Come January 20, 2025, exactly one month from today, a new president of the United States of America, USA, will be inaugurated and sworn in at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. In the November 5, 2024 election, Donald Trump had won the election with 312 electoral votes and 49.9 per cent of popular […]

The incident in Zamfara State, where a gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid at Kakin Dawa village on Sunday, December 8, 2024, highlights the ongoing security challenges in Nigeria. In the last few years, violence arising from religious extremism, kidnappings and banditry has claimed numerous lives, displaced communities […]

Leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, a Yoruba by descent, came under fire recently for her comments about Nigeria which some Nigerians see as unpatriotic. The new Conservative leader was accused of speaking in undignified manners about Nigeria and its leaders. For instance, she had described Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, as a […]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the International Human Rights Day. It is a day set aside by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, which outlines the rights of everyone as a human being. The UDHR frowns at […]

Japa, a term in Nigeria’s national lingo that roughly translates to citizens leaving the country without any intention to return, is reflective of our failings as a nation. As some data show, about 3,679,496 Nigerians have left the country in the last two years.  The International Organisation for Migration puts the population of Nigerians in […]

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

The Kwara State Ministry of Education and the authorities of Government Day Junior Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin, moved swiftly to address a case of severe assault of an unnamed National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member by a teacher in the school where she had just completed her service year. The student was reportedly attacked by […]

Niger State, the largest sub-national entity in Nigeria by landmass, was recently in the news for the right reasons. Its Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Umar Bago, a banker and former federal lawmaker, set a tone of religious tolerance that shocked many. Though a very devoted Muslim, he not only authorised the staging of a massive […]

President Bola Tinubu last week joined his counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, for the 11th Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission, BNC, in Cape Town, South Africa, in an effort to address the often troubled relationship between the two African giants. With Africa as the perennial centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, we have always played the Big Brother role. […]

It goes with little argument that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, is one of the most graphic reflections of our largely morally decadent society. Its current handlers also need to do more to re-establish it as a serious, matured agency of law enforcement and pursuit of justice both for its personnel and members of the […]

The proverbial long arm of the law has scored another big hit, with the arrest, diligent prosecution and sentencing of the robbers who invaded Offa town in Kwara State on April 5, 2018. It was a bank robbery unlike no other. Beyond the use of explosives to burst bank vaults, the gangsters embarked upon an […]

In a number of ways, President Bola Tinubu is keeping some of his campaign promises which, however, are taking harsh tolls on the people. All major presidential candidates pledged to end petrol subsidy payments, a policy that Tinubu implemented from Day One of his administration. He had also campaigned on the need to “widen the […]

Recycling is a waste-to-wealth activity tailored towards fostering environmental sustainability. In our industrial age where large-scale production and consumption generate a lot of wastes, the environment gets severely polluted unless efforts are made to evacuate the waste. With our large population and huge appetite for consumption of mainly goods produced in other countries and dumped […]

It came like a bolt from the blue last week Tuesday when the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced the resumption of crude oil refining at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, after years of inactivity. Many Nigerians did not believe the news, obviously because of the many failed promises of resumption. Some Nigerians […]

THE National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]