TIRMS, which is an acronym for Telecoms Identity Risk Management System, has hardly enjoyed any special attention in the daily discourse of telecom regulation. Not even a sustained mention until the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, introduced it into the telecom lexicon last week.  Much unlike other regulatory measures – like a huge telecom license fee, a […]

By Esther Onyegbula THE League of Women Voters of Nigeria, NILOWV, Lagos Chapter, Kosofe Constituency, has intensified its advocacy for the passage of the Special Seats for Women Bill, calling for urgent legislative action to address gender imbalance in Nigeria’s political space. The group, during a peaceful demonstration in Kosofe Constituency, said the proposed bill […]

It has frequently happened across different parts of the North that new reports of similar incidents are simply being treated as pieces of information to be noted for whatever it is worth by whoever finds it useful while life goes on in the rest of the country. But cases of terrorists’ attacks are not mere incidents […]

Some weeks ago, activist Omoyele Sowore, joined a group of protesters in Aba, the commercial heart of Abia State, to call for the release of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. His presence and those of other non-Igbo elements were highly appreciated. But he threw that visit into a cloud with the tag […]

“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone”—   Paul Valéry To do justice to the life and times of so illustrious a personality as the late Alhaji Ado Bayero, CFR, Emir of Kano, would require the pen and erudition of historians of the calibre of Ibn Khaldun, Edward Gibbon […]