Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
Rebuilding Okuama community
On May 8, 2024, the Nigerian Army, which had occupied Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State for almost two months, withdrew after receiving a signal “from above”. The Army invaded the community on March 14, 2024 after 17 of its officers and men “on a peace mission” were ambushed and gruesomely murdered. […]
Dust over failed National Anthems
Last week, the bid by members of the National Assembly to restore the old National Anthem: Nigeria We Hail Thee, made a surprisingly speedy progress to the third reading in the House of Representatives. It also got read a second time in the Senate. It would have been passed if some senators had not insisted […]
Making our waterways safer
The avoidable and untimely demise of ace Nollywood actor, John Paul Odonwodo, alias Junior Pope and others on April 10, 2024 in a boat mishap on Anam River, Anambra State, during a filming operation brought back to the front burner the need for governments at all levels to pay closer attention to the safety needs […]
Dangers of power subsidy removal
WITH a few days to the first anniversary of the President Bola Tinubu administration, the Federal Government has a great opportunity to have another look at its draconian economic policies which, in our view, have harmed more than helped the economy. In rapid succession, the Federal Government implemented petroleum subsidy removal, abolished the naira exchange […]
Let’s debate the LGA question
One of the great disservices that the General Abdulsalami Abubakar transitional regime did to Nigeria was its failure to empanel a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution before handing over in 1999. It simply amended the 1979/1989 Constitutions with some amendment clauses derived from the General Sani Abacha Constitution of 1996. In effect, they […]
