President Bola Tinubu last week moved further in his intention to reform the livestock agriculture sector by appointing a substantive Minister for Livestock Development, Alhaji Idi Mukhtar. Tinubu is already the Chairman of the livestock reform committee with Professor Attahiru Jega as his Co-Chairman. At a two-day consultative workshop at the State House Conference Centre, […]

A major highlight of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet reshuffle last week was the scrapping of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and creation of Ministry of Regional Development. The president effected his anticipated government rejig, sacking six ministers, appointing seven new ones, reassigning ten and scrapping two, including the Ministry of Sports. Some Niger Delta […]

One of Nigeria’s living legends, General Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon(PhD, GCFR), celebrated his 90th birthday in style on Saturday, October 19, 2024, with deserved encomiums from a cross section of prominent Nigerians, including two-time Nigerian leader, General Olusegun Obasanjo. President Bola Tinubu was also among the plethora of leaders who felicitated with a man whose name […]

Sunday, October 20, 2024 was the fourth anniversary of the infamous Lekki Toll Gate shootings. On that day, four years ago, the Nigerian Army, drafted by former President Muhammadu Buhari at the invitation of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, shot into a mass of unarmed protesting Nigerian youths singing the National Anthem and waving […]

The National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, confirmed what many informed observers had long suspected as a major contributor to Nigeria’s inability to overcome its insecurity challenges. At the Arms Destruction Exercise organised by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, NCCSALW, at Giri, Abuja, Ribadu disclosed that “most” of […]

For the umpteenth time this year alone, the World Bank has come forward to hail President Bola Tinubu administration’s for adopting the economic model prescribed by it and the International Monetary Fund, IMF. At the launch of the Nigerian Development Update, NDU, report in Abuja last week, WB’s Country Director for Nigeria, Ndiame Diop, said […]

If Nigeria still has the stuff that models it as the “giant of Africa”, it must seize this moment and rally support for an end to the uncivilised conduct of some African countries towards visiting fellow African sports (especially football) teams. Nigeria and Libya “brawled” on and off the football pitch towards their qualification for […]

Jigawa State and Nigeria as a whole suffered another tragedy on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 when a petrol tanker travelling from Kano to Nguru in Yobe State, overturned near Khadija University, Majiya village in Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. About 140 lives were lost and another 70 injured in the inferno that ensued […]

All eyes are on the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, to take personally, President Bola Tinubu’s food imports waiver policy implementation announced as a means of temporarily ameliorating the current extreme hunger in Nigeria. Following the #EndBadGovernance and #EndHardship protests in early August this year, which erupted as a […]

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 […]

There is no reasonable ground for the Federal Government to continue detaining Nigerians in police or prison custody for participating in any protest, be it the #EndSARS event of October 2020, the #EndBadGovernance protests of August 2024 or any other. Sections 39 and 40 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended), guarantee freedom of speech and […]

The Rivers State crisis is the result of disagreement between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and their struggle for control of the political structure of the state. Wike is believed to have helped install Fubara in power, but Fubara’s supporters accused the Minister of […]

President Bola Tinubu was widely expected to announce some political reforms of geopolitical nature in his 64th independence anniversary speech to the nation. As we approach the halfway mark of his four-year tenure, Nigeria urgently needs an electoral reform that will restore fully the independence of the electoral umpire, whereby the Independent National Electoral Commission, […]

Last week, President Bola Tinubu once again jetted out to the United Kingdom on a two-week annual vacation. According to his media office, he will “work” from there. The president’s trip is in breach of Section 145(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as Amended). It provides that WHENEVER the president embarks on a vacation, he must […]

Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, OFR, CON, distinguished scholar, administrator and exemplary public servant, is 70 today, Thursday, October 10, 2024. Oloyede, a highly decorated Islamic scholar, jurist and cleric, is the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. If you ask any discerning Nigerian why his country is backward instead of occupying its […]