Nigeria must protect the classroom
“Can Education Survive Attack: The Resilience of Human Communities” is the theme of this year’s International Day to Protect Education from Attack, marked on 9 September. This is very apt for Nigeria as schools reopen for the 2026/2027 session. For a country where children are abducted from schools, the occasion is a painful reminder of […]
Bill to cage young doctors unworkable
A BILL ostensibly aimed at curtailing the exodus of young Nigerian doctors to foreign countries for greener pastures has passed the second reading at the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Ganiyu John (APC Alimosho, Lagos), the Bill is for an Act to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act 2004. According to the sponsor, the […]
Why 2023 elections worsened our disunity
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo’s remark that the 2023 general elections have left Nigerians more divided than ever before cannot be faulted. He made the observation at a seminar in Abuja on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The 2023 elections would have passed as just another contestation among candidates and their political parties where virtually everyone involved […]
A blessed Easter to you!
EASTER is a three-day event but which in Nigeria stretches to the fourth day because of the national holidays attached to it. It is the direct opposite of Christmas which marks the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ on December 25. Easter is a very important event in the lives of Christians because it is […]
Wanted: A new Police Force
THE situation in the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has gone beyond “reforms”. We need a brand-new Police establishment. What we have now is a mere laughingstock, if what we experienced during the recently-concluded general elections are anything to go by. The Police are supposed to be the primary law enforcement agency to maintain day-to-day law […]
Need to complete Ajaokuta Steel
WHOEVER gets sworn in as the President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023, must see to the speedy completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex Limited, ASCL, as one of our topmost, urgent national priorities. This gargantuan project has been described as a symbol of Nigeria’s inability to handle really big things; a symbol of irredeemable […]
