Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
Police raid of Labour House
Organised Labour (Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliate unions), were not officially part of the recently-ended #EndBadGovernance protests. Labour appears to have chosen to focus specifically on the core needs of its members rather than being the ombudsman of all socio-economic mass actions. This may be because Nigerians hardly […]
Protest: Justice for slain Zaria teenager
According to Bloomberg Television, the #EndBadGovernance protests claimed 13 lives on the second day, being August 2, 2024. But the fatality that took the attention of all was the killing of a 16-year-old Ismail Mohammed in Samaru Zaria, Kaduna State, by soldiers despatched to quench a riotous situation in the university town. A video surfaced […]
Protests: Metaphor of Russian flag
Usually during protests, aggrieved citizens display the national flag even if they are fed up with the government of the day or its policies. It is a means of reaffirming loyalty to the nation. During the historic #EndSARS protests of October 2020, Nigerian youths from all ethnic divides gathered at the foremost “holy ground” of […]
Ethnic profilers must be punished
“I, …do solemnly swear/affirm that … I will discharge my duties to the best of my ability, faithfully and in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the law… that in all circumstances, I will do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favour, affection or […]
No to palliative governance
There is a Chinese proverb which is very popular among contemporary economists and leaders: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for life”. The path a government chooses in its economic policy making and implementation tells much about its intentions towards […]
