Nigeria must protect the classroom
“Can Education Survive Attack: The Resilience of Human Communities” is the theme of this year’s International Day to Protect Education from Attack, marked on 9 September. This is very apt for Nigeria as schools reopen for the 2026/2027 session. For a country where children are abducted from schools, the occasion is a painful reminder of […]
Properly engaging Niger Rep junta
FROM Day One, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, committed a great blunder by its decision to announce a military adventure purportedly to flush out the junta of Niger Republic led by General Abdourahmane Omar Tchiani. A newly-installed president of Nigeria who a few weeks later was elected Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of […]
Renewed call for Nnamdi Kanu’s release
THE call by a House of Representatives ad hoc committee for the “unconditional” release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is timely as we approach one year after the courts ordered his release. The committee headed by Obinna Iguocha, was empanelled by the Speaker of the House of […]
Standardising our food exports for global acceptability
IT is a shame that up till today, Nigeria has not been able to fix the problems that inhibit the export of our farm products, especially foodstuffs, to other parts of the world. Back in 2017, then Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, raised the alarm that Nigerian yams were not allowed into the United […]
Tinubu’s non-acidic media outlook
WITH the unveiling of the portfolios of his cabinet nominees and their swearing in on Monday, August 21, 2023, the administration of President Bola Tinubu is fully installed and ready to go. The media and social advocacy community waited with bated breath for the appointment of the Presidential Spokesman, Minister of Information and Attorney General […]
Tinubu as oil minister
NIGERIANS received with mixed feelings the apportioning of portfolios to President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet nominees. Some of the appointments were well-received because of the track records of those entrusted with vital posts. For instance, the appointment of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, can revive the fortunes of […]
