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 […]
APC/PDP: Criminal or terrorist organisations? By Ochereome Nnanna
A Canadian Federal Court presided over by Justice Phuong Ngo, recently declared our former and incumbent ruling political parties – Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC – “terrorist organisations”. This has kept many of us talking. The Presidency, APC and PDP have reacted temperamentally. Indeed, a Foreign Affairs Ministry’s spokesman demanded a “retraction” […]
Finally, the NCC has a Board, by Okoh Aihe
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, gets a Board at last. That is good news. There have been tons of materials written on the need for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to set up a Board for the regulatory agency which has its functions cast in the Act of the Commission to initiate policies that can shape the […]
Fifty years of Gowon’s overthrow(7), by Eric Teniola
From last week, this is the concluding narrative of General Yakubu Gowon’s many landmark achievements before his overthrow on July 30, 1975. These included the establishment of many companies with significant Federal Government shareholdings as well as the promulgation of the Indigenisation Decree. Also worthy of mention is the setting up of the National Youth Service […]
Northern Governors on the spot, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost”— African proverb. Perhaps it was inevitable, but the tide of negative public opinion on Northern Governors has been rising at a pace that should worry them. The reality is that more articulate and influential voices are being raised against their performance and commitment to […]
Paradoxes of Nigeria’s crude oil and fuel sector
By Dele Sobowale “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress” – Niels Bohr, 1885-11962 Bohr, a Danish Nobel Prize Winner in Physics was one of the leaders in unraveling the mysteries of quantum theory. Along the line, he discovered that atoms don’t act in predictable […]
