The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, has expressed deep sadness over the chaos that has engulfed both chambers of the National Assembly recently over issues bordering on sharing of principal...
Current Affairs
Overhaul Presidency, Inject Fresh Blood, Seadogs Tell Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised by the National Association of Seadogs to take urgent steps to dismantle the bureaucracy in the Presidency so as to bring in new persons with fresh ideas and orientation. The...
Ethnicity’s Persisting Divisiveness – Restrictions on Nigeria’s Political Development
Yet another testing general election confronts Nigerians on 28 March and 11 April 2015. These elections, at which we Nigerians will select our elected leaders, represent a significant milestone in the continuing...
Addressing Nigeria’s Electricity Deficits – The Embedded Generation Model
As the elections draw closer, the availability of electricity, behind the economy and corruption remains the three most engaging issues upon which Nigerians continue to seek leadership direction and end-product. Much...
We’re breeding illiterates
A cursory look at the education sector in our country would reveal that things are not going on smoothly there at all. With protests by universities students over increase in school fees, a nearly one-year old strike...
Lending the NAS Voice to the #BringBackOurGirls Campaign
Dear sisters, brothers and friends, We are all ware of the abduction of 234female secondary school pupils from Chibok in Bornu State by Boko Haram. We know that the girls who were taken into the dreaded Sambisa forest...
The Sexual Minority and Legislative Zealotry
By Prof. Wole Soyinka Let us go back a little, nearly a year ago, to that earlier attempt to interfere in, and legislate on sexual conduct between consenting adults. Profiting from that experience, I would like to...
INCESSANT ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU) STRIKES – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
The choice of topic creates the erroneous impression that the fault for the incessant labor strikes that have bedeviled Nigeria’s Tertiary Institutions and thus stymied the educational system is attributable to...
Nigeria Now Among 34 Most Corrupt Countries
Nigeria Now Among 34 Most Corrupt Countries By: Bode Gbadebo on December 4, 2013 - 3:30am The Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for 2013 has revealed that Nigeria is among the 34 most...
World AIDS Day 2013: Getting to Zero
World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. World AIDS Day elucidates on the epidemic and historically was one of the...
Convoys, sirens and the tragedy of recklessness
Festus Iyayi was, by every account, a truly exceptional Nigerian. University lecturer and activist, he was, between 1986 to 1988, the leader of the labour union entity known as the Academic Staff Union of Universities...
Value System For Societal Development
Text of a Lecture Delivered at the 2012 Umalokun Memorial Lecture, Organised by National Association of Seadogs, at Olori Motel, Ughelli, Delta State on Saturday, 15th December, 2012. By Prof. Temi Akporhonor, JP Dean,...
 
				



