Better deal for indigenous sailors
Nigeria cannot keep applauding its seafarers once a year and then abandoning them to harsh working realities at sea. The renewed call for better welfare is timely because, without sailors, there is no maritime trade, and without maritime trade, the wider economy suffers. The demand for improved welfare is driven by a few hard facts. […]
Nigeria Police Day
The idea of a Nigeria National Police Day is very welcome. We commend the President Bola Tinubu administration for setting aside April 7 every year as the National Police Day to honour our policemen and women who most of the time mortgage their lives, comfort and convenience to ensure that the rest of the population […]
Bracing for this year’s floods
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.
Shaibu and the place of Deputy Governors
The lesson for all sitting Deputy Governors and future ones is that their survival depends one hundred per cent on loyalty to their bosses.
Curbing growing military impunity
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 […]
Air Peace: Payback time
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 […]
Coastal highway: Need for accountability
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.
Chibok: Ten years on
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 […]
Beyond Abuja’s operation sweep
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 […]
Time-up for Africa’s oldies
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 […]
Demarcate, gazette all boundaries
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 […]
