Jigawa State and Nigeria as a whole suffered another tragedy on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 when a petrol tanker travelling from Kano to Nguru in Yobe State, overturned near Khadija University, Majiya village in Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. About 140 lives were lost and another 70 injured in the inferno that ensued […]

All eyes are on the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, to take personally, President Bola Tinubu’s food imports waiver policy implementation announced as a means of temporarily ameliorating the current extreme hunger in Nigeria. Following the #EndBadGovernance and #EndHardship protests in early August this year, which erupted as a […]

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

There is no reasonable ground for the Federal Government to continue detaining Nigerians in police or prison custody for participating in any protest, be it the #EndSARS event of October 2020, the #EndBadGovernance protests of August 2024 or any other. Sections 39 and 40 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended), guarantee freedom of speech and […]

The Rivers State crisis is the result of disagreement between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and their struggle for control of the political structure of the state. Wike is believed to have helped install Fubara in power, but Fubara’s supporters accused the Minister of […]

President Bola Tinubu was widely expected to announce some political reforms of geopolitical nature in his 64th independence anniversary speech to the nation. As we approach the halfway mark of his four-year tenure, Nigeria urgently needs an electoral reform that will restore fully the independence of the electoral umpire, whereby the Independent National Electoral Commission, […]

Last week, President Bola Tinubu once again jetted out to the United Kingdom on a two-week annual vacation. According to his media office, he will “work” from there. The president’s trip is in breach of Section 145(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as Amended). It provides that WHENEVER the president embarks on a vacation, he must […]

Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, OFR, CON, distinguished scholar, administrator and exemplary public servant, is 70 today, Thursday, October 10, 2024. Oloyede, a highly decorated Islamic scholar, jurist and cleric, is the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. If you ask any discerning Nigerian why his country is backward instead of occupying its […]

President Bola Tinubu’s announcement, during his October 1, 2024 Independence Day address to the nation, that he had conferred National Honours on some principal officers of the State, has generated some furore, not only within the National Assembly but also many discussion circles and the social media. The President conferred Grand Commander of the Order […]

If there will be a World War any time soon, it is most likely to break out from the Middle East this time, unlike Europe as in the past. Since the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, they have been involved in a series of wars, skirmishes, violence and terrorism with […]