The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, commemorated annually on June 26, serves as a reminder of the pressing need to address the global menace of drug abuse and trafficking. The theme for the 2023 commemoration is “Building Back Better: Support Treatment, Prevention, and Recovery.”

In today’s turbulent world, it is more important than ever to have peacekeepers willing to put their lives on the line to keep others safe. But who are these peacekeepers? What do they do? And how can we honour them for their service? Peacekeepers are individuals who work with international organisations such as the United […]

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET, and other government bodies charged with early warnings for the annual floods, have alerted Nigerians to prepare early for this year’s flooding which could be worse than that of last year. Nigeria featured among the world’s worst scenes of disasters during the floods of September/October 2022. Entire towns were submerged […]

The rate at which our police personnel attached to “big” men and women are getting killed is no longer acceptable. These officers have been reduced to cannon fodder by the criminals gunning after the people they are sent to protect.

The valedictory session of the just-expired 9th Senate stood out for the several dramas that played out. A senator, Orji Kalu (APC, Abia), wept over what he saw as his maltreatment by the system. But what really ruffled feathers within and outside the “hallowed” Red Chamber was Senator Mohammed Bulkachuwa (APC, Bauchi’s) Freudian slip which […]

We commend the 10th session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the smooth and rancour-free manner in which the elections of their principal officers were conducted. At the end, the losers congratulated the winners, thus immediately putting behind the fierce rivalries that foreshadowed the contests. The 10th National Assembly is now fully empanelled, […]

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 […]

Unusually brisk pace has attended the Federal Government’s determination to share powers with the states on electricity supply. It has apparently dawned on the Federal Government that its continued monopolistic hold on electric power has been the primary reason that the nation has been unable to move forward in power generation, transmission and distribution. In […]

We wonder what criteria the anti-graft agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, use to determine which suspected corrupt ex-political officeholders to go after when they leave public offices? Immediate past Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika’s name has been trending for about three weeks over the naked impunity of an alleged swindle […]

THE 10th Session of the National Assembly will be inaugurated today, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The inauguration by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be preceded by the election of the President of the Senate and Deputy President of the Senate, as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Speaker as […]