By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa YENAGOA — Stakeholders at the Bayelsa Infrastructure Rebirth 2.0 Breakfast Roundtable have endorsed Governor Douye Diri’s infrastructure development agenda and called for sustained investment in critical projects as well as stronger measures to protect public assets from vandalism. The position was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the […]

Onjeh maintained that the perpetrators of both the initial killing and subsequent reprisal attacks must face justice.

In the past decade, Nigeria’s name has become increasingly associated with crime, insecurity, and institutional decay, at home and abroad. Official corruption, weak institutions, terrorism, banditry, and the routine kidnapping of schoolchildren for ransom have normalised a national crisis that has eroded public trust and damaged the country’s global standing. The crimes not only persist; […]

By Elizabeth Osayande Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Coalition, NDC, in the forthcoming general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the Federal Government’s suspension of the newly introduced ₦50,000 examination fees for the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and the National Examinations Council, NECO, as “a victory for the Nigerian people”. Obi stated this […]

I did not expect my column ‘When uneducated minds change the education system’ to attract so much reaction. A parent said that in my review of the new education curriculum imposed in September 2025, I did not draw sufficient attention to some facts. The most fundamental, she said, is that government imposed new trade subjects on the […]

Just 18 minutes after it was posted online by a national paper last Friday, I saw a breaking news story saying that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had officially renominated Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the 2027 election. The story was a pleasant surprise for me because I had earlier decided I was going […]

One relative, Fausat Akindele, said the incident had permanently changed many parents’ perception of the schools’ safety.

By ODUNAYO SANYA Leadership, in its truest essence, is not about the titles we hold or the executive seats we occupy; it is about the responsibility we assume for the future of our communities. According to John Maxwell, a leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way. As we commemorate World […]

By Godwin Oritse THE Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators Committee, LASTCOC, has reacted to a viral video of an attack on a truck that came under attack recently by suspected extortionists saying that “incident involved two seemingly respectable citizens who allegedly had a third-party liability dispute with the truck.” In a statement by the […]

This year’s Convocation Ceremony of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, will enjoy a tinge of uncommon international flavour as two foreign universities, Trinity Western University, Canada, and Trinity International University, USA, will be conferring on ABUAD’s Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, OFR, CON, SAN, their Honoury Doctor of Laws Degrees on October 21, 2026. This was […]