It is so perturbing that Nigeria has been able to prosecute only 300 out of more than 50,000 jihadist terror suspects. The confirmation of this figure by the Director General of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, NARC, retired Major General Garba Wahab, at a round table discussion forum in Abuja recently, put it beyond fiction. […]

We urge President Bola Tinubu to favourably consider the calls from various quarters for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu without further delay. In recent weeks, the clamour for Kanu’s freedom has come from several sources. Ijaw leader and Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, […]

Minister of the Interior, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, in a recent duty round, told reporters that the Federal Government was considering removing the Ikoyi Prisons and others like it located deeply in populated urban areas to new locations. This has sparked heated debates on the social media. Critics feel that government wants to move these correctional […]

Unless wise counsel prevails, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, may begin its threatened nationwide enforcement of its ban of sachet alcohol. This will be in total negation of the compromise brokered by the House of Representatives between the Agency and industry stakeholders in February 2024, whereby a five-year moratorium […]

Over the past one year, the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has quietly been undergoing radical changes, pushing close to the perfect picture of the Customs needed for the actualisation of the economic reform visions of the President Ahmed Bola Tinubu administration. In June 2023, Tinubu appointed Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, a former Spokesman of the Customs, […]