Nigeria must protect the classroom
“Can Education Survive Attack: The Resilience of Human Communities” is the theme of this year’s International Day to Protect Education from Attack, marked on 9 September. This is very apt for Nigeria as schools reopen for the 2026/2027 session. For a country where children are abducted from schools, the occasion is a painful reminder of […]
Making VIPs pay
AS if to remind the public that he was once an activist lawyer, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, recently moved to ensure that Very Important Personalities, VIPs, who have hitherto enjoyed some free services at our airports will now pay for them. Such services include toll gate, parking and executive lounge fees. […]
Harry and Meghan in Nigeria
British royal couple, Prince Harry and Megan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrived Nigeria last Friday aboard Air Peace, to promote the Invictus Games and mental health among military personnel and Nigerians as a whole. The couple visited at the invitation of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Chris Musa. Harry, a combatant […]
Reps’ intervention on Coastal project
LAST week, the House of Representatives finally stepped into President Bola Tinubu’s Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway controversy with a resolve to ensure that due process is fully restored. Nigerians woke up some weeks ago to the commencement of work on easily the most expensive infrastructural project in Nigeria’s history: a 700 kilometre 10-lane bimodal […]
Let rule of law prevail in Rivers State
The political crisis in Rivers State is fast approaching a blowout point. The two warring sides have dropped all pretences of following a peace accord. The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has mandated the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, consisting mainly of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, carpet-crossers […]
Overburdening the masses
The Muhammadu Buhari leg of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government failed to wave the magic wand they had promised during the campaigns towards the 2015 presidential election. Instead, the economy was left in utter ruins as Buhari handed over to Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023. From Day One, Tinubu deftly transferred […]
