Ogaga Ifowodo

Posted: September 23, 2010 - 01:01
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Ogaga Ifowodo

Ogaga Ifowodo, Ph.D teaches poetry and literature at Texas State University-San Marcos in the United States.

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Paying The Police A Livable Minimum Wage By Ogaga Ifowodo
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, wants to raise the entry point salary in the force from N28,000 to N100,000. He is proposing the increase as part of his effort to reform a...
What Must The Law-Abiding Masses Do To Be Heard By Jonathan? By Ogaga Ifowodo
What do the Nigerian people have to do to be heard by their government?
Boko Haram’s Two-State Solution To Nigeria By Ogaga Ifowodo
Even before the offer of amnesty was made, it was rejected out of hand. In words dripping with scorn and disdain for constitutions and the rule of law, two leaders of the terrorist group Jamā'a...
Chinua Achebe: The Novelist as Revolutionary By Ogaga Ifowodo
Chinua Achebe’s stoic and gradualist approach to life was evident not only in his unhurried diction and surgically measured prose but also in the kind of solutions he proffered to the vexing...
Yes, I Pardoned A Serial Treasury Looter But What Can You Do About It? By Ogaga Ifowodo
Presumably, President Jonathan and the members of the National Council of State who granted a state pardon for the convicted former governor of Bayelsa State, D. S. P. Alamieyeseigha, are aware of...
The Transmogrification Of Confraternities Into Violent Secret Cults In Nigerian Universities By Ogaga Ifowodo
Being Text of a Lecture Delivered on 8 January 2013 in Oleh, Delta State, under the auspices of the Solomon Ogba Peace Group in Collaboration with Flomat Books
A President and His Lady Lazarus By Ogaga Ifowodo
Speaking at last of her hitherto ultra-secret six-week “rest” in Germany, Mrs Patience Jonathan, not known for nuance or circumspection, made a direct comparison to the biblical Lazarus...
Authority Stealing Pass Armed Robbery By Ogaga Ifowodo
I owe the title of this column to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s classic song of outrage, and call to action, against the living evil of corruption threatening to throttle Nigeria to death.  If you...
A Case For Punishing Corruption As Armed Robbery By Ogaga Ifowodo
As the world moves away from capital punishment, Nigeria, always to be found in the rear-guard of progress, has embraced it with renewed vigour. Recently, the House of Representatives, that august...
Ekwe And The Raging Army Of God’s Protectors By Ogaga Ifowodo
The omens remain frightful regarding what awaits us this year in the moral conscience arena of our ever more degenerate social landscape. On Monday, 14 January, a holy mob in Ekwe, a village in Isu...
How To Say Happy Birthday To A Governor’s Wife By Ogaga Ifowodo
Mrs. Obioma Imoke is 50 years old and I wish her well, just as I wish all the fellow citizens who marked their golden anniversary on earth that same day. Mrs. Imoke is the wife of the governor of...
A Mansion To Match “The Personality” Of Our Homeless Vice President By Ogaga Ifowodo
You wish to Allah the Merciful that what you heard about the request for an additional N9 billion for the construction of a brand new mansion for the Vice President is not true, that you had just...