THE situation in the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has gone beyond “reforms”. We need a brand-new Police establishment. What we have now is a mere laughingstock, if what we experienced during the recently-concluded general elections are anything to go by. The Police are supposed to be the primary law enforcement agency to maintain day-to-day law […]

WHOEVER gets sworn in as the President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023, must see to the speedy completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex Limited, ASCL, as one of our topmost, urgent national priorities. This gargantuan project has been described as a symbol of Nigeria’s inability to handle really big things; a symbol of irredeemable […]

FOR the first time since 2014, Nigeria is enjoying a bit of cheering news that its terrorism challenges have been on a steady decline. The Global Terrorism Index, GTI, now ranks Nigeria eighth, an improvement on our sixth ranking in 2021.  Also, the Institute for Economic and Peace, IEP, in its Terrorism Index published in […]

ON Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the Directorate of State Services, DSS, issued a statement, alerting Nigerians that it had identified “some key players” involved in an alleged plot for an interim government in Nigeria. According to the statement issued by the Service’s spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya, the alleged plotters plan to sponsor a series of […]

RAMADAN is here again. It is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the most propagated month in the Islamic sphere, when Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days. Last Wednesday, the moon was sighted as declared by the President-General, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, and the Sultan of Sokoto, signaling the commencement […]

NO matter who is sworn-in as the next President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023, he must commit from Day One, to overhaul our electoral process to make it more accountable, credible and acceptable. He must emulate the noble gesture of the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua, who admitted that the election that brought him […]

UNLIKE any other time in our post-Civil War history, ethnic profiling has enjoyed a free rein in the past eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as president of Nigeria. It has shown up both within and outside the electoral season. In June 2017, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, issued what it called a notice […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration and the National Assembly led by Senate President Maina Lawan deserve a pat on the back for successfully moving the power to build and operate power grids and railway systems from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List. The overloading of the Exclusive List with Federal powers by the Military for […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the 9th National Assembly presided over by Senator Ahmed Maina Lawan, have given Nigerians a parting gift: devolution of some powers, which were erstwhile exclusively wielded by the Federal Government, to the states. Top among them are: empowerment of the states to build electric power stations and generate, distribute and transmit […]

TRADERS all over Nigeria live in daily dread of the possibility that their wares and shops could be destroyed by fire. Just a few weeks ago, the popular Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State went up in flames in what was suspected as an arson attack by terrorists. Governor Babagana Zulum immediately promised a N1 […]