THE Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, recently suspended aspects of the operational specifications of the Boeing 737 aircraft of Max Air Ltd due to a series of ugly incidents which nearly cost the airline and the nation dearly. The airline’s planes have been involved in at least four recent incidents, including loss of landing gears […]

THE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government is rapidly creating two different worlds – one for the leaders, and the other for the rest of the citizenry. On the very hour he was sworn in on May 29, 2023, he fast-forwarded the implementation of the petrol subsidy removal, which was supposed to take effect from the […]

IT was probably more than a coincidence that President Bola Tinubu met a cross-section of Nigeria’s traditional rulers within the first ten days of his administration. The meeting was a reminder of the age-old call for constitutional roles for traditional rulers in Nigeria. What we have now is a loose arrangement whereby the various states […]

We join other well-meaning Nigerians to express our disgust over the maltreatments being meted to the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Security Services, DSS. The Service and the Governor went head to head following efforts by the former to arrest and interrogate Emefiele […]

There may be some element of certitude in the brazen allegation by controversial Dokubo Asari that elements in the Nigerian Army and Navy are involved in the large-scale oil theft in the Niger Delta which directly attacks our main source of foreign exchange earnings. The continued burning of vessels by our security forces in collusion […]

Nigerians are delighted that President Bola Tinubu is set to roll out some relief measures to cushion the biting effects of the implementation of petrol subsidy removal. But we are firmly opposed to his resort to the discredited “cash transfer” approach. The President said: “The palliative is coming. I don’t want cash transfer to fall […]

The people of Senegal have once again shown their resolve to preserve the sanctity of their democracy. For the second time in 11 years, the people came out en masse, braving the bullets of the security forces to truncate the unpatriotic tenure elongation ambitions of their leaders. In 2012, the people had also trooped onto […]

Barely a month after he was sworn in as Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu has been handed the mantle as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. Coming so close to the tenure of former President Muhammadu Buhari, this honour holds a special significance for Nigeria.

It is as if the EndSARS protests of October, 2020 never happened. Police wickedness and brutality have returned with full force and the hapless youth are once again being targeted for intimidation, harassment, extortion and even killing. This was exactly what brought out the Nigerian youth in weeks of protests which ended with the Lekki […]

World Population Day, instituted by the United Nations, UN, is observed annually on July 11. Its goal is to raise awareness about the challenges and issues surrounding rapidly growing populations across the globe. The UN established this day to remind nations of the significance of understanding and addressing these population-related concerns. This year, the theme […]

If indeed the Tinubu government has given Asari security contract to do the work of our Armed Forces and Police, is this what the President means by new “doctrine” and “architecture”? We need explanations because we doubt that this strategy will augur well for Nigeria in the long run, as the Sudan experience has shown.

In recent years, the Chinese Navy’s increasing presence in African nations has raised eyebrows and spurred curiosity about its true motivations. These tours, involving various warships, have taken place in several African countries, prompting questions about China’s diplomatic objectives and their underlying impact on these nations. African countries visited by the Chinese Navy’s warships include […]

It is the same old song and dance. This time, it is about Trademore Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, which has come under the threat of the bulldozers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, for demolition. A little over a week ago, the residents of the estate were shocked when a one-hour heavy downpour led to […]

Unusually brisk pace has attended the Federal Government’s determination to share powers with the states on electricity supply. It has apparently dawned on the Federal Government that its continued monopolistic hold on electric power has been the primary reason that the nation has been unable to move forward in power generation, transmission and distribution. In […]

Last week, the leader of the European Union Election Observation Mission, EU-EOM, Barry Andrews, issued the Mission’s final report on the highly-disputed 2023 general elections in Nigeria, with some  hard knocks while making recommendations for improved elections in the future. The final report was basically an affirmation of its initial report issued barely two days […]