Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
DSS’s improved public image
In a few days, the administration of Oluwatosin Ajayi in the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, will clock one year. The Director General was appointed on Monday, August 26, 2024. He took over from Yusuf Bichi, whom President Bola Tinubu inherited from the regime of the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Its core mandates include […]
Gov Bago’s Badeggi Radio closure
Governor Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State committed a major blunder on Thursday, July 31, 2025, when he ordered the immediate shut-down of Badeggi Radio 90.1 FM based in Minna, the state capital. He accused the station of inciting the public and promoting violence against his government. He also ordered the seizure of the station’s […]
KWAM1’s disturbing airport drama
Fuji musician, “King” Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, KWAM1, was last week Wednesday embroiled in a Nollywood-like drama that baffled many at the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAIA. In a viral video, he was seen in front of a Lagos-bound, departure-ready Value Jet aircraft, arguing with some officials. The aircraft suddenly moved, almost with a […]
Out-of-school children: North must take responsibility
Northern elite sang discordant tunes at a recent public forum over the humongous number of “Out-Of-School Children, OOSC”. Nigeria holds the unenviable record of harbouring the highest number of OOSC in the world (about 20 million), and the North produces over 80 per cent of them. At the Government-Citizen Engagement Forum held in Kaduna on […]
Avoiding bridge collapses
It came as a massive relief over the weekend when the Nasarawa State Government debunked reports of the collapse of the main flyover bridge in Lafia, the state capital. According to them the bridge, which was recently commissioned by President Bola Tinubu, cost N16bn. In a statement, the government said the videos depicting the live […]
Saving health sector from turmoil
The Nigerian public health sector is currently enveloped in a morass of mass actions by service providers, especially trade unions of doctors and nurses. This has become an embarrassing annual ritual due to the failure of Federal and State governments to comprehensively address the welfare concerns of the workers. Caving to pressure from highly placed […]
Anti-Nigeria protests in Ghana
Anti-Nigeria sentiments by disgruntled Ghanaians which have been brewing in social media erupted last week into organised street protests in major Ghanaian towns like Accra…
Celebrating our Super Falcons
Super Falcons of Nigeria, Saturday night in Rabat, reaffirmed their position as the most successful women’s football team in Africa as they lifted the new-look Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON,…
Tackling plastic pollution in Lagos
It is no secret that Lagos and Nigeria in general are grappling with a plastic pollution crisis. Drainage channels choked with plastic bags and Styrofoam packs are a common sight,
Yet more flood warnings
Federal Government has issued yet another urgent warning about imminent floods that could endanger lives and property…
