On May 8, 2024, the Nigerian Army, which had occupied Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State for almost two months, withdrew after receiving a signal “from above”. The Army invaded the community on March 14, 2024 after 17 of its officers and men “on a peace mission” were ambushed and gruesomely murdered. […]

Last week, the bid by members of the National Assembly to restore the old National Anthem: Nigeria We Hail Thee, made a surprisingly speedy progress to the third reading in the House of Representatives. It also got read a second time in the Senate. It would have been passed if some senators had not insisted […]

The avoidable and untimely demise of ace Nollywood actor, John Paul Odonwodo, alias Junior Pope and others on April 10, 2024 in a boat mishap on Anam River, Anambra State, during a filming operation brought back to the front burner the need for governments at all levels to pay closer attention to the safety needs […]

WITH a few days to the first anniversary of the President Bola Tinubu administration, the Federal Government has a great opportunity to have another look at its draconian economic policies which, in our view, have harmed more than helped the economy. In rapid succession, the Federal Government implemented petroleum subsidy removal, abolished the naira exchange […]

One of the great disservices that the General Abdulsalami Abubakar transitional regime did to Nigeria was its failure to empanel a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution before handing over in 1999. It simply amended the 1979/1989 Constitutions with some amendment clauses derived from the General Sani Abacha Constitution of 1996. In effect, they […]

When terrorists attacked several parts of the United States of America with commercial aircraft laden with passengers on September 11, 2001, little did those of us in Nigeria realise that our country would soon become one of the hottest terror spots in the world. Following the murder in government custody of Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf, leader […]

Once again, MultiChoice Nigeria, providers of popular DSTV subscription television services, has come under withering attacks due to its latest upward adjustment of tariffs. Responding to ballooning operational costs which pushed inflation to 33.20 per cent as of April 2024, the company like other providers of goods and services, hiked the prices of its services […]

AS if to remind the public that he was once an activist lawyer, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, recently moved to ensure that Very Important Personalities, VIPs, who have hitherto enjoyed some free services at our airports will now pay for them. Such services include toll gate, parking and executive lounge fees. […]

British royal couple, Prince Harry and Megan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrived Nigeria last Friday aboard Air Peace, to promote the Invictus Games and mental health among military personnel and Nigerians as a whole. The couple visited at the invitation of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Chris Musa. Harry, a combatant […]

LAST week, the House of Representatives finally stepped into President Bola Tinubu’s Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway controversy with a resolve to ensure that due process is fully restored. Nigerians woke up some weeks ago to the commencement of work on easily the most expensive infrastructural project in Nigeria’s history: a 700 kilometre 10-lane bimodal […]