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 […]
Rivers also needs “Lagos Treatment”
President Bola Tinubu is expected to bring his “magic touch” to fix the Rivers State political crisis just as he did in dousing the heat rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Attention, ECOWAS standby force
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, under the leadership of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, is moving forward with the recent establishment of the 5,000-strong ECOWAS Standby Force. By so doing, the ECOWAS has proved once again to be one of the most active regional bodies in the world. It has moved ahead of […]
Year of paradigm shift at PAP
The establishment of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, was the magic wand with which the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua peacefully ended militancy in the Niger Delta in 2009. It forever endeared him to the people of the region. The programme was designed to provide the framework for disarmament and reintegration of ex-militants. It offered […]
Africa must end aid dependency
One of the greatest signposts of shame on the face of Africa is the dependency of most of its member nations on foreign aids. Unfortunately, Nigeria, the much touted “giant of Africa”, is one of them. Evidence of this was the recent provision of N700 billion by President Bola Tinubu to cover for the scrapping […]
On invasion of IKEDC by Air Force men
Rogue elements of Nigeria’s uniformed forces have formed the habit of taking the law into their hands at the slightest provocation. They portray our armed forces as threats, rather than protectors of society. Last week Thursday, some Air Force personnel from the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, stormed the headquarters of the Ikeja Electric […]
Ending the Russia-Ukraine war
On February 24, 2022, Russia commenced the military invasion of its western neighbour, Ukraine. After three years of intense hostilities, both countries are literally bleeding all over. Actual numbers of dead and wounded are difficult to pin down amidst war propaganda. It is believed that both sides have suffered hundreds of thousands of military and […]
Immortalising Prof Humphrey Nwosu
The calls from various quarters for the immortalisation of Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, NEC, which mid-wifed the acclaimed freest, fairest and most peaceful election in Nigeria’s history, should appeal to us as something to identify with. Gradually, even if sometimes reluctantly, successive regimes, major players and concerned political interest […]
Actualising Ibom Deep Sea Port
Efforts by successive Akwa Ibom State administrations to actualise the construction of a deep seaport have continued to hit the proverbial brick wall. Akwa Ibom is a littoral state, with a shoreline that sits on some of the deepest portions of the Nigerian continental shelf. In 1999 when the government of former Governor Victor Attah, […]
Exit of Sahel republics from ECOWAS
The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats Sahel, AES, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a big blow to Africa’s best known regional organisation. Coming on the 50th anniversary of ECOWAS which is built on the protocols of free movement of people and goods without […]
Tinubu’s deadline to end insecurity
President Bola Tinubu’s December 2025 deadline for the armed forces to end insecurity in Nigeria is a fresh approach to the duties of his office as Commander-in-Chief. It is different from the usual “marching orders” that no longer means anything, even to the military and police personnel. In most cases, the armed forces and police […]
NAFDAC: Renewed war, renewed threats
Since the late Professor Dora Akunyili left the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in December 2008, the Agency has hardly made front page news except for the wrong reasons, until now. The incumbent Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, a professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation, has brought the […]
APC’s endorsement of Tinubu
On Wednesday last week, the All Progressives Congress, APC, held a rare National Executive Council, NEC, meeting at its national headquarters in Abuja, apparently for the specific intent to pass a vote of confidence on its leader, President Bola Tinubu; National Chairman, Umar Ganduje and other major party officeholders. Tinubu has thus been cleared to […]
Ramadan: Beyond the fasting
Nigerian Muslims join the rest of the Islamic world to observe this year’s Ramadan, in which the fasting ritual is observed. For Muslims, Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is time for piety, spirituality and an opportunity of getting closer to God through fasting and praying. Muslims also take time to recite the […]
Lessons from IBB’s autobiography
About a week ago, Nigeria’s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, unveiled his autobiography: A Journey in Service before a gathering of the cream of the Nigerian society.
Stop Nigeriens’ meddling in our affairs
The recent discovery of about 6,000 foreign nationals from our Northern neighbour, the Republic of Niger, as holders of the National Identity Numbers, NINs, of Nigeria, did not come as a surprise. The surprise is that only 6,000 of them have been discovered and reportedly deleted. Niger Republic residents do not seem to know where […]
