S/African Afrophobia: All eyes on AU
President Bola Tinubu was right to take South Africa’s recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks to the African Union (AU). Speaking for him at the AU’s 21st Extraordinary Session in Luanda, Vice President Kashim Shettima called for collective action and urged that the matter be placed on the agenda of the January 2027 General Assembly. That […]
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 […]
Hard lessons for social media trollers
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 […]
Prioritise local investors
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 […]
A plea for Okuama indigenes
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 […]
Senegal, beacon of democracy in Africa
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.
Mobilising to save the economy
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.
President Tinubu at 72
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 […]
Unconstitutional meddling with religions
We strongly believe that religion is the personal affair of all citizens and must be handled as prescribed by the Constitution.
