NFF: Need for a new beginning
Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]
Clamours for a new Constitution
The calls for the promulgation of a brand-new Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria are growing. Our 1999 Constitution has never been a darling of the more progressive sections of our society because it is seen essentially as a military decree imposed on Nigerians by the departing transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Some […]
Pay raise for judicial officers
The third arm of government saddled with administering our criminal justice system should not in any way be tied to the apron strings of any of the other arms except within the principle of mutual checks and balances for maximum performance.
Out-of-school-children: Prosecuting errant parents
On Wednesday last week, the Senate advocated for the prosecution of parents who fail to send their children to school in line with the Universal Basic Education Act. They called for the establishment of mobile courts to try such parents and guardians. This is to reduce the 20 million load of Out-of-School-Children, OSC, which Nigeria […]
Need for zonal development bodies
Members from almost, if not all, the six geo-political zones have submitted requests or bills to the National Assembly for the creation of a federal-funded regional body for the development of their geopolitical zones. Already, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been in operation since 2000 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo yielded to agitators’ […]
Lagos emergency food markets
Some weeks ago, the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a media outing, unfolded his government’s plan to introduce “Sunday Markets” where staple food items procured by his government under special arrangements, would be sold to the residents at reduced prices. The programme, which kicked off on Sunday, March 17, 2024 in some of […]
Enough of Hisbah impunity in Kano
That someone is fasting should not in any way curtail the civil liberties and constitutional rights of others.
CBN’s donation of fertilisers
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Yemi Cardoso, last week handed over 2.15 million tonnes of fertilisers worth N100 billion to the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari. He said it was the Bank’s contribution to the Federal Government’s effort to drastically reduce the current unbearable cost of food. He said government’s […]
Ukrainian food for hungry Nigerians!
The recent donation of 25,000 tons of wheat grain to Nigeria by war-torn Ukraine has sparked off a needless political huff which is obviously purposed to divert attention from the poor picture it paints of our country in the eyes of dignified Nigerians. The donation, which is part of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s “Grains […]
Death threat on Remi Tinubu
About a fortnight ago, a Bauchi-based Islamic preacher, Idris Tenshi, called for the “killing” of wife of the President, Senator Remi Tinubu, on grounds of being an “infidel” married to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim. The first lady is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG. Tenshi was quoted to have said: […]
Stop the hunger-driven looting now!
A FAIR idea of what anarchy looks like was witnessed in Lagos after the October 20, 2020 Lekki Toll Gate shooting. Patriotic Nigerian youths, responding to police brutality in Delta State, staged a series of street protests code-named with the hashtag: #EndSARS. It was initially a demand for the disbandment of the Special AntiRobbery Squad, […]
