The Akwa Ibom office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has made outstanding contributions to the growth of our democracy, being about the only one out of its 37 peers in the Federation to put two crooked professors in jail for electoral fraud. The convicted professors are Peter Ogban, professor of Soil Science, who […]

Former Labour leader and Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Interior, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, is not the first to tell Nigerians that our solid mineral fields have been hijacked by those he described as “retired Generals” in collaboration with foreign crooks. Oshiomhole addressed the media recently and disclosed how, as National Chairman of his […]

On Friday last week, many media houses ran screaming headlines that the House of Representatives was “proposing” 31 new states. It raised quite some dust, as many angry commentators questioned the rationale behind such a “proposal”. In truth, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, read out a formal letter to […]

Once again, the perennial fights between the Police Service Commission, PSC, and the Inspector General of Police, IGP, erupted last week. PSC, the constitutional body responsible for the recruitments, discipline and promotions in the Nigeria Police Force, had directed all officers who had attained the age of 60 or served for 36 years to retire. […]

Recently, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said the Federal Government plans to establish an aircraft manufacturing firm in Nigeria. Within that same period, the Permanent Secretary of Innovation, Science and Technology, Mrs. Esuabana Nko Asanye, also announced that Nigeria is to collaborate with the Republic of Russia in the areas […]

The first rains of the new year have started, marking the beginning of another planting season. It is another annual opportunity provided by mother nature to solve the problem of hunger on earth. But are Nigerians whose population is devastated by extreme hunger, ready to seize this opportunity of another planting season to try to […]

The activities of terrorists, bandits, armed herdsmen, kidnappers and other forms of crime have almost brought the country to its knees. Tens of thousands have lost their lives, while millions of others have been maimed and displaced, especially in the North East, Middle Belt and North-West Nigeria. Kaduna State, one of the six states in […]

The announcement by President Donald Trump to cut funding for international HIV/AIDS initiatives, including those targeting Nigeria and other low and middle-income countries, sent ripples across the world. A week later, on January 28, 2025, the administration granted a waiver for essential medicines and medical services, allowing the global HIV treatment programme to continue.   The […]

Unfortunately, due to poverty, ignorance and the inability of misguided citizens to resist the lure of free petrol, this tragedy will continue until government does its job to minimise the exposure of the poor to this danger.

Recent news updates from Defence Headquarters show that the end of days of terror of North West bandits might be in sight. The vow of the Nigerian Armed Forces to capture Bello Turji, the daredevil bandit warlord in the North West axis, could be realised sooner than later, judging by the military’s bulletins about its […]