Law Mefor, Author at The News Chronicle

A TALE OF TWO REGISTRARS AND IMPUNITY AT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH REGISTRATION COUNCIL

Law Mefor Mar 02, 2021

The canons of public service and statecraft have been constantly assailed by those entrusted with the custody and the nation can only be the worse for it. It is this culture of impunity that is breeding corruption and insecurity in the land. Some public officials have become law unto themselves everywhere you turn, precisely the […]

WHY JOE NWORGU SHOULD REPLACE NNIA NWODO AS OHANAEZE PRESIDENT GENERAL

Law Mefor Dec 11, 2020

From all indications and barring any surprise last minute entry, here are the aspirants seeking the seat of Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the incumbent President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. The General Election of the apex pan-Igbo organization comes up in January, 2021. So far, the Ohanaeze presidential hopefuls are: Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, Prof George […]

DR. LAW MEFOR BURIES MOTHER JAN. 5TH

Law Mefor Dec 01, 2020

The family of the Late David Chigbogu Okafor-Mefor of Umudunu Agbaja Abatete, Idemili North LGA, Anambra State, has announced in a statement by Dr. Law Mefor for the family and released in Abuja, the passing of their matriarch, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, mother-in-law and aunt, Mrs. Celina Ifesinachi Okafor-Mefor (aka Nneokwukwe, London, Ononaenyi). She […]

2023: Dr.Goodluck Jonathan Not Qualified To Contest

Law Mefor Nov 25, 2020

A political thinker posited that politics is a concentric circle of conspiracies. It is such a conspiratorial game that while statesmen worry about development to cater for the present and coming generations, politicians are busy scheming how to retain power, return to power, or gain power. Nigerian politicians could pass as the worst hue to […]

A LETTER TO NDIGBO ON VOTING STRENGTH AND IGBO QUEST FOR 2023 NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY

Law Mefor Nov 14, 2020

My people, The urgent need for Ndigbo of voting age to all register and be ready to vote if indeed we are serious about producing the Nigerian President in 2023 provided the motivation for writing you this letter. This is now an idea whose time has come. After the end of the Nigeria-Biafra Civil war […]

GOV DAVE UMAHI’S DEFECTION AND SOME TROUBLING ISSUES AROUND IT

Law Mefor Nov 12, 2020

This Tuesday, Engr. Dave Nweze Umahi, the PDP governor of Ebonyi State, told his party leadership that paid him a courtesy visit that he was heading to the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. That ended the speculation that the Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum was defecting from his party to another. Governor […]

MARCEL OFOMATA, HIS UNN RESEARCH CENTRE AND EDUCATION FUNDING IN NIGERIA

Law Mefor Nov 06, 2020

The 4th day of October, 2020, will go down in the history of University of Nigeria Nsukka, as a day the apex citadel of learning witnessed a major intervention in addressing its infrastructure deficits. It was the day the groundbreaking for the building of an ultramodern International Research Centre donated by the Marcel Ofomata Foundation […]

PROF. GODSWILL OBIOMA: A REFORMER BERTHS AT NECO

Law Mefor Oct 14, 2020

One was rounding off graduate education at the University Jos when Godswill Obioma was appointed a professor of Mathematics education at a record age of 38. Then, there were students in their 30s still pursuing an undergraduate education in the same institution. So, emerging a professor in his thirties was a stunning achievement, which endeared […]

The Northernisation of PenCom: A Constitutional Breach?

Law Mefor Oct 04, 2020

The nomination of the Acting Director-General (DG) of the National Pension Commission, PenCom, Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar, by President Muhammadu Buhari for a substantive five-year term, after serving in acting capacity for almost four years, has expectedly not gone down well with a cross section of Nigerians. They not only see the effrontery as yet another […]

NIGERIA AT 60: WHY NATION IS STILL AT CROSSROADS

Law Mefor Oct 01, 2020

‘Comme ci comme ça’ (the French expression for ‘neither good nor bad’; ‘so so’; ‘tolerable’, ‘passable’) may well be the best way to describe Nigeria at 60. Sixty years in the life of a person may be a big deal but for a nation, it is not that much. For a person, sixty years is […]

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