School resumption amid mounting insecurity
As the 2026/2027 school session begins across Nigeria, millions of parents face the familiar burdens of school fees, uniforms, books and transport. But for many, especially in conflict-prone communities, there is a more frightening question: will their children return home safely each day? The school, once regarded as a sanctuary of learning and hope, has […]
Squandering the nation’s wealth
Privatisation was a cardinal policy of the neo-liberal reforms advocated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for ailing third world economies in the 1980s.
Don’t Surrender Nigeria To Criminals
WHY are we ever so ready to concede Nigeria to criminals? The suggestion of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for suspension of night travels meets this standard of postponing challenges under the pretence of solving them. Fourteen passengers died on a night trip last week on the Okene-Lokoja road not because they were travelling […]
A worryingly angry world
IN December 2008, thousands of young people hit the streets of various cities in Greece to protest the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a teenager a policeman shot.
Ogoni: A disaster predicted, embraced
TWO things may shock you about the report of the Presidential Committee on Environmental, Survey, and Clean-up of Ogoniland which the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, conducted — Ogoni spokes people are rejecting it as an imposition and the Nigerian government, the senior partner in all oil productions in Nigeria, says it needs help to implement it.
Shameful, Stunning, Somali Statistics
MORE than 29,000 children are dead. Another 640,000 are malnourished enough that their death is a matter of time. The death toll increases from people scrambling for food or through gunmen who want to hijack food that relief organisations are distributing or stop it from reaching the people.
