Zamfara State remains the hotbed of bandit terrorism in Northern Nigeria. It was from here that bandits, consisting mainly of Fulani nomadic herdsmen who turned to crime, spread to nearby states such as Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger and the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Governor of the state, Dauda Lawal, was recently […]

WHAT do we do with our nomads and pastoralists, some of whom have become major perpetrators of insecurity in Nigeria? Some among the once peaceful occupational group has become armed and violent; massacring people, displacing communities all over Nigeria and seizing the lands of indigenous people who had allowed them to graze their livestock when […]

FOR the first time in Nigeria’s history, we have practised unbroken democracy for a quarter of a century. Since the movement of the seat of the Federal Government to Abuja in December 1991 by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, democracy has been given an uncommon impetus to flourish and bear the fruits romantically […]

Nigeria’s music sensation, Patrick Okorie, popularly known in the Afrobeat world as Patoranking, last week announced with justifiable glee, his graduation from the Harvard Business School, which is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts in the United State of America. He shared photos of himself posing with Professor Anita Elberse, a lecturer who received a special mention […]

Nigeria’s failure status is manifest in every direction. State failure simply means the inability of a country to maintain law and order, develop properly, protect its people and defend its territorial integrity. The strength of the armed forces, police, security and paramilitary organisations is not in their ability to harass and intimidate innocent and law-abiding […]

The Nigerian Judiciary is in a bad shape. This is not surprising, since the Judiciary is also a part of our terribly malfunctioning system. To identify where to start the reform of the Nigerian society from, we must return to the mantra the late former Justice of the Supreme Court, Anthony Aniagolu, always trumpeted: “To […]

Five personnel of the Nigerian Army manning a checkpoint at Obikabia Junction in Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia State, were murdered in cold blood by cowardly militants on Thursday, May 30, 2024. They were on duty to secure peaceful and law-abiding citizens amidst a “sit-at-home” order called by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to honour Igbo people […]

President Bola Tinubu’s one year in office is a mix of pain and relief for the media and journalists. We have seen a leader who opened a smiling face for the media as an industry and yet brandished hard knuckles for a number of media practitioners. Tinubu met media owners and operators in December 2023, listened […]

The “doomsday” was long expected because the two parties to the labour dispute did not approach it with enough spirit of compromise. Organised Labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC – made good their threat to down tools following the failure to agree a new National Minimum Wage, NMW. […]

Like many of the programmes he initiated in the first year of his administration, President Bola Tinubu’s innovative Students Loan Scheme made its epileptic journey to reality with the signing of the executive bill, Students Loans (Access to Higher Education) Bill, 2024, into law in April. The Act is a great improvement of an earlier […]

As preparations towards the resumption of oil exploration and production in Ogoni land continue, the dark clouds are gathering once again, signifying that the leadership of the Ogoni people might not have learnt their lessons from the events that led to the devastation of their land and society nearly 30 years ago. Four prominent Ogoni […]

After eight years in power, former President Muhammadu Buhari left the country in shambles with the spectacular failure of his touted Three-Point Agenda – Security, Economy and Anti-corruption. He squandered trillions of Naira on the questionable implementation of a petrol subsidy regime. He abandoned the execution of subsidy removal to his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. […]

On May 8, 2024, the Nigerian Army, which had occupied Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State for almost two months, withdrew after receiving a signal “from above”. The Army invaded the community on March 14, 2024 after 17 of its officers and men “on a peace mission” were ambushed and gruesomely murdered. […]

Last week, the bid by members of the National Assembly to restore the old National Anthem: Nigeria We Hail Thee, made a surprisingly speedy progress to the third reading in the House of Representatives. It also got read a second time in the Senate. It would have been passed if some senators had not insisted […]

The avoidable and untimely demise of ace Nollywood actor, John Paul Odonwodo, alias Junior Pope and others on April 10, 2024 in a boat mishap on Anam River, Anambra State, during a filming operation brought back to the front burner the need for governments at all levels to pay closer attention to the safety needs […]