I have tried…

I have tried many times to read the future but besides the clear reading that it will be a great one, there is nothing more specific. I seek to read tommorrow so I can plan adequately for it, but I guess I have to give up my search for specifics and go to work with […]

Abandon TALK and begin TO DO!

Nigeria is beset by many challenges…far too numerous to enumerate here (and allow me to modestly say anywhere else). However, many have perfected the art and science of TALKING and doing nothing! Look, at the newspaper vendor stand, members of the free readers association will explain quite succinctly why we have problems in this country […]

Vanguard online:First public high school web portal for Niger State

By Emeka Aginam   (04 March 2009) Originally posted here.  A batch A 2008 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Mr. Oluwakorede Asuni   has successfully launched the first public high school web portal in Niger State – www.GovernmentSecondarySchoolMX.org.  The system, which was created for the Government Secondary School Minna Niger State, where Mr. Asuni is […]

Today, me and Ugo

What a title… Hung out most of the day with my buddy Ugochukwu Nwosu and realised how much I miss working at PIN (www.pinigeria.org) and especially with Ugo and the man we all call Gs and respect so much (though sometimes he jokes we do not). I travelled with him to Ajegunle where he met […]

Exeperiences and mussings of a classroom teacher*

I teach Mathematics at the Government Secondary School Minna. It has been for me a mixed experience, but by and large I enjoy my work. Seeing the curious faces of these young men who form two groups of people I interact with daily in the class room for most of the passing year, light up […]

A concerned youth’s reaction to the murder of 3 youth corps members in Plateau State

Originally penned by Oluwakorede Asuni on the 4th of December, 2008 The callousness of the murder of three young Nigerians in cold blood while completing the compulsory national assignment (National Youth Service)in Jos, is a general testimony to the cruelty of man and the particular crudeness of our polity in Nigeria – politics of bitterness. […]

JAMB is 30, will she survive another thirty?

A few days ago the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) the examination body conducting entry examinations into tertiary institutions in Nigeria (except for the NDA-Nigeria Defence Academy) struck thirty years. Thirty years of mixed achievements. In the thirty years of her existence she had moved from organising the most ‘cheated in’ tests to one […]