THE dust has yet to settle on the outrage sparked by the illegal arrest, detention and torture of a newspaper editor, Segun Olatunji, over a report published in the FirstNews online newspaper. The military only let Olatunji go after frontline media and civil society interest groups started asking questions. On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in […]

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By BANJI OJEWALE IN 1976, the military regime of Olusegun Obasanjo sought to stir the patriotic instincts of our young citizens by decreeing the National Pledge into our lives. It must be recited in all Nigerian schools, the junta said. The General’s martial mind given to governing by fiat and force led him through only one […]

THE National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, kicked, as a Kano High Court affirmed the suspension of its National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje.

A nation is civilised not because of its aesthetic, its beautiful architecture. Rather, a nation is civilised because of how it treats its citizens, because of the duration and quality of life of its citizens. That’s why social security or safety net for the poor is a badge of the heathy society. However, Nigeria creates billionaires […]