By Joseph Erunke THE Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has redeployed a total of 36 Air Vice Marshals, AVMs, and 40 Air Commodores (Air Cdres). The redeployed officers included some Branch Chiefs, Air Officers Commanding (AOCs), Commandants of Tri-Service Institutions, Directors and Commanders. The service, in a statement by its spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Wednesday […]

Worried over the huge investment the West is putting into the campaign on abortion as a guise to fighting overpopulation, guest speakers at the 2019 Catholic Men Organization, CMO, Lekki Deanery, Family Day celebration have called on Nigerians and the entire black race to protect their cultural heritage and value the family.

The recent dramatic performance of the Professors that testified before the American House of Representatives Judicial Committee on what constituted impeachment offense as captured by the framers of the American constitution is instructive on how academicians could fundamentally differ genuinely or hide under the carapace of selective intellectual excursions to arrive at fraudulent intellectual conclusions! Mr Emwanta’s opinion on Law and Human Rights column titled “Thoughts on the binding judicial precedent on vacant legislative seats”, published on Thursday 19th December 2019 particularly  on page 28 of the Vangaurd newspaper, squarely fall in the latter category.

Nigeria, like the rest of the world, enters a new decade this new year, 2020; it’s the decade of the twenties!How Nigeria starts the new decade, that is, how it performs this year, will tell us how it might end it in 2029. But the omens are not good. Truth is, the preceding decade, from 2010 to 2019, was an utterly wasted one; indeed, a lost decade for Nigeria! Yet, nothing in the behaviour or the mindset of Nigeria’s leaders suggests they are willing to stop the institutional sclerosis that has gripped this country and stunted its progress. It is therefore very unlikely that Nigeria will finish the new decade better than it did the last!

TO many Nigerians, 2019 was not a year they shall look back with undiluted pleasure just like the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, moaned on November 24, 1992. It was their own annus horribilis (horrible year), just like 1992 was for the Queen.