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 […]

WITH about 36.9 million hectares of arable land, representing 40.48 per cent of the country’s total land area as at 2021, and 70 per cent of youth population (151 million youths), Nigerians should have no reason to be hungry. But unfortunately, there is serious hunger in the land. In the just released 2023 Global Hunger […]

Chigozie Ogbuagu, a commercial tricycle driver from Umuobiala in Isikwuato LGA of Abia State, could not train his younger sister, Uzoamaka, in school. If a quiet Nigerian US-based philanthropist, Mr. Winston Tinubu, had not given scholarship to Uzoamaka and three other girls from that community, six years ago, Uzoamaka would not have had  secondary school […]

IN reaction to the 2023 Christmas Eve massacre in Plateau State, the captain of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Ahmed Musa, wrote: “I am standing against the violence in Plateau State. It’s heartbreaking to witness the recent violence in Plateau State. My thoughts are with those affected. We need to stand together against hate and violence. Let […]

AHMED Musa, current captain of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, has been consistent in his heartfelt call for an end to the recurring massacre of innocent people in Plateau State and other parts of Nigeria. We consider it as important to both chronicle and celebrate Musa’s exceptional responses to our country’s biggest problem […]

The ban on usage and distribution of single-use plastics, especially the non-biodegradable Styrofoam, by the Lagos State Government is good. At least, the ban will draw more attention to the damage careless use of plastics causes to both our environment and our health. However, we plead with the government, at this early stage of the […]

LAST Saturday, January 27, 2024, Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The event called our attention to the fact that Holocaust memorial goes beyond the remembrance of the unfortunate incidents that occurred during the Second World War. It was […]