Why Nigeria must invest in mangroves preservation
Nigeria and the world are bleeding biodiversity at an alarming rate. Globally, the United Nations (UN) reports that 420 million hectares of forest, which is roughly the size of the European Union, have been lost since 1990, with mangroves vanishing even faster at 35 per cent of their original extent. In Nigeria, the Niger Delta’s mangrove […]
Yahaya Bello and the EFCC
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 […]
Maiduguri floods and leadership failure
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 […]
All eyes on Edo gubernatorial poll
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 […]
FG and its CNG policy
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 […]
Ex-President Jonathan’s political future
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 […]
Maiduguri flood, a national emergency
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 […]
Remembering Premier M. I. Okpara
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 […]
Charging protesters with treason is absurd
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 […]
Delay of duty-free food imports
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
Turji’s purported olive branch
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 […]
