Tackling frequent building collapses
Between January 2020 and June 2026, Nigeria recorded dozens of building collapses that killed hundreds and injured many more. Nationally, more than 650 collapses have killed over 1,600 people since 1974, according to figures the Federal Government cited last month. Lagos, where rapid urban growth and chronic flooding concentrate risk, accounts for over half of […]
Seeking Saudi Succour
PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar’Adua opted for a visit to Saudi Arabia when global attention is at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. At least he told Nigerians where he was, and why he was there.
SIM card registration and our security
ON his familiarisation visit to the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, 17th of September 2009, the new Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo, disclosed that a Bill has been sent to the National Assembly to ensure the registration of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards that enable mobile telephone handset users to make […]
Unsolved murder of journalists
On Sallah day, Monday 21st of September 2009, Nigerians woke up to the sad news of the brutal murder of Mr Bayo Ohu, an Assistant Political Editor with The Guardian Newspapers in his Akowonjo suburb home a day earlier. According to reports, the gunmen entered his house in the morning while the family was preparing […]
Nigeria’s 90m poor
NIGERIA is one of the world’s poorest countries. One`fifth of Africa’s population is in Nigeria; two thirds of Nigerians, over 80 million people, live on less than $1 per day. One in five Nigerian children dies before its fifth birthday. A 2005 study noted the intensity of the poverty in Nigeria thus, “80 to 90 […]
Ramadan Kareem
RAMADAN, which has just ended, is a time for self-examination and increased religious devotion to the Almighty Allah. The fasting ends when the new moon is again sighted and the Ramadan Kareemeasting and the exchange of gifts follow. During Ramadan, Muslims continued with their prayers five times a day, but after the night prayer is […]
PDP’s Immodesties
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a behemoth in every sense. It has governors in 28 States and the numbers keep increasing through the subterfuge that sees governors decamping to the party. The Houses of Assembly of those States are in PDP’s control. At the National Assembly, PDP has overwhelming hold with 89 senators and […]
Slaps As Human Rights
NOT many would have known Honourable Chinyere Igwe, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights, until he slapped his way to fame last week. The crown for the first slap at the National Assembly belongs to Distinguished Senator Isa Mohammed who in October 2004 unleashed his fury on Distinguished Senator Iyabo […]
Gani – Like No Other
CHIEF Ganiyu Fawehinmi’s death brought foes and friends to extol him. Nobody can afford to be indifferent to a man who defined the law and extended the frontiers of justice. Those who rate him the most committed activist in Nigeria’s human rights activism understate the man. What defined Gani? Was it just his activism? Was […]
Calls For New Constitution
IT has become obvious that many Nigerians have lost faith in the 1999 Constitution.
Sept 11 – Eight Years On
AN articulated aerial attack of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, and the Pentagon on 11 September eight years ago, changed the world significantly, especially the frenzy with which the United States pushed its war against terrorism.
