THE chicken is coming home to roost at last. For the first time ever, the political leadership of this country has flashed the green light over the idea of decentralising the federal monopoly of policing in Nigeria. After President Bola Tinubu’s meeting with state governors last week, the Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris Malagi, announced […]

GOVERNOR Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State reacted very poorly to the protests that rocked Minna, the state capital, and other areas recently over rising hunger and hardship. He blamed the “opposition” for allegedly “sponsoring” them. Some women who were part of the protests were arrested but later released with public apologies from the Governor. […]

PRESIDENT of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Ibrahim Gusau, practically counted Nigeria’s eggs before they were hatched when he told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abidjan that “the Super Eagles will win the AFCON trophy for Tinubu”. Gusau claimed that the Super Eagles’ 1-0 quarter-final victory over Angola was as a result of President Bola […]

TODAY, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Valentine. Ironically, some Christians scoff at it, not knowing that Valentine Day actually originated as a Christian feast that honours a martyr named Valentine. As it evolved through the years, Valentine Day became a “significant cultural, religious and commercial […]

LAST Sunday, Nigerians went to the soccer battlefield against Côte d’Ivoire with multiple dead weights of grief on their minds. Having been buffeted by hunger, insecurity and sundry harsh economic conditions for quite some time, two tragic incidents befell the nation during the 2023 African Cup of Nations, AFCON semi-final and final.  Shortly after the […]

In Nigeria, having a meal is always a joyous moment. But beneath the surface of that joy lies the spectre of food poisoning that often results from chemical contamination. The typical Nigerian cuisine can therefore be joyous one minute, and threatening the next. Pregnant women, for instance, face the risk of toxins silently infiltrating their unborn babies […]

LAST Wednesday, Nigeria beat South Africa 4-2 through penalty kicks to book a place in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, final against hosts Ivory Coast in Ebimpe, Abidjan. Nigeria’s Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, was named Man of the Match after saving two penalties that helped Nigeria limp into the final of the 2023 […]

IN 1999, after retiring soldiers he believed were politically,  Obasanjo preached the gospel of professionalism in the Nigerian Army to the remaining soldiers in the barracks, advising those who wished to practise politics to voluntarily resign from the army. The overall result is the longest period of civil rule in Nigeria (25 years) which has […]

Many Nigerians today, even some children, know the key problems facing Nigeria – insecurity of lives and property, little or no electric power supply, an unproductive economy, corruption, a supposedly federal system of government operating a unitary constitution in a country made up of many nations, a collapsing education sector, a collapsing health care system, […]

THE adoption of the Paris Agreement during the Committee of Parties, COP 15, in 2015 marked a significant milestone in the urgent need to adopt universal actions against climate change. The agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and pursue the 1.5 degrees ideal limit. The COP summits which attract […]