Immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has continued to play pranks with law enforcement agencies for far too long. Bello, who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after his hand-picked successor, Governor Usman Ododo, rescued him from the Commission’s operatives in his Abuja private mansion, has continued to […]

Apart from corruption, one of the greatest reasons for Nigeria’s backwardness is inability of government leaders to implement policies as planned or budgeted. Planning, ideas and elegant “grammar” are never in short supply. Bringing plans to life always is. It is a national problem that must be addressed if we are to move forward. The […]

Today, Thursday, September 19, 2024, is the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s, deadline for the cessation of all campaigns for the Edo State Governorship Election coming up on Saturday, September 21. It has been a very feisty and acrimonious electioneering period for the 16 political parties and their candidates lining up for the election. It […]

Over 31 months since the Federal Government unveiled what it called a plan to convert 200,000 commercial vehicles to run on Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, or Autogas, nothing serious has been done towards its actualisation. In January 2022, preparatory to the final withdrawal of the Federal Government from payment of petrol subsidies, the Muhammadu Buhari […]

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.