TODAY is Children’s Day in Nigeria. Though the World’s Children’s Day is still six months away – November 20, 2022 – the Nigerian Children’s Day has been celebrated since 1964 on May 27. This year’s universal theme is: “A Better Future for Every Child”. The Nigerian Children’s Day is not a public holiday. Rather, it […]

TO the relief and delight of peaceful and law-abiding Nigerians, more and more Muslim organisations have been condemning not only the lynching of Miss Deborah Samuel at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto by Muslim extremists but also the crime of blasphemy killings or jungle justice. Professor Lakin Akintola of the Muslim Rights Concern, […]

A NUMBER of crises that threatened the ethnic and religious cohesion of Nigerians reared their ugly heads last week.  Apart from the “blasphemy” killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto and the gruesome burning of David Imoh in Lekki Lagos, a clash between traders and commercial motorcyclists (Okada) led to the “indefinite” closure of the Dei-Dei […]

WE welcome the decision of the Nigerian Railways Corporation, NRC, to suspend indefinitely its reported plan  to resume services on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line while scores of passengers abducted by bandit-terrorists remain unaccounted for. The circumstances that led to the abductions smacked of the typical sloppiness of our security setup. The bandit-terrorists have been allowed […]

IT is strange that the two plaintive appeals for the sidelining of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 As Altered) have come from respected and eminent elders who are also seasoned constitutional lawyers. On April 23, 2022, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) called for an interim government which would be asked to give […]

WHEN Nigeria’s power sector was privatised in 2013, there were expectations that the exercise will culminate in increased generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to consumers sector-wide. The reasons were not far to seek. First, it was widely expected that private investors that inherited the assets, including the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, had the […]

ORDINARILY, after 61 years of independence, Nigeria should have developed to the point where any citizen, irrespective of his or her ethnic, religious, sectional or ideological background, should be free to vie for the office of President or Vice President of Nigeria. If these primordial factors no longer mattered but merit and integrity, we would […]

APART from Boko Haram and the North West “Bandits”, armed herdsmen embedded in farmlands and forests all over the North Central and Southern parts of Nigeria constitute the biggest threats to our collective safety. Herdsmen, in times past, were harmless nomads who went about tending to their livestock. But since Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association […]

A WEEK ago, Nigerians were thrown off the euphoric mode of partisan politics when a group of students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, lynched and burnt the body of Miss Deborah Samuel over alleged “blasphemy” of Islam and Prophet Muhammad, SAW. Not only that, hoodlums in Sokoto took to the streets, burning and […]

THE Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, ended his two-day official visit to Nigeria on May 3, 2022 with a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Villa. He had visited victims of terror – the Internally-Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram jihadist terrorism. Guterres expressed […]