Since December 30, 2023, when an online medium published an investigative story of how a Nigerian journalist undercover bagged a Cotonou university degree in six (6) weeks and went ahead to participate in the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme, the issue has refused to go. The story did not shock many Nigerians, because we have […]

One of the regrettable, negative fallouts of the 2023 general election was the bad blood it created along ethnic lines among Nigerians in many states in the country. Among those states was Lagos, which was for many years Nigeria’s federal capital before it lost that status to Abuja.   But even after it ceased to be Nigeria’s seat […]

As early as 2018, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd), a former Minister of Defence and elder statesman who has few rivals in the knowledge of what is happening inside the Nigerian Army, told Nigerians to defend themselves against killers in the country, saying the armed forces were not ready to defend them. “Our armed forces are not […]

The current debate on whether Nigerians, who are massacred by terrorists, have right to bear arms for self-defence, is somewhat needles, because there are enough provisions in our Constitution, the constitutions of advanced democracies, international conventions and charters that support the rights human beings have to self-defence. Writing on the subject, James Wilson of Pennsylvania […]

There is a reason humanity has chosen “Happy New Year” as the best wish for one another during this season. The reason is that happiness is the greatest good; the ultimate aspiration of mankind. In their book, “The Art of Happiness”, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dalai Lama, who is also the spiritual leader […]