President Bola Tinubu last week handed over the affairs of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to his successor, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, with obvious sigh of relief after his two-year tenure. Under him, the Community split in two, with Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger moving away to form the […]

It is a common sight in major cities of Nigeria to see young men pushing wheel barrows stocked with gallons in search of water as access to potable water remains a major challenge for majority of city dwellers.  Most city dwellers today rely on private water vendors and boreholes to meet their domestic needs.  Those […]

Mokwa and other nearby communities in Niger State are still bleeding profusely from the flood disaster of May 28, 2025, which took about 200 lives (with about 500 still missing), demolished 265 homes, damaged 3,000 others and rendered over 5,000 individuals refugees in their home towns. This tragedy could have been avoided if our governments […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP’s, call on President Bola Tinubu to bring the instigators of the June 12, 1993 presidential election annulment to justice is very thought-provoking. A recent statement by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, called for the investigation and prosecution of those found culpable regardless of their current political affiliation. This call […]

Weeks after the arrest of 41 suspects in connection with the gruesome killing of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Rano Division Police Station, Kano State, CSP Baba Ali, nothing has been heard of their arraignment. The late officer was killed when one Abdullahi Musa, a motorcycle mechanic, was arrested for alleged reckless and dangerous riding. He […]

Infiltration and sabotage are the main sustainers of the insecurity that is threatening to sink Nigeria as we know it. This threat presents three broad forms: Boko Haram/ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen terrorists and bandits. While Boko Haram/ ISWAP are unpretentious about their jihadist ideology, the herdsmen and bandit terrorists also operate with the same style. They […]

We strongly believe that the declaration of a state of emergency in a state should not involve the removal of democratically-elected structures. Under the 1999 Constitution, no part of the country is to be governed except as prescribed by the Constitution. Section 305 which empowers the President to declare emergency has no provision for the […]

It is important to remind all elected or appointed holders of lofty political offices that, irrespective of how high those offices are, they are there to “serve”, not “rule”. Nigeria is a republic; a democracy, not a monarchy or any form of absolute dictatorship whereby the “ruler” and his courtiers do whatever they like without […]

Rather than the increasingly lifeless activities that defined our Democracy Day celebrations in the past, President Bola Tinubu’s administration decided to give the 2025 edition a tweak that garbed the 26-year-old occasion in more befitting robes. He cancelled the military parades that used to go with it and instead chose to address the National Assembly […]

The apparent inability of our armed and security forces to defend the territorial integrity of Nigeria and protect its citizens from multifaceted security threats has prompted heightened calls for the engagement of foreign military contractors to help. Highly ranked Senator, Ali Ndume (APC Borno South), whose constituency is the epicentre of the 16-year-old Boko Haram […]