The case for a Nigerian oil reserve
The G7’s decision to release 100 million barrels from strategic stocks demonstrates what can be done to treat energy security as national security. Strategic stocks may include crude oil, refined products or both. Nigeria should understand the warning. A country blessed with substantial petroleum resources remains exposed to supply disruptions, volatile prices, weak refining capacity […]
Aviation violations: dousing the fire
The Federal Government took decisive steps last week to quench the fire of controversies rocking the aviation sector. Just as the tide of public opinion was turning in favour of Miss Comfort Emmanson, the Ibom Air passenger in the vortex of alleged violations, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, issued a statement on […]
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 […]
Sokoto: Scholarship bond or bondage?
The Sokoto State Government needs to give a deeper rethink to its intention to compulsorily hold down beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme for 15 years before letting them leave and explore other personal growth opportunities. At a recent courtesy call by the Sokoto Professionals Association, SPA, in his office, the Deputy Governor, Idris Gobir, disclosed […]
DSS’s improved public image
In a few days, the administration of Oluwatosin Ajayi in the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, will clock one year. The Director General was appointed on Monday, August 26, 2024. He took over from Yusuf Bichi, whom President Bola Tinubu inherited from the regime of the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Its core mandates include […]
Gov Bago’s Badeggi Radio closure
Governor Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State committed a major blunder on Thursday, July 31, 2025, when he ordered the immediate shut-down of Badeggi Radio 90.1 FM based in Minna, the state capital. He accused the station of inciting the public and promoting violence against his government. He also ordered the seizure of the station’s […]
