The only item of public interest in President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day 2024 speech was the steady move towards enacting a new national minimum wage law. The rest was mere run-of-the-mill. It contained very little of the challenges that our democracy faces and efforts to tackle them. The most outstanding of these is the controversy […]

Today, June 17, 2024, is Desertification and Drought Day, an international day set aside by the United Nations to draw attention to desertification and drought, two of the most threatening geographical situations which breed misery among the world’s populations. The day serves as a reminder for individuals, communities and governments to take action in order […]

Zamfara State remains the hotbed of bandit terrorism in Northern Nigeria. It was from here that bandits, consisting mainly of Fulani nomadic herdsmen who turned to crime, spread to nearby states such as Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger and the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Governor of the state, Dauda Lawal, was recently […]

WHAT do we do with our nomads and pastoralists, some of whom have become major perpetrators of insecurity in Nigeria? Some among the once peaceful occupational group has become armed and violent; massacring people, displacing communities all over Nigeria and seizing the lands of indigenous people who had allowed them to graze their livestock when […]

FOR the first time in Nigeria’s history, we have practised unbroken democracy for a quarter of a century. Since the movement of the seat of the Federal Government to Abuja in December 1991 by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, democracy has been given an uncommon impetus to flourish and bear the fruits romantically […]