SOMETIMES, people at the helm of affairs portray Nigeria as an unserious and funny country. How else would one describe the ongoing political and impending Turkey jamborees while our children rust away at home due to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU? Shockingly, ministers who should be engaged in finding a […]

Editorial WE call on the Senate to drop the Bill which seeks to criminalise the payment of ransoms by victims of kidnapping or their relations. This piece of legislation does not add much value in efforts to curb the crime. The Senate has already passed an amendment of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013 which prohibits […]

WE are compelled to revisit the issue of zoning and power rotation, hoping that our political leaders will do the needful before it is too late. It is important to remind all Nigerians that zoning is not a mere flight of fancy to pacify agitators. It is a nation-building mechanism which any diverse and heavily […]

A SECTION of the youths of Ghana has demonstrated an exemplary conduct which is worthy of emulation by their Nigerian counterparts. They rejected bags of rice sent to them by their representatives, insisting on the job they were promised during campaigns. Though the event in question happened almost a year ago, the video of it […]

THE Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, retired Brigadier-General Buba Marwa, ruffled the feathers of politicians when he wrote the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, requesting drug tests on all aspirants of the party. Although he made it clear that the tests will also […]

MAY Day had its prehistoric roots in ancient Europe when it was a festival to mark the onset of summer. Its link to the workers movement had to do with the Haymarket riot on May 4, 1886 in Chicago, USA. Workers had peacefully gathered to demand for an eight-hour working day, but some anarchists exploded […]

FRIDAY, April 24, 2022, was a black day in Imo State and the country at large due to the explosion at an illegal refinery in Abaezi Community of Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State which claimed over 120 lives. The scale of the tragedy became obvious when videos of charred remains of the victims […]

THE Governor of Zamfara State, Dr. Bello Mohammed (Matawallen Maradun), took the seat of power in a blaze of populism after benefiting from the misfortunes of his opponents who had defeated him at the 2018 governorship election. He had contested the governorship seat on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, platform and lost to the All […]

RESPECTED legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, recently called for the adoption of an Interim National Government at the end of the Muhammadu Buhari tenure as his idea for permanently curing Nigeria of its multifaceted system failures. At a media conference in Ado Ekiti on Easter Monday (April 18, 2022), Babalola suggested that preparations for […]

APRIL 14, 2022 marked the eighth sad anniversary of the abduction of the 276 Chibok Schoolgirls by Boko Haram Islamic terrorists. That over 100 of them still remain in the terrorists’ den should have been enough reason for the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to be in a sombre mood. Rather than that, we saw a meeting […]

MUCH sentiment is being generated over the United Kingdom’s refugee pact with Rwanda. When this scheme takes off in a couple of months, it will involve Rwanda taking up the asylum of UK-bound migrants – “for a fee”. Illegal migrants (single men) who arrived through the English Channel as from January 2022 will be packed […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari government has finally admitted what has long been public knowledge: Boko Haram and other North East-based jihadist terror outfits have forged alliance with terrorist groups in the North-West and North-Central which the regime calls “Bandits”. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on Wednesday April 13, 2022 after the weekly […]

THE North-West Terrorists which the Federal Government and the military call “Bandits” have come full circle in re-enacting strategies adopted by the Abubakar Shekau’s Boko Haram to hold government to ransom and frustrate our war against terror. On Monday, April 11, 2022, the media carried photos and videos of the terrorists posing with some of […]

THE sad demise of popular gospel singer, Mrs. Osinachi Nwachukwu, allegedly at the hands of her violent and abusive husband, has drawn attention to one of the most troubling threats to family life: domestic abuse. It includes spousal violence, rape, physical and psychological traumas and murder. Marriages and cohabitations which usually start with love, happiness […]

If Christmas is a time to be merry because it marks the birth of the founder of the Christian faith, The Lord Jesus Christ, Easter is the direct opposite. It commemorates the completion of the divine mission of Christ on earth. Easter is a sombre sacrament because it is about the sufferings, crucifixion, death and […]