Tackling light arms proliferation
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons across Nigeria is not a distant threat; it is an immediate, corrosive reality that bleeds communities dry of security, livelihood and hope. Pistols, assault rifles and improvised firearms have become the currency of violence, multiplying the lethality of banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes and organised crime. Where once […]
Securing our airport perimeters
Tragedy was averted over the weekend (Saturday, May 10, 2025) when a taxiing Air Peace flight from Lagos crushed an antelope on the tarmac of the Asaba Airport in Delta State. The incident damaged the aircraft and caused flight disruptions.
Prof Oloyede and JAMB crisis
The ongoing concerns over students’ poor performances in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and the crisis of confidence within the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, have raised geopolitical tensions. The result released recently by JAMB showed that over 75 per cent of the candidates who sat for the examination scored below 200 […]
Tinubu’s “Nigeria First” proposition
Fresh from his recent eighth trip to France where he has spent over 80 days cumulatively in the past two years of his ascent to power, President Bola Tinubu has given what he calls a “Nigeria First” directive to all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs. Henceforth, procurements are to prioritise goods and services […]
Happy Family Day!
Today is a special day to remember the importance of that solid foundation and building block of all societies – the family. The United Nations in 1993, set aside the May 15 every year to focus the world’s attention on the families and their roles in ensuring social progress. The theme for this year’s anniversary […]
Farewell to Pa Edwin Clark
Just a few years ago, Nigeria enjoyed the wisdom of four outstanding nonagenarians representing her four cardinal points. From the East came Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, a former Aviation Minister; from the West was Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Yoruba Afenifere. From the North was Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, a Federal Parliamentarian in the 1950s and from […]
Honestly diagnosing our military’s woes
There is no arguing the fact that Nigeria’s military, Police and other security forces are no longer what they used to be. The moves by the National Assembly to convene a security summit and calls by some retired Generals for our military’s rearmament are just a few pointers to this. The same Nigerian Army that […]
FG’s doublespeak on solar import ban
Federal Government officials have unwittingly sowed seeds of confusion as to whether or not the Bola Tinubu regime is planning a ban on importation of photovoltaic panels any time soon. Self-impressed with what the experts in his ministry are doing, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, recently claimed the government was willing […]
Labour’s 65 years retirement demand
Organised Labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliate unions – marked this year’s May Day on the usual May 1, 2025 throughout the country with mixed feelings and the expected litany of demands. One of them, which we frown at, was the advocacy for the increment […]
Akpabio/Ogban, a big lesson
The issue that has transpired between President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Professor Peter Ogban, a Returning Officer, since the 2019 Senatorial Election in Akwa Ibom State, is a big lesson for those who, for a mess of pottage, will readily mortgage their reputations and those of their families. Ogban, a Professor of Soil […]
Insecurity: Lawmakers barking up the wrong tree
The gaping failure in our security architecture was revisited on Tuesday last week during the two-day colloquium on the Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003, titled: “22 years after, Reassessing the Nigerian Communications Act – Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions for a Digital Nigeria”, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos. Some Members of the House of […]
