A ‘good’ bed space will cost you 250,000 naira at the KiriKiri maximum prison. This was the price before the fall of the naira. Your options are few. You could be kept in the condemned prisoners cell. There, you will meet a leaking bucket of urine and faeces in a room meant for one occupied by eight. 

The President must address firmly, the various killings around the country

THEY say there’s no going   back on the decision to close the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja for six weeks, starting March 8.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, a group of Nigerian public commentators, intellectuals, activists and writers wrote an open letter in which they expressed – to President Muhammadu Buhari – deep concern over “what appears to be an increase in harassment by security services of journalists going about their work.”

IT had been a hard choice; Africa electing a new chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) to run the continental body. The option had been forced on her after the chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former liberation fighter from South Africa resisted pressures to stand for a second term; opting to contest the Presidential elections in her country.