NFF: Need for a new beginning
Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]
That ill-advised suspension of banks from forex market
Although all the nine banks –First Bank, Diamond Bank, Sterling Bank, Skye Bank, Fidelity Bank, United Bank for Africa, Keystone Bank, First City Monument Bank, and Heritage Bank — suspended from the foreign exchange market have since been readmitted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the episode points to the need for caution when the regulatory authorities decide to wield the hammer to redress perceived violations.
Probe the IDP feeding crisis now
Within 24 hours of the visit of Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the co-Founder of The One Campaign, David Hewson of the U2 rock group to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, the IDPs went on another street protest, the second within one week, alleging ill-treatment and poor feeding by government and other supposed humanitarian agencies.
We need imagination, not emergency powers
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Team headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has served notice of its intention to introduce a bill in the National Assembly (NASS) seeking “emergency” powers to fix the economy.
Kerry’s caution on handling of extremists
United States of America’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, made a two-day whistle-stop in Nigeria penultimate Monday and Tuesday. His itinerary included a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Northern governors and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III.
As “operation Crocodile smile” begins
ON Saturday, August, 29 2016, the much-dreaded but well-envisaged showdown between the Nigerian Armed Forces and the various militant groups operating in our oil-rich Niger Delta region was formally launched by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buaratai, with military fanfare in Warri, Delta State.
