Today is Christmas, the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ – a day Nigerians usually join the rest of the world to be merry. But we are sad. In the history of Nigeria, apart from the Christmas Days that fell within the civil war years, today is probably the first Christmas in peace time wherein […]

As though foretelling the chains of national tragedies that eventually befell Nigeria a few days ago, on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 when we published our editorial titled “Badenoch: Who’s proud of a failing country?” we stated that: “In recent times, the slogan, ‘may Nigeria never happen to you’, has become a wish exchanged among Nigerians”; […]

A visit to the premises of any local government secretariat in Nigeria is enough to convince one that this tier of government has been grossly neglected. Many of the secretariats are housed in old, run-down buildings characterised by broken furniture, leaking roofs, and overgrown surroundings. Most of them lack basic amenities like electricity, water and […]

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 […]