THE Nigerian public, especially the electorate who fought hard to obtain their PVCs and stood under the weather, sometimes in threatening circumstances to vote, must keenly watch proceedings at the various election petition tribunals. The same way that it is our constitutional right to vote and be voted for, it is also our civic duty […]

NIGERIA is battling a severe outbreak of diphtheria – a highly contagious bacterial infection. The disease has been spreading rampantly throughout the country, posing a significant threat to public health and necessitating immediate action. Diphtheria is an infectious disease caused by the Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacterium which produces toxin that primarily affects the respiratory system and […]

NIGERIANS have surprisingly reacted with remarkable aloofness to the recent “state of emergency” on food security announced by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government.  This might be due to the sub-optimal strategy in unveiling the all-important policy. Given the level of hunger in the land, such a crucial policy should have been announced by the […]

SHORTLY after their swearing in, the Service Chiefs appointed by President Bola Tinubu, have swung into action. By the way, we applaud Tinubu for choosing officers who have proven themselves, particularly in combat postings. The situation on our hand is not for armchair Generals appointed because of political connections to merely occupy opulent, powerful and […]

IT would appear that the 36 governors of the federation have not got the message from the populace that the cash transfer policy is not a credible and acceptable system of cushioning the effects of petrol subsidy removal. After President Bola Tinubu wisely backtracked from his earlier intention to share N500 billion to 12 million […]

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 […]