AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

The new law just passed by the Imo State government that has got people talking is one that has drawn my attention today. Termed the Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2020, that piece of legislation is one awful and needless addendum to our existing body of laws that needed to be vociferously condemned. Ostensibly and for the start, the people ordinarily provoked by such senselessness has given it the needed diatribe. But this condemnation must be taken further beyond the surface layer of criticism to its deeper layer of outburst that sends a clear message that this bill of a law is not just welcomed but smacks of a mundane dereliction to ludicrous childish postulation and so much backward. The so-called law is an element of such puerile senselessness of a huge magnitude that deserves to be roundly and vehemently condemned. The angst that should be shone towards it should speak in such manner as "what do these people take us for?" Indeed, that law is a statement of how t...

IT IS indeed with a huge sense of dole that I write this piece, which itself is a contribution to the raging issue of sex for grade that had become part of our University system and which recently seemed a magnified concern. The BBC documentary on the issue by Kiki Mordi happened to highlight the concern of sexual harassment on female students happening in some selected varsities in Ghana and Nigeria, but that on its own was just a tip of the debauchery perpetrated by lecturers in every high institution of learning in this country. The incidences of favor for grades has become so prevalent nowadays that continuously they have begun to rob value off our educational system and the certificates it confers. Certificates ordinarily are the culminating reflection of the educational value of a student; they are  the concise description of the academic worth of any student presented in a single material. Certificates are such that they do not define the processes towards the feat their bea...