THE 15th session of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP15, which began December 7 and ends today December 19, 2022, in Montreal, Canada, is a continuation of the quest by the caring world to halt the ongoing rapid loss of earth’s diverse plant and animal life, called biodiversity – the sum of all living things […]

GRADUALLY, the Federal Government is building up the hope of the Nigerian people towards the 2023 general elections. More Nigerians have come to see the possibility of an election in which their choices at the polls will be respected. Since he signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill after a protracted battle of wits, President Muhammadu […]

FROM today, Thursday December 15, 2022 to January 15, 2023, Nigerians travelling to the Eastern parts of the country will have the rare and exciting privilege of riding on the brand new Second Niger Bridge. The Federal Government declared this bonanza to eastward travellers as a Christmas package. According to the Minister of Works and […]

AS the President Muhammadu Buhari government gradually winds down, there is a growing trend among its highly-placed officials to defy laws put in place in the Constitution to ensure accountability. First, it was the refusal of the Chiefs of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to […]

THE Federal Government has, at last, yielded to calls by well-meaning Nigerians to investigate the crude oil theft which has left our economy haggard, despite the oil boom that other oil-producing economies experience. The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, had in October this year, prevailed on the Federal Government to institute a Judicial Panel of […]

NIGERIAN youths, especially those graduating from institutions of higher learning, do not need to be warned or reminded that the days of automatic white-collar employment opportunities are gone. The Acting Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Christy Uba, reiterated this reality at the swearing-in of Batch “C” Stream II Corps members throughout […]

THE National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD’s, recent alarm of a looming mass migration of no less than 4,000 of its members in the nearest future should call for an emergency meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government with the medical service unions to discuss the stoppage of such a haemorrhage. But, of course, no such […]

THERE is an epidemic of vandalism and theft of school furnishings in Akwa Ibom State. It has been going on for quite a while, and the state government appears powerless to stop it. In March 2022, Government Primary School, Aka Offot in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, was serially vandalised and its roofing sheets, wash hand basins, […]

WHEN the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, raised the alarm a couple of months ago that some fifth columnists are working against the use of proven technology to fight rigging in the 2023 general elections, some accused them of being false alarmists. CUPP had claimed that the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC’s, Voter’s Register was […]

THE President Muhammadu Buhari administration appears determined to be remembered for one or two things after almost eight years of rudderless leadership. About a fortnight ago, embattled Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced  restoration of History as a subject in our basic education curriculum after 15 years of its unconscionable exclusion. On Wednesday, November 30, […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari government hardly takes responsibility for its failings. It is very well known for making grandiose promises and shifting blames to other parties. Up till date, the regime keeps blaming “previous regimes” even after almost eight years it was given to fix problems that it met. After the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting […]

To show they are not only mandated to protect the government and the state alone, the Directorate of State Services, DSS, routinely issues public security advisories to enable the citizenry play their role in their own security and that of society. Apart from advisories on possible terror attacks, the Service also harps on the need […]

THE name of Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, is being dragged all over the place due to an indiscretion that more matured handling could have avoided. It all started when Aminu Mohammed, a student of Environmental Management and Toxicology of the Federal University, Dutse in Jigawa State, tweeted two photographs of Aisha which showed […]

IF for nothing else, the eight-year tenure of renowned journalist, Adamu Adamu as the Minister of Education, will be positively remembered as the era that restored History as subject in the curriculum of the Nigerian educational system. As part of plans to put the scheme in place, the Minister partnered the Nigerian Educational Research and […]

THE Federal Character principle enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999), has been reduced to an object of ridicule by the very officials mandated to implement it. Instead of concrete action, we see a carnival of empty words and lip service, most likely intended to mislead the public into believing that […]