Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
The solution to incessant Plateau killings
As at yesterday, December 28, 2023, media reports put the death toll of the Plateau Christmas Eve attack at 195. Specifically, 148 people were killed in Bokkos Local Government Area, 19 in Mangu LGA, and 27 in Barkin Ladi, while 88 persons with severe injuries are being hospitalised. In addition to the massacre, about 1,300 […]
Secure lives of NYSC members or scrap the programme (2)
In 2019, Magdalene Yohanna collapsed at the NYSC Wailo camp, in Ganjuwa LGA, Bauchi State and later died a few minutes after she was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi. She was reported to have been compelled to participate in a task even after complaining of ill-health. In the same year, 27-year-old […]
Secure lives of NYSC members or scrap the programme (1)
How many of our students need to be abducted or killed while trying to fulfill the one-year compulsory National Youth Services programme before the Federal Government that sends them on the journey of uncertainty scraps the service, or find ways of guaranteeing the safety of the youths while they are rendering the so-called national service? […]
Stop hating, start loving, that’s what Christmas means
A moving speech delivered sometime ago by JB Pritzker, Governor of the state of Illinois, USA, at a graduation ceremony of Northwestern University, largely captures the core of Christmas and the revolutionary light Jesus, whose birth is being celebrated today, ignited in our dark souls in a violent world. Pritzker told the audience that the best way […]
Why most prayerful countries are not most prosperous
Normally, the most prayerful countries on earth should be the most prosperous. Unfortunately, according to data released recently by the Pew Research Centre, a non-partisan American think-tank based in Washington D.C., that is not the case. In fact, the most prayerful countries in the world are among the poorest! Result of the Pew survey showing the most […]
