Editorial

Super Falcons’ flop: Time to rebuild our football

Super Falcons’ flop: Time to rebuild our football

The Super Falcons’ quarter-final exit from the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco is more than another painful sporting disappointment. It should be the moment Nigeria finally confronts the deep weaknesses in its football system and begin the difficult task of rebuilding. Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat by Cameroon ended the Falcons’ defence of their […]
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Farewell to Gen Muhammadu Buhari

Farewell to Gen Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari, retired Major General, former military Head of State and two-time elected President of Nigeria, bowed into the cold hands of death on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at an upscale London clinic at 82. His passing brought to an end a prolonged history of illness and hospitalisation which pervaded his eight-year tenure between 2015 […]

Police mass action

Police mass action

Socio-political activist, Omoyele Sowore, last week threatened to lead retired and serving personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, nationwide over poor welfare. This comes as the National Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, NARPON, bemoans the delayed payment of N758 billion outstanding pension liabilities from their Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to its members. […]

Adewale as World Customs boss

Adewale as World Customs boss

July 1, 2025, went down in history as a day yet another Nigerian super achiever, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR), the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, CG of NCS, was handed the mantle to lead a major global platform for trade administration and control, the World Customs Organisation, WCO. Adewale’s well-deserved appointment, coupled with a […]

Bandits’ massacre of 70 Plateau vigilantes

Bandits’ massacre of 70 Plateau vigilantes

The recent brutal massacre of over 70 members of a vigilante squad in Plateau State shows the danger that Nigerians are now exposed to due to the failure of the Nigerian state to protect its citizens from terrorists masquerading behind different monikers: armed herdsmen, Boko Haram, bandits, Lakurawa, ISIS, Mahmuda, and others. The vigilantes, from […]

Action needed against malnutrition

Action needed against malnutrition

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers. This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was […]