In one interview which dwelt on the subject of the 1985 overthrow of the military government he led, orchestrated by members of the inner circle of that government, Muhamadu Buhari claimed that some of the actions undertaken in his name, like the invasion of the home of the politician Mr. Obafemi Awolowo in Apapa in 1984, were carried out without his knowledge or authorization. Some of those actions undermined his government and lost him significant political capital among the Nigerian population.

Though it is still a long way from 2018 when Ekiti people will choose who will be their next governor, the political landscape is beginning to wear an apparel of seriousness as contenders to the state’s number one seat are beginning to show their faces.

The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arraigned two suspected smugglers at the Magistrate Court, Ikeja, Lagos State on nine-count charge of smuggling prohibited items into the country against government’s policy to grow local industries, and inciting a mob attack against operatives on duty.

19th October, 2016 marked the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Dele Giwa, the Editor-In-Chief and founding member of Newswatch, the eponymous newsmagazine. Thirty years on, the person or persons unknown that carried out this dastardly and cowardly crime remain at large. The truth, no matter how long will eventually out. One day, it will happen but it will not matter. We know what happened: a good man died that day. A man on top of his profession ladder was cruelly killed because he dared to tell the truth.

Barely 72 hours after turning herself into the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Federal Judge, Rita Ofili-Ajimogobia, may face the full weight of the law for alleged corrupt practices.

The same Justice Brandeis had been credited with saying that “Difficult cases make bad law.” The raid on the houses of Justices last weekend is perhaps the most difficult case most Nigerians have ever had to comment upon. For me, it was a heart-breaker – the sort of thing you wish would never happen. Yet, you also know that unless the veil of secrecy covering corruption in the judiciary is lifted, there will not be much progress on corruption elsewhere. Unless Nigerian courts, once again, become the hope of the common man we will get nowhere.

In 1861, when the British sought to annex Lagos, they sought the consent of the Oba of Benin who used the territory as Eko meaning camp for his many expeditions to conquer towns and villages which made the Benin Empire exceedingly large. The empire reportedly stretched from Onitsha in the east, through Owo, Akure and some Yoruba settlements in the southwest and into present-day Ghana.

The adverse socio-economic situation in the country has driven 53-year-old Alice Madumere Chikezie, a mass communication graduate from Lagos State University,LASU, into welding.

This may sound; like a fiction. But it is a real story. Just in 21 days, 56 libraries and eight ICT labs were established, 10 classrooms were constructed, and four online learning platforms created, in 22 countries across Africa and the Middle East, by 10 450 volunteers.

Less than 48 hours after suspected gang members of the wanted militant leader, Terwase Agwaza, alias Gana, gunned down five persons, including an 85-year old woman in Tor Donga area of Katsina/Ala local government Area of Benue State, gunmen, yesterday, engaged the Joint Security Task Force, JTF, in a duel leading to the death of two of the gunmen.