One of the regrettable, negative fallouts of the 2023 general election was the bad blood it created along ethnic lines among Nigerians in many states in the country. Among those states was Lagos, which was for many years Nigeria’s federal capital before it lost that status to Abuja.   But even after it ceased to be Nigeria’s seat […]

As early as 2018, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd), a former Minister of Defence and elder statesman who has few rivals in the knowledge of what is happening inside the Nigerian Army, told Nigerians to defend themselves against killers in the country, saying the armed forces were not ready to defend them. “Our armed forces are not […]

The current debate on whether Nigerians, who are massacred by terrorists, have right to bear arms for self-defence, is somewhat needles, because there are enough provisions in our Constitution, the constitutions of advanced democracies, international conventions and charters that support the rights human beings have to self-defence. Writing on the subject, James Wilson of Pennsylvania […]

There is a reason humanity has chosen “Happy New Year” as the best wish for one another during this season. The reason is that happiness is the greatest good; the ultimate aspiration of mankind. In their book, “The Art of Happiness”, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dalai Lama, who is also the spiritual leader […]

As at yesterday, December 28, 2023, media reports put the death toll of the Plateau Christmas Eve attack at 195. Specifically, 148 people were killed in Bokkos Local Government Area, 19 in Mangu LGA, and 27 in Barkin Ladi, while 88 persons with severe injuries are being hospitalised. In addition to the massacre, about 1,300 […]

In 2019, Magdalene Yohanna collapsed at the NYSC Wailo camp, in Ganjuwa LGA, Bauchi State and later died a few minutes after she was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi. She was reported to have been compelled to participate in a task even after complaining of ill-health. In the same year, 27-year-old […]

How many of our students need to be abducted or killed while trying to fulfill the one-year compulsory National Youth Services programme before the Federal Government that sends them on the journey of uncertainty scraps the service, or find ways of guaranteeing the safety of the youths while they are rendering the so-called national service?   […]

A moving speech delivered sometime ago by JB Pritzker, Governor of the state of Illinois, USA, at a graduation ceremony of Northwestern University, largely captures the core of Christmas and the revolutionary light Jesus, whose birth is being celebrated today, ignited in our dark souls in a violent world. Pritzker told the audience that the best way […]

Normally, the most prayerful countries on earth should be the most prosperous. Unfortunately, according to data released recently by the Pew Research Centre, a non-partisan American think-tank based in Washington D.C., that is not the case. In fact, the most prayerful countries in the world are among the poorest! Result of the Pew survey showing the most […]

In 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Member States agreed on a minimum educational funding benchmark of 4 to 6 per cent of the GDP, or 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure. This is in recognition of the place of human capital development in the overall development of any nation. Unfortunately, […]

Too much money and other material resources are attached to political offices in Nigeria. This is the major reason contests to occupy the offices have become do-or-die battles, and political office holders in Nigeria prefer to die in office than resign like their counterparts in other countries, even after suffering damaging scandals or physical incapacitation.  It is […]

Politics apart, there is no other earthly reason for the continued stay of Alhaji Mohammed Bello Matawalle, President Bola Tinubu’s Minister of State for Defence, in office. Matawalle is the immediate past Governor of Zamfara, one of the poorest states in the federation. The minister shot into political prominence by sheer fluke. He was the governorship candidate […]

IN spite of the existence of numerous quality assurance federal agencies, Nigerian agricultural products continue to be rejected abroad, thus making nonsense of efforts to diversify our foreign currency earning capabilities. In May this year, one of the agencies responsible for promoting quality assurance for our agricultural exports, the National Agency for Food and Drugs […]

Nigeria had many plausible reasons for copying the presidential system of government that we practise from the United States of America. The framers of the 1979 constitution, which was essentially upgraded in 1999, saw the need to establish a stabler political system other than the British parliamentary system that is far more fluid. The second reason was […]

WE call on Nigerians, especially those directly involved in the sordid affair of the bombing of civilians to kindly allow an independent and professional investigation of the circumstances surrounding the incident. The Federal Government should team up with the Kaduna State Government to ensure that the truth around the tragedy is unlocked and appropriate measures […]