What initially appeared as mere allegation may have started taking a semblance of truth as indications continue to unfold that some staff of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, are actually working hand in glove with some politicians to rig the 2023 general elections. Since the Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, collection exercise began on January 6, […]

WHEN patterns and pictures that preceded a monumental calamity begin to reappear on stage in the current affairs of a society, it is a signal for discerning members of that society to spring into action to avert a repeat of bitter history. As Nigeria observes the Armed Forces Remembrance Day on Sunday, let us also […]

THE Mental Health Act of 2021, which replaces the Lunacy Act of 1958, has been applauded by psychiatrists for quite a number of reasons. First, the Lunacy Act was cruel and outdated.   Unlike the old law, the Mental Health Act of 2021 guarantees the rights of those with mental health conditions. For instance, any person […]

THICK black smoke billowing into the sky at night is a common sight in Nigerian cities, especially in Lagos. One may be forgiven to think it may be a house, a vehicle, or a landfill on fire, if one has never had the opportunity to get nearer one of the sources of the smoke to […]

THE appeal to Muhammadu Buhari, the President and Commander-in-Chief to play his constitutional role by forthrightly leading the armed forces to provide adequate security for the electorate in the 2023 elections is indeed only a mark of respect.  In a civilised society, the President has no choice but to perform his constitutional duties. After all, […]

ON the first day of January 2023, Mike Igini, a past Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Akwa Ibom State used the occasion of the New Year to pass some profound messages to Nigerians which are worth reflecting deeply upon. “The future direction of Nigeria is up to the people…The 2022 […]

WHILE Nigerians are still mourning the gruesome murder of Bolanle Raheem by a police officer on Christmas Day, December 25, 2022, some evil-minded people in our midst who believe our lives are in their hands struck again in the early hours of New Year Day, January 1, 2023. They trailed Mr. Kehinde Fatinoye, a former […]

FOLLOWING the continued killing of innocent Nigerians by police officers, we believe it has become necessary to enforce the already existing mandatory psychological assessment for policemen.  Section 3 (D) of Force Order 237 of the Nigeria Police Force Continuum Matrix, FCM, prohibits police officers from pointing firearms at citizens. Yet, the ugly incidents of killing […]

THE cashless policy introduced in by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is without doubt a step in the right direction given that it is aimed at scaling up financial inclusion and reducing cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism financing, advance fee fraud, graft, ransom payment, extortion, and other crimes.  Facilitating this laudable policy are […]

THE lives of people in every society are considerably shaped by the politics that obtains there, and the politics of every society is shaped by the characters of men and women the people elect to rule over them. The above is true because the economy, social life, education, healthcare and other aspects of every society […]