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 […]
Biafra Day killings in Aba
Five personnel of the Nigerian Army manning a checkpoint at Obikabia Junction in Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia State, were murdered in cold blood by cowardly militants on Thursday, May 30, 2024. They were on duty to secure peaceful and law-abiding citizens amidst a “sit-at-home” order called by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to honour Igbo people […]
Tinubu’s sour media freedom record
President Bola Tinubu’s one year in office is a mix of pain and relief for the media and journalists. We have seen a leader who opened a smiling face for the media as an industry and yet brandished hard knuckles for a number of media practitioners. Tinubu met media owners and operators in December 2023, listened […]
Preventing prolonged Labour impasse
The “doomsday” was long expected because the two parties to the labour dispute did not approach it with enough spirit of compromise. Organised Labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC – made good their threat to down tools following the failure to agree a new National Minimum Wage, NMW. […]
Tinubu’s students loan scheme
Like many of the programmes he initiated in the first year of his administration, President Bola Tinubu’s innovative Students Loan Scheme made its epileptic journey to reality with the signing of the executive bill, Students Loans (Access to Higher Education) Bill, 2024, into law in April. The Act is a great improvement of an earlier […]
Resumption of oil production in Ogoni land
As preparations towards the resumption of oil exploration and production in Ogoni land continue, the dark clouds are gathering once again, signifying that the leadership of the Ogoni people might not have learnt their lessons from the events that led to the devastation of their land and society nearly 30 years ago. Four prominent Ogoni […]
