By Tonnie Iredia It is not out of place for every nation to, at the end of every year, identify and celebrate her heroes and the year’s special events. For this column, there is no better time to do so than the last Sunday of the year which naturally features the last article of the […]

By Tonnie Iredia One clear gain of the return to democracy in Nigeria in 1999, is the telecommunication reforms of the Obasanjo years – a commendable policy that enabled our people to make telephone calls with ample ease. There is doubt if any other sector in the country has made as much progress as telecommunication. […]

By Tonnie Iredia Police authorities in Nigeria have no doubt learnt some lessons from the massive destructions to their formations in many locations following the recent #EndSARS protests in the country. Police operatives, many of them arguably innocent of what caused the protests were greatly traumatized. According to Mohammed Adamu, the current Inspector General of […]

By Tonnie Iredia As a youth, I looked forward to becoming a great television news reporter though I could hardly decipher what the motivation was. Understandably, I didn’t hesitate to seize the opportunity in the early 70s to join the Midwest Television,  now NTA Benin, as a reporter. As record shows, I remained in the […]

By Tonnie Iredia For the first time in Nigeria’s recent political history, the Senate of the Federal Republic appears to have placed commensurate premium on the importance of screening nominees of the President for certain positions. The assignment is indeed crucial because it is a constitutional requirement which is designed to ensure that any such […]