Nigeria’s worsening crime numbers
In the past decade, Nigeria’s name has become increasingly associated with crime, insecurity, and institutional decay, at home and abroad. Official corruption, weak institutions, terrorism, banditry, and the routine kidnapping of schoolchildren for ransom have normalised a national crisis that has eroded public trust and damaged the country’s global standing. The crimes not only persist; […]
Calls on NCC to block porn sites
We are fully on the same page with the call by the House of Representatives on the need to block all porn sites because of the damage porn is wreaking on the fabric of our society. Last week, the House directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the industry regulator, to shut down porn hosting websites […]
Rivers also needs “Lagos Treatment”
President Bola Tinubu is expected to bring his “magic touch” to fix the Rivers State political crisis just as he did in dousing the heat rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Attention, ECOWAS standby force
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, under the leadership of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, is moving forward with the recent establishment of the 5,000-strong ECOWAS Standby Force. By so doing, the ECOWAS has proved once again to be one of the most active regional bodies in the world. It has moved ahead of […]
Year of paradigm shift at PAP
The establishment of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, was the magic wand with which the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua peacefully ended militancy in the Niger Delta in 2009. It forever endeared him to the people of the region. The programme was designed to provide the framework for disarmament and reintegration of ex-militants. It offered […]
Africa must end aid dependency
One of the greatest signposts of shame on the face of Africa is the dependency of most of its member nations on foreign aids. Unfortunately, Nigeria, the much touted “giant of Africa”, is one of them. Evidence of this was the recent provision of N700 billion by President Bola Tinubu to cover for the scrapping […]
