On February 24, 2022, Russia commenced the military invasion of its western neighbour, Ukraine. After three years of intense hostilities, both countries are literally bleeding all over. Actual numbers of dead and wounded are difficult to pin down amidst war propaganda. It is believed that both sides have suffered hundreds of thousands of military and […]

The calls from various quarters for the immortalisation of Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, NEC, which mid-wifed the acclaimed freest, fairest and most peaceful election in Nigeria’s history, should appeal to us as something to identify with. Gradually, even if sometimes reluctantly, successive regimes, major players and concerned political interest […]

Efforts by successive Akwa Ibom State administrations to actualise the construction of a deep seaport have continued to hit the proverbial brick wall. Akwa Ibom is a littoral state, with a shoreline that sits on some of the deepest portions of the Nigerian continental shelf. In 1999 when the government of former Governor Victor Attah, […]

The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats Sahel, AES, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a big blow to Africa’s best known regional organisation. Coming on the 50th anniversary of ECOWAS which is built on the protocols of free movement of people and goods without […]

President Bola Tinubu’s December 2025 deadline for the armed forces to end insecurity in Nigeria is a fresh approach to the duties of his office as Commander-in-Chief. It is different from the usual “marching orders” that no longer means anything, even to the military and police personnel. In most cases, the armed forces and police […]

Since the late Professor Dora Akunyili left the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in December 2008, the Agency has hardly made front page news except for the wrong reasons, until now. The incumbent Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, a professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation, has brought the […]

On Wednesday last week, the All Progressives Congress, APC, held a rare National Executive Council, NEC, meeting at its national headquarters in Abuja, apparently for the specific intent to pass a vote of confidence on its leader, President Bola Tinubu; National Chairman, Umar Ganduje and other major party officeholders. Tinubu has thus been cleared to […]

Nigerian Muslims join the rest of the Islamic world to observe this year’s Ramadan, in which the fasting ritual is observed. For Muslims, Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is time for piety, spirituality and an opportunity of getting closer to God through fasting and praying. Muslims also take time to recite the […]

About a week ago, Nigeria’s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, unveiled his autobiography: A Journey in Service before a gathering of the cream of the Nigerian society. 

The recent discovery of about 6,000 foreign nationals from our Northern neighbour, the Republic of Niger, as holders of the National Identity Numbers, NINs, of Nigeria, did not come as a surprise. The surprise is that only 6,000 of them have been discovered and reportedly deleted. Niger Republic residents do not seem to know where […]