Africa: New scramble by forces of insecurity
Africa is witnessing a scramble for control, but this time the contestants are not colonial powers planting flags. They are terrorist organisations, criminal syndicates, traffickers, mercenaries, kidnappers, and armed groups exploiting Africa’s weaknesses. The result is a continent where insecurity is becoming an alternative system of power. The warning from US Africa Command (AFRICOM) should […]
Emulating the Ghana youth example
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 […]
Metaphor of drug tests for aspirants
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 amid strike fevers
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 […]
After Imo bunkering tragedy, what next?
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 […]
Gov Matawalle’s wasteful spending
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 […]
That Interim Government option
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 […]
Pardons for Nyame, Dariye unacceptable
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 […]
Constructively engaging on the migrant menace
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 […]
FG and the unholy alliance of terrorists
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 […]
Failure to learn from our Boko Haram experience
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 […]
Taking action against domestic abuse
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 […]
Easter, a time to be sober
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 […]
Ensuring effective local government administration
MOST Nigerians have not fully addressed their minds to the latest effort to amend the 1999 Constitution. This is because every session of the National Assembly has always taken it upon itself to tinker with the Constitution, yet the major pillars of the nation’s grundnorm – centralised federalism – remain unchanged. One issue which the […]
Bracing for the coming rains
THE importance of the onset of every rainy season should not be overlooked by anyone living under our climatic conditions. It is not just farmers that should be specially concerned about the pattern of the oncoming rains. Everybody, especially government and those who live in areas that are flood-prone, must be alert and take necessary […]
Planet Earth and our health
This year’s World Health Day which took place on Thursday, April 6, 2022, was themed to converge the health of our planet with those of its inhabitants, especially humans: Our Planet, Our Health. It emphasises that as we continue our reckless pollution of Mother Earth, we are increasing diseases such as cancer, asthma, heart disease […]
