ZAMFARA State has joined Benue State in moving towards arming its residents to defend themselves against the relentless attacks by terrorists. While herdsmen terrorists are ravaging Benue, Zamfara is one of the states in the far North at the mercy of bandit-terrorists. Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, had in March 2022, called on the people […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has continued to demonstrate its voter-friendly attitude, and this is worthy of commendation. INEC’s strategy of putting technology at the centre of our elections through the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and the electronic transmission of results from the polling units to its central servers […]

FOLLOWING the judgement of the Supreme Court allowing female students and pupils to wear the hijab (the Islamic veil) in public schools, the Lagos State Government should quickly do the needful to lay the controversy to rest. The Supreme Court had, on June 17, 2022, in a split decision, ruled that female Muslim students have […]

ONE of the reasons Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world is that the country of more than 200 million people lacks viable sources of energy to produce, create employment and take care of its citizens. Successive administrations have utterly failed to provide electric power supply. The 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party, […]

THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned to Lagos last Sunday after emerging his party’s flagbearer in the presidential primaries that took place nearly a fortnight ago at the Eagles Square, Abuja. The euphoria of his supporters was truncated at the Adeniji-Adele area of Isale Eko as Tinubu, a […]

THE Ekiti State governorship election, which took place over the past weekend, held a lot of significance beyond the election of a new governor to replace outgoing Governor Kayode Fayemi. It was an opportunity to put the recently amended Electoral Act 2010 into practice. The most interesting feature of that amendment which President Muhammadu Buhari […]

THE complaints over poor welfare of Nigerian judges and judicial staff as a whole bespeak of the low regard that the Nigerian system pays to the law enforcement institutions of our government. It is common knowledge that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, is one of the most neglected federal agencies. This is why it is […]

SUCCESSIVE governments in Lagos have taken measures to curb the menace of commercial motorcycles, also known as Okada. But weak enforcement has led to serial failures. This has in turn emboldened the perpetrators from all over the country and beyond to see Lagos as the place to be. These perpetrators include cartels of sponsors and […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s persistent assurances that he will ensure a smooth transition to the next administration come May  29, 2023, are very heart lifting. His open commitment in this regard is one of the most proactive actions he has taken in his seven years as Nigeria’s president. On December 11, 2021, while participating in the […]

TOMORROW, Saturday 18th June 2022, is Election Day in Ekiti State in the South-West geo-political zone. It is one of the off-cycle governorship elections to determine who will be the next governor after the regime of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the incumbent. Sixteen political parties and their candidates are “battle ready” for this democratic exercise. However, […]