PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s persistent assurances that he will ensure a smooth transition to the next administration come May  29, 2023, are very heart lifting. His open commitment in this regard is one of the most proactive actions he has taken in his seven years as Nigeria’s president. On December 11, 2021, while participating in the […]

TOMORROW, Saturday 18th June 2022, is Election Day in Ekiti State in the South-West geo-political zone. It is one of the off-cycle governorship elections to determine who will be the next governor after the regime of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the incumbent. Sixteen political parties and their candidates are “battle ready” for this democratic exercise. However, […]

FEW Nigerians expected the sudden craving for registration for the Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, sweeping across the polity today. This is coming especially from the youth who had hitherto buried their heads inside their cell phones, looking for excitement to make them forget the pains of life in Nigeria. INEC’s metrics on voter apathy are […]

THE military government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar set May 29, 1999 as its handover date. It became Nigeria’s Democracy Day after Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who won the presidential election, assumed power. On June 6, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari responded to public yearnings and transferred the Democracy Day to June 12 every year to honour the […]

TODAY, Tuesday, June 14, 2022, is World Blood Donor’s Day, WBDD. First celebrated in 2005, this special International Day was spearheaded by the World Health Organisation, WHO, and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to thank those who donate their blood for the sake of humanity without asking to be […]

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, deserve commendation for their generally hitch-free and credible presidential primaries. The APC comes in for a bigger pat on the back for the courage and patriotic spirit that committed its Northern leadership to ensure that the presidential candidate of the party comes from the […]

When a group of Islamic extremists mobbed and burnt Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto over the alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed, the nation was agog with mixed reactions. While some  extremists remained unrepentant about the fate that befell her, Christians and other people of conscience condemned the […]

PERHAPS for the first time ever, suspected terrorists have attacked a place of worship in the Southern part of Nigeria. Since the August 6, 2018 attack on St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Anambra State was later linked to an alleged drug war, the manner in which the gun attack on St. Francis Catholic Church […]

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is easily one of the most corrupt organs of the Federal Government. Established on June 5, 2000 by the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime, it was meant to be a special intervention to assuage the militant agitations through rapid development and engagement with stakeholders in the oil-producing communities. Responding to […]

THE call by a former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of the Interior, retired Lt-General Abdulrahman Danbazzau, for a comprehensive mop-up of arms and drugs from among the Fulani pastoralists calls for serious attention. Danbazzau was one of the guests at the recent Pastoralist and Fulbe Security Conference organised by the Miyetti Allah Cattle […]

THE “total enforcement” of the ban of commercial motorcycles in specified parts of the Lagos City-State goes into effect today, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. These cover six local government areas, LGAs, and nine local council development areas, LCDAs, in Eti Osa, Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland and Apapa. It also includes the city’s trunk […]

THE Federal Electoral Commission, FEC, of the United States of America where we copied our presidential system from has the main function of enforcement of campaign funding laws. This is to prevent any individuals or vested interests from “buying” government and derailing its purpose of serving the public interest. But here in Nigeria, apart from […]

MEMBERS of the public, especially the youth, have a lot to learn from the daylight drama that played out in the Asokoro, Abuja home of Senator Anayo Rochas Okorocha. On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after hours of siege to Okorocha’s premises, broke into his house through […]

WE are dissatisfied with steps taken so far in dealing with the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, over alleged “blasphemy” of Prophet Mohammed, SAW. From the look of things, government and some individuals and groups in the North want to quickly dispense with […]

IN June 2013, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, EAGMR, announced that Nigeria had become the country with the highest population of out-of-school children in the world with 10.5 million children. Other countries named in the report were: Pakistan 5.1m, Ethiopia 2.4m, India 2.3m, and others. […]