In spite of the timely warnings by government agencies at state and federal levels, millions of Nigerians are still caught off-guard, with attendant losses of lives and property.

The lesson for all sitting Deputy Governors and future ones is that their survival depends one hundred per cent on loyalty to their bosses.

THE dust has yet to settle on the outrage sparked by the illegal arrest, detention and torture of a newspaper editor, Segun Olatunji, over a report published in the FirstNews online newspaper. The military only let Olatunji go after frontline media and civil society interest groups started asking questions. On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in […]

As a newspaper committed to a better life for the people, we have always strongly stood for the prioritisation and protection of domestic investments without compromising their foreign investor counterparts. A level playing field is central to harnessing a thriving economy. Our experience in the telecom sector should always guide us to put our own […]

We are dismayed that the National Assembly has not made enough effort to assert its constitutional mandate over this project as the representatives of the people.

The Chibok incident of April 14, 2014, stands as a tragic milestone that has redefined Nigeria, especially Northern Nigeria, in at least two ways. It introduced mass abductions of innocent and defenceless citizens as a way of life and destabilised the security and economic stability of the North. On that fateful day, a group of […]

In a proactive move, the Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, swept through some outliers of Abuja recently and nabbed 85 criminal suspects from their hideouts in the Durumi and Dei-Dei sections of the city. These are some of the numerous slums that have developed to accommodate the poor who erect […]

Africa’s newest president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, of Senegal was sworn in on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 in Dakar, an event that President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria joined his colleague heads of state and other dignitaries to attend. Faye, 44, emerged from a complex process characterised by sudden paradigm shifts. For instance, out-gone President Macky Sall […]

THE territorial dispute between Okuama and Okoloba communities in Delta State is just one of the thousands of such crises in Nigeria. Okuama only became hot news reference point because of the massacre of 17 officers and men of the Nigerian Army, which took place on its soil. Nigeria is a place where government officials […]

The situation that is unfolding around some frontline gospel music artistes and some bloggers will help  teach people useful lessons about the sensitivity of social media engagement. Due to the Information and Computer Technology, ICT, age we are in, millions of people have capitalised on the allures and money-making potentials of social media applications, such […]

Almost one year on, it has become crystal-clear that the President Bola Tinubu government is acting out a pro-West script both at the domestic and regional levels. The aborted move to lead the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, countries to “flush out” the military regime from Niger Republic was not motivated by our […]

We join people of good conscience and the displaced indigenes of embattled Okuama and other communities taking refuge in the creeks to plead with the Federal and Delta State governments to intervene and ensure their safe return to their communities. It is almost three weeks since March 14, 2024 when some evil elements ambushed, slaughtered […]

The most outstanding feature of this year’s election was the victory of the candidate of the opposition Pastef Party, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, over the rest of the other 16 candidates.

Nigerians have gone through a lot in the past nine years, a situation that got worse when Tinubu took harsh decisions he deemed necessary to revive the economy.

To call President Bola Ahmed Tinubu an enigma is an understatement; he is a phenomenon. Tinubu is easily one of the most sagacious political leaders in Nigeria’s history. Everybody wants to be president, but how many people get to achieve that lofty objective? Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the only political leader who put two presidents […]