A few days ago, a house officer slumped in church and died. The immediate cause of death hasn’t been established but a well-dispersed anonymous letter sent alarm bells ringing. The letter said Dr Michael Umoh was worked to death. Embarrassed by the letter, the hospital jumped into crisis management mode to deny culpability and whitewash […]

Now Soyinka isn’t bothered about the commitment the electoral umpire gave the youths. Soyinka appears more interested in the sideshow and what some Sea dogs told him about who came third and fourth in the elections.

President Tinubu owes the nation a duty to explain the legality and morality of the prolonged detention of the EFCC chairman without trial. If an EFCC chairman can be so casually picked up and incarcerated, then what is the fate of political opponents and everyday people?

The noise has started. Rather than embrace sobriety, they have begun with talkativeness. Unfortunately, the public is no longer so impressionable. The economic situation is dire and deft footwork of political chancery cannot bring succour. Politicians who had 8 years at the state level to reduce poverty but chose sensationalism are now proselytising like development […]

The tragic case of Dr Vwaere Diaso doesn’t even tell the story. The rot is malignant. After the cheap elevator collapsed, the young lady couldn’t be extracted for almost an hour. This accident happened in the heart of Lagos, the country’s centre of excellence. When the fractured doctor arrived at the surgical table, the monitors […]

How can a government that removed petrol subsidies and begged the poor to bear with it, proceed to appoint 11 more ministers than we had in 2015?  

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo A young man was appointed the head of the FRSC at 36. At that age, and without many years of executive experience, his appointment could have been deemed unmerited. He assumed the position and started a digital modernization of the agency, becoming proof that for public institutions, drive and vision were […]

Jagaban had promised to surpass his feat in Lagos. We have now seen his ministers.  He deserves the benefit of the doubt. Because when the biblical David set out to rescue Israel, he had gathered some of the most despicable people and reformed them. Amongst his army were rogues, pickpockets and morally bankrupt drunkards. The […]

The government has used the surgical blade on the public but has done nothing to trim government profligacy, gluttony and vanity. Tinubu must circumscribe his government.

Benue has become accustomed to massacres. Brothers fight brothers to death in communal clashes. Mercenaries and militants come in to mediate between farmers and herders and liquidate entire families and villages