Nigeria’s worsening crime numbers
In the past decade, Nigeria’s name has become increasingly associated with crime, insecurity, and institutional decay, at home and abroad. Official corruption, weak institutions, terrorism, banditry, and the routine kidnapping of schoolchildren for ransom have normalised a national crisis that has eroded public trust and damaged the country’s global standing. The crimes not only persist; […]
Judiciary urgently needs reforms
The Nigerian Judiciary is in a bad shape. This is not surprising, since the Judiciary is also a part of our terribly malfunctioning system. To identify where to start the reform of the Nigerian society from, we must return to the mantra the late former Justice of the Supreme Court, Anthony Aniagolu, always trumpeted: “To […]
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 […]
