ECOWAS — beyond the glitter of new edifices
President Bola Tinubu’s ribbon-cutting for a gleaming new ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja offered a flattering image of ambition — but brick and glass do not heal the fractures that threaten the community’s very purpose. Fifty-one years after its founding in 1975 in Lagos to promote economic integration, collective security, free movement and democratic stability across […]
CBN’s donation of fertilisers
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Yemi Cardoso, last week handed over 2.15 million tonnes of fertilisers worth N100 billion to the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari. He said it was the Bank’s contribution to the Federal Government’s effort to drastically reduce the current unbearable cost of food. He said government’s […]
Ukrainian food for hungry Nigerians!
The recent donation of 25,000 tons of wheat grain to Nigeria by war-torn Ukraine has sparked off a needless political huff which is obviously purposed to divert attention from the poor picture it paints of our country in the eyes of dignified Nigerians. The donation, which is part of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s “Grains […]
Death threat on Remi Tinubu
About a fortnight ago, a Bauchi-based Islamic preacher, Idris Tenshi, called for the “killing” of wife of the President, Senator Remi Tinubu, on grounds of being an “infidel” married to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim. The first lady is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG. Tenshi was quoted to have said: […]
Stop the hunger-driven looting now!
A FAIR idea of what anarchy looks like was witnessed in Lagos after the October 20, 2020 Lekki Toll Gate shooting. Patriotic Nigerian youths, responding to police brutality in Delta State, staged a series of street protests code-named with the hashtag: #EndSARS. It was initially a demand for the disbandment of the Special AntiRobbery Squad, […]
Questions over continued mass abductions
April 14, 2024, will make it 10 years since the first mass school abduction took place in Nigeria. On that day, 278 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno South, were sensationally hauled into captivity. After ten years of manhunt and expensive military actions, over 100 of them remain unaccounted for. Government officials […]
