Tackling light arms proliferation
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons across Nigeria is not a distant threat; it is an immediate, corrosive reality that bleeds communities dry of security, livelihood and hope. Pistols, assault rifles and improvised firearms have become the currency of violence, multiplying the lethality of banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes and organised crime. Where once […]
Playing pranks with minimum wage
It is not surprising that some of the state governors have resorted to playing pranks with the new national minimum wage after over a year of negotiations with Organised Labour towards the enactment of a law to cement the issue. The state governors were part of the Federal Government’s tripartite committee which met for over […]
Kenya people’s show of power
Kenya is not Nigeria. This is perhaps the best way to summarise the victorious mass actions of the Kenyan people which forced the government of President William Ruto to back off from the tax-laden finance bill already passaged in the parliament. Like Nigeria’s, the Kenyan economy is in distress. The international lending organisations, such as […]
Beyond the South-East Development Bill
ON February 22, 2024, the Senate passed the South-East Development Commission, SEDC, Bill, thus concurring a similar action already taken in the House of Representatives sequel to the Bill’s initiation by Hon. Benjamin Kalu (APC Bende Federal Constituency, Abia). It is safe to assume that the Bill is on the desk of President Bola Tinubu, […]
Reviving Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013), popularly known as Chinua Achebe, is regarded in the Western world as the father and central figure of modern African literature — a title which Achebe, in his characteristic humility, rejected. Achebe, born in Ogidi, in modern day Anambra State of Nigeria, was a novelist, poet and critic. His first novel, […]
Failure to prosecute 50,000 terror suspects
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. […]
