RECENTLY, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’ Allah, called on the Federal Government to establish a mechanism for assessing Nigerian university professors to determine their contributions to the industry and national development.

FOR over seven years, the nefarious activities of unpatriotic citizens have been producing soot which has been polluting the air around Port Harcourt and its environs, such as Obio/Akpor, Ikwerre, Oyigbo and the Ogoni areas.

The 2023 political season started flowering towards the end of 2021 when the various regions and geopolitical interest groups began staking claims for their right to produce the next president. Already, several presidential aspirants have emerged. These include former presidential adviser, Dr. Doyin Okupe; corporate mogul, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa; former Deputy Governor of the CBN, […]

IN an interview last Sunday with one of the major national newspapers, Major-General Henry Ayoola (retd) probably spoke the mind of most Nigerians. The voice of the people, they say, is the voice of God. Ayoola said: “Our politicians are not concerned about making the system work…. It is obvious that they are only concerned […]

THE Senate and the House of Representatives now appear more pro-people in some of their recent actions. The big, pleasant surprise came from the Senate whose President, Ahmed Lawan, had acted as an unapologetic rubberstamp of the Presidency. The Senate’s recent indictment of the Police, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes […]

THE President of the European Union, Charles Michel, correctly captured the relationship between humans and the planet Earth which is our home. He said at the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, that we have been at war with nature, and it is time for the war to stop to enable us rehabilitate the Earth […]

IT is said that if a candidate is allowed to mark his own examination papers, he will give himself straight “A’s”. Politicians are fond of giving themselves pass marks no matter how abysmal their performance is. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is fond of making sweeping promises is also very adept at giving himself unmerited praise […]

UNKNOWN to many Nigerians, there is a greater evil silently ravaging the country now than the prevailing insecurity – the killing of innocent people, including family members, for money rituals. Why are cases of this scourge rising every day? How did we get here, and what are the solutions? Only recently (and it has almost […]

UNLESS sanity prevails, the nation might be plunged into another round of strikes by university staff unions, the second this year. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, after waiting in vain for nine months for the Federal Government to fulfill its agreements with the Union, has served a three-week strike notice. Also, the Joint […]

AMONG the many sayings attributed to the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, there is one that best captures the totality of who he was: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Last week, when the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, officially banned single-use plastic among its staff members, it was probably following the footsteps of the 400-staff members of the United Nations Climate Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, who chose to endure the heat instead of enjoying the ozone-depleting, energy-guzzling comfort of air-conditioners. At Bonn, it […]

SEPTEMBER last year, the House of Representatives, acting on a motion moved by one of its members, Ibrahim Isiaka (APC, Ogun), decided to set up a special committee to investigate why the “prices of food items, commodities, goods and services have skyrocketed by as much as 100 per cent in many parts of Nigeria in […]

In the frenzy of the 2021 Yuletide and 2022 Appropriation Bill legislative actions, the Federal Government had quietly rolled out the National Development Plan 2021-2025. This is the latest economic blueprint of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, even as it begins to wind down in 17 months time. Nigeria has had over a dozen development […]

IN passing the contentious Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the National Assembly took two decisions which have gone down well with the people as they will promote our democratic practice and enhance the search for better quality leaders, especially in the 2023 general elections. The first of these is restoring the power of the Independent National […]

NIGERIANS deserve congratulations for winning the epic legislative battle for electronic transmission of their votes in future elections. This should be a lesson for us to pay close attention to proceedings in our various legislative houses. It has been proved, times without number, that our so-called representatives often do not represent us but themselves. Under […]