Widespread violence is a national nightmare that threatens everyone in Nigeria.

Crises and extreme threats can be useful for directing individuals, a country, and even the world to a solution

ATTEMPTS by the Governor Kayode Fayemi Peace Committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to mend the cracks in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, especially the alleged rancour between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, have collapsed.   

A retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army with over 30 years of active service to his credit, including being the Africa Regional Chief Security Advisor for ASL International; Head, Training Division, Army Peacekeeping Centre and Chief of Staff (Brigade level), with operational responsibility over several joint security platforms, serving as the hub for coordination and implementation, Hassan Stan-Labo, led a group of security experts and non-governmental organisations on a week-long visit to the North-East to assess the fight by the military against Boko Haram and other elements of insurgency there. Stan-Labo speaks about what the team saw

VICE President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who has been consultating with monarchs on ways out of the security challenges currently confronting Nigeria recently took the gospel to the Church where he enjoined Christians to love and pray for their enemies, including insurgents, saying it is the only way to change them.

A former Chairman of Agriculture, Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, Prince Wale Oyekoya, in this interview, says Nigeria has viable policies that could uplift the agriculture sector in next four years but insisted that proper monitoring of the implementation is required to achieve results. Among other issues, he argues that an end to mismanagement of intervention funds would largely determine the level of success to be recorded. 

With empirical data from reputable international and national institutions, stating that little or no gains were made in critical sectors in the last four years, there is no denying that     Nigeria needs different outcomes this time.  As enunciated by a Public Administration scholar and ex-public sector specialist by the World Bank Expert, Professor Ladipo Adamolekun, in an interview with Sunday Vanguard, the poor growth statistics are not only freighting but also have multidimensional consequences.

Nigeria’s 750 list of delegates to the 12th All Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco continues to generate outrage in Abuja.

IN the sight of God, the most important arms of Government in power, are the higher powers, and these higher powers are the magistrates and judges, hence every soul is commanded to be subject to all magistrates and judges, because they are ordained of God, as written in Romans 13:1: “Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God.”

Instead of working with the intelligence, Ironsi brought my father before the Supreme Military Council and asked him to repeat what he told him