After prolonged resistance, former president, Muhammadu Buhari, on June 6, 2018, declared June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Before then Democracy Day was celebrated on May 29, the day the military handed over to elected civilians.  The agitation for making June 12 our Democracy Day was rooted in the logic that June 12, 1993, was the […]

Over the past fortnight, the people of Mokwa and surrounding settlements in Niger State have been engulfed in grief and misery after the flood disaster that descended on them on May 28, 2025, just as Nigerians prepared to mark the second anniversary of the current administration. The flood, which cut right through the agrarian community […]

The debacle surrounding the local government system in Osun State is another reflection of the challenges faced by the country’s governance framework. The local government secretariats have remained unoccupied since the February 22, 2025, local government elections in the state. Governor Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke during the swearing-in of the elected officials asked them to stay […]

Nigerian Muslims today, Friday June 6, 2025, join the rest of the Muslim Ummah to celebrate yet another Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim festival which falls on the 10th day of Dhul Hijjah, the last month of the Muslim calendar. This Islamic festival commemorates the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to follow Allah’s command to sacrifice […]

In apparent bid to perform its statutory function of sanitising the drug markets, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, shut major pharmaceutical and cosmetics markets in Idumota, Lagos; Ariaria, Aba; and Ogbogwu drug market, Onitsha, back on February 10, 2025. According to NAFDAC’s head of Enugu Zonal Operations, Martin Iluyomade, […]