BEFORE the advent of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, the name of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, the regulator of the broadcast industry, rarely made the news because the media generally enjoyed a high degree of press freedom. Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended) provides as follows: “The Press, Radio and Television and […]

IT’S been some time since our military and security operatives received the amount of commendations that have trailed the arrest of suspected perpetrators of the massacre of worshippers at Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State. The tragedy happened on June 5, 2022. The Minister of the Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, had blamed it on […]

IN April this year, the Federal Government disclosed that the railway line it is constructing to Maradi, a city in a foreign country, Niger Republic, would start operation in 2023. The project costs Nigerian taxpayers $1.8 billion. It is being financed with foreign loans, meaning that we and our children will pay for it. The […]

TODAY, August 12, 2022, is the International Youth Day. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, set aside this day to celebrate roles that youths play in advancing society, and to draw attention to the challenges they face in their respective corners of the world. The theme for this year’s celebration is: “Inter-generational Solidarity: […]

With less than two months to the September 28 date for the commencement of the open soapbox campaigns towards the 2023 general elections, it is time to caution politicians, their supporters, jobbers and hacks to walk away from hatred. This clarion call is timely and auspicious. Nigerian politics is bitter and hate-filled. This sad culture […]

SINCE the past two weeks or so, an impeachment threat against President Muhammadu Buhari has been boiling like a cauldron over serial failures of governance, especially insecurity. The move, which is being spearheaded mainly by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in the Senate and House of Representatives, has been described as “laughable” by Buhari’s Information […]

TODAY, Tuesday August 9, 2022, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations sets aside August 9 of every year to draw attention to the need to protect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs designated the universal theme for this year’s celebration […]

FROM the look of things, President Muhammadu Buhari’s sudden ultimatum to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to resolve the strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, within two weeks, was a mere delay tactic. The president gave the ultimatum on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. It expired on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. During […]

IT is quick justice for late little Miss Hanifa Abubakar as her killers, Abdulmalik Tanko and his accomplice, Hashimu Isyaku, have been handed the death sentence by a Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Usman Nababa. In Nigeria, murder and other criminal cases drag on for years, which is why majority of the […]

THE crime of money politics is revisited as a former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, recently claimed that money allegedly played the major role in the emergence of the candidate of his party, Bola Ahmed Bola. Nwajiuba has sued Tinubu and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku […]