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 […]
Investors: Charity begins at home
President Bola Tinubu seems to be modelling his unfolding economic agenda and strategy on those of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo started a flurry of international engagements soon after he was sworn in 1999, mainly to secure debt relief or outright debt forgiveness. He felt that as an international eminent person and fresh out of […]
Need to tackle those aiding terrorists
AFTER the fruitful engagement between the House of Representatives and the Service Chiefs, the importance of responding positively to invitations by the lawmakers should be more obvious to those in charge of our military and security services. The Chiefs had stayed away from previous invitations, choosing instead to send their representations. The House had to […]
Africa must take responsibility
The difference between Africa and the others is that while the others asserted their independence to various degrees and maintained most of their original cultural and social norms, Black African countries embraced wholesale Westernism through exposure to their educational and cultural systems.
NBC’s new anti-Social Media Bill
Though we admit that excesses demonstrated through the social media should be curtailed, we believe that the law already has provisions that can serve that purpose.
Judiciary’s bleeding moments
THE Nigerian Judiciary is bleeding profusely from the self-inflicted injuries to its image. At the moment, the body language discernible from the Judiciary is that of an arm of government that no longer bothers about its public image, especially as it pertains to verdicts on political and electoral matters. In the past year, the courts […]
Greetings to Jonathan at 66
Throughout his five years as President, Jonathan never used his enormous powers to oppress or dehumanise political opponents despite being “the most abused” president, as he dryly put it.
Senate’s call for Eastern railways revival
The Eastern railway network should be fully and speedily revived with standard gauge, ensuring that all the four geopolitical zones are reconnected.
Bill for Diaspora suffrage
The sponsor believes that the roughly three million Nigerians living offshore Africa deserve 16 seats in the HOR and four seats in the Senate.
Continued rejection of Nigerian agric exports
It is shocking that regulatory inadequacies continue to dog our efforts to sell our agricultural products in foreign markets.
Sack failing Directors
It is outrageous to learn that the bulk of the senior Directors calling the shots in the Civil Service of the Federal Government are dunces. A recent examination for the promotion of Directors to Permanent Secretaries produced mass failures. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, last week, revealed that […]
