Governor of Abia State, Dr Alex Otti, has announced January 2025 as the date the state will join those that offer free, compulsory basic education to its residents. Many states throughout the federation have been operating the same model, but some of them adopt discriminatory practices that largely exclude non-indigenes. The model that Abia will […]

The universal commemoration of this year’s World Diabetes Day, WDD, last Thursday presented another opportunity to draw attention to the plight of Nigerians trapped in disease and hunger. The theme of this year’s event was simply: “Diabetes and Well-being”. The Diabetes Association of Nigeria, DAN, President, Dr Ejiofo Ugwu, disclosed that diabetes affects between five […]

One of the grounds on which Supreme Court judges “mutinied” in June 2022, leading to the forced exit of Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, was inadequate housing for judicial officers. They complained that many of them lived in rented apartments which rendered them vulnerable. On the face of it, the move […]

Ever wondered how the poorest of the poor are coping with the current hunger pandemic sweeping through Nigeria? With about 160 million Nigerians now living in multidimensional poverty, and the middle class drastically eroded due to the harsh economic policies of the Bola Tinubu administration, the very poor and vulnerable have largely lost their fall-back, […]

Defence Headquarters, DHQ, on Thursday, November 7, 2024, announced the emergence of what it described as “a new terrorist group” which goes by the name of Lakurawa in the North-West, especially the Sokoto, Kebbi and northern parts of Niger State. The arrival of this new armed group will definitely worsen the terrible security situation in […]

Expectedly, world leaders and pretty much every person has expectations of the President-elect of the United States of America, Donald J Trump. America is still the foremost superpower militarily and economically, and the arrival of a new helmsman at the White House is bound to raise all kinds of presumptions. President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message […]

The just-concluded American presidential and congressional elections have largely restored the United States to its pride of place as the leader of democracy and freedom in the world. Despite the oft-dirty happenings on the campaign trail, Americans and the world can look back on the Tuesday, November 5, 2024 election with a sigh of relief. […]

A rash of protests has been erupting in parts of the country over the draconian posture of power service providers towards their customers. Consumers gather with placards and banners to publicly decry their ordeals at the hands of the various Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, the end-user providers of electricity. Recently, the Ajegunle People’s Movement, APM, […]

President Bola Tinubu is a co-founder of the All Progressives Congress, APC, a political party which challenged for leadership on the mantra of “Change”. It was given the mandate to replace the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015. A former Minister of State for Finance under the PDP rule, Bashir Yuguda, was tried along with […]

The urgent need for rapid decentralisation of governmental powers continues to stare Nigeria in the face, no matter the direction we look. Recently, the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, met with the National Council of Traditional Rulers, NCTR, to advocate the constitutional incorporation of traditional rulers and local communities towards arresting our security challenges. The incessant […]