Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
EFCC’s return of Enugu State assets
This role played by the EFCC in the Enugu State asset recovery saga has shown the importance of having a federal body which is capable of salvaging the people’s assets from powerful rogue politicians
Recharging the fight against Malaria
Malaria, a deadly disease whose vector is the insect called mosquito, continues to pose a significant threat to global health. This is why the United Nations, through the World Health Organisation, WHO, celebrates World Malaria Day every year on April 25. The international community has made the fight against malaria a universal undertaking due to […]
Resettling the Plateau IDPs
It is gladdening to see that the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, driven out of their ancestral homes in the past 20 years by armed herdsmen terrorists in Plateau State can now look forward to returning to their homes. Embattled Governor Caleb Mutfwang set up a committee for the implementation of the resettlement plans which will […]
Yahaya Bello’s arrest evasion
ON Wednesday, April 17, 2024, a show of shame to our democracy and disgrace to Nigeria was played out on live television when the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, conflated a web of intrigues to evade arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, operatives. The Commission had obtained an arrest […]
Nigeria Police Day
The idea of a Nigeria National Police Day is very welcome. We commend the President Bola Tinubu administration for setting aside April 7 every year as the National Police Day to honour our policemen and women who most of the time mortgage their lives, comfort and convenience to ensure that the rest of the population […]
