Heads of states and governments on Wednesday gathered in New York as part of UN General Assembly to discuss reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent. UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level meeting at UN headquarters that two decades after a landmark Declaration was adopted to eradicate racism, it had continued […]

CONTRARY to fears that the Muhammadu Buhari administration was set to declare an all-out, genocidal war in the South East, the security forces appear to have applied a less kinetic approach which is reducing the high-level insecurity in the geopolitical zone. In June, the president had raised tensions when he granted a rare interview to […]

The Southern and Middle Belt Alliance (SaMBA) has condemned a statement credited to the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed boasting that northern Nigeria will retain the presidency in 2023 because they have the numbers to lead Nigeria in perpetuity.

The former commissioner for education under the former governor of the state Abdulaziz Yari Sanda Muhammad Wednesday said that, the security measures taken in Zamfara state by governor Bello Mattawale to stop or degrade armed banditry is yielding positive results.

By Olu Fasan  THE death of Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and a prolific columnist for this newspaper and many others, hit me like a thunderbolt. “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity”, my mind went to the common refrain in Ecclesiastes. How else would one describe a […]