APRIL 14, 2023 marked nine years of the Chibok School Girls abduction which shook the whole world. That historic incident was Nigeria’s own equivalent of America’s “9/11”, when Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram, invaded the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in southern Borno State, abducting 276 girls at night. It is still a big mystery how […]

WHAT is becoming of our universities? Universities are called such fanciful names as “citadel of learning”, “ivory towers” and others because they are supposed to produced people steeped in learning and refined in character. But they are are now competing with the jungle culture of the motor parks and market places. The rising cases of […]

EXPECTEDLY, ranking members-elect of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party which secured the majority of seats in the Senate and House of Representatives during the recently-held general elections, are soliciting for support for leadership of the National Assembly. Also in the race for Speaker of the House of Representatives is a coalition of opposition […]

THE recent Lagos train accident involving a BRT bus calls attention to the need for routine drug and alcohol tests on commercial drivers. The accident resulted in the loss of eight lives. As of March 16, 2023, 66 out of the 102 crash victims had been discharged while 28 were still hospitalised Reports say traces […]

AFTER the most rancorous election since 1999, the Judiciary is already grappling with the humongous challenge of adjudicating election petitions dumped on its table by aggrieved political parties and their candidates. In Nigeria as in most democracies, the three arms of government play respective roles in packaging and administering elections which produce leadership at all […]