NYSC kidnap story: Burden of public trust, by Tonnie Iredia
Twenty (20) prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on their way to the Southeast for orientation and service year were kidnapped on October 1, 2026. Following their release some 6 days later, our traumatized country was greatly relieved. A report by the Imo state police command claimed that the corpers were rescued […]
2019 re-election bait and related issues
Since the return of General Buhari in good health last year the political atmosphere has been revving up ahead of the mother of all battles in 2019.
Carlos: For the Palestinian cause, he remains in jail
THE 69-year-old Venezuelan internationalist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, rechristened ‘Carlos the Jackal’ by the media, was in the French courts last week to challenge his conviction for life. The case he appealed against was a 1974 one in which a grenade tossed in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Pres, (Champs Elysee Avenue) killed two persons at the Drugstore Publicis while 36 were injured. His conviction on this charge, is lacking in hard evidence including fingerprints and DNA. Rather, it is driven more by circumstantial evidence and supposition.
Three days with The Oranmiyan (2)
No matter how prejudiced you are against the man you cannot fail to apprehend a conscious effort by one man to reason differently, to govern sincerely and to apply systemically
Ruled by jokers
Idris said there was no evidence of murder. Case closed. Barely ten weeks later, he was given multiple and accelerated promotions from COP to IGP
Can we save Lake Chad?
What is instructive about the efforts to save the lake is that the matter has now gone international
