The political future or prospects of former President Goodluck Jonathan remains a subject of interest among watchers of the nation’s political landscape. This is more so as those who pushed him out of power – the All Progressives Congress, APC, governments of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the incumbent President Bola Tinubu – have performed […]

The residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and other vast areas of the North-East, woke up, Tuesday last week, to the invasion of massive floods which came as a result of a breach of the nearby Alau Dam after sustained rainfall. Video footages showed hundreds of houses and vehicles submerged by the flood. Residents […]

About 40 years since he died, the second Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, was honoured on August 22, 2024 with a lecture and awards event that was graced by many eminent personalities in Abuja. Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, who played a leading role in making the event a […]

Barely 15 months into his tenure, the government of President Bola Tinubu has recorded more direct assaults on the civil rights of citizens than all the other elected regimes combined since 1999. Throughout President Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight years, very few incidents of human rights abuses, press freedom violations and the harassment of civil society groups […]

Any serious and proactive administration would compel officials to sleep in their offices, if necessary, to cut through the red tape and bring the needed food relief into the system

Bello Turji Kachalla (or simply Turji), is a 30-year-old bandit/terrorist who has constituted himself and his thousands of gangsters into a nightmare for the people of Nigeria’s North-West, especially Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger states. He is to the North-West what the late Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, was to the North-East. The […]

After the Federal Government’s serial denials of resuming petrol subsidy payments, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, NNPCL, early last week admitted coming under “a financial strain” as it owed billions of dollars to fuel marketers. On Wednesday last week, it was all over the news that the company had hiked the pump price of […]

Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, appears dead serious about limiting the age of school leavers and tertiary institution admission seekers. Within his roughly one year in office, he has harped on this issue at least twice and announced his intention to see that the policy takes effect from next academic session. According to the […]

Many holders of Higher National Diploma, HND, certificates went to the ongoing Orientation Camps of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to register for their one-year national service only to be turned back due lack of Industrial Training, IT, certificates. Tertiary education in Nigeria as anywhere in the world consists of academic training for degree […]

Gradually, the ugly and dangerous trend is building up, and the ripple is widening. Unless urgent steps are taken and soon, we may end up with consequences that we did not bargain for. Last week, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, mobilised action against a Canada-based Nigerian lady involved in […]

If the Gobir people should succeed without being harassed by the Police and the Military, communities across the country might take up their security in a similar fashion.

It is difficult to understand why only institutions in the South-East felt aloof to a major relief package by the Federal Government for indigent students, particularly at this moment of crushing economic challenges facing the average Nigerian family.

The difference between man and beast, however, is that people in civilised countries have devised means of territorial governance that make disputes almost unnecessary.

There has been a swell of warnings by nutrition specialists and bloggers, particularly in the social media, on the increasing danger that most of the factory-manufactured foods, snacks and drinks pose to human health. Diseases like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension), cancers, strokes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and others have become major health challenges […]

ON Thursday, August 8, 2024, two days to the scheduled end of the recently concluded #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests, operatives of the Nigeria Police Force stormed Labour House, headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. The Police claimed they were looking for an international terrorist who used the NLC building as his office. Nigerians were shocked […]