MUCH sentiment is being generated over the United Kingdom’s refugee pact with Rwanda. When this scheme takes off in a couple of months, it will involve Rwanda taking up the asylum of UK-bound migrants – “for a fee”. Illegal migrants (single men) who arrived through the English Channel as from January 2022 will be packed […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari government has finally admitted what has long been public knowledge: Boko Haram and other North East-based jihadist terror outfits have forged alliance with terrorist groups in the North-West and North-Central which the regime calls “Bandits”. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on Wednesday April 13, 2022 after the weekly […]

THE North-West Terrorists which the Federal Government and the military call “Bandits” have come full circle in re-enacting strategies adopted by the Abubakar Shekau’s Boko Haram to hold government to ransom and frustrate our war against terror. On Monday, April 11, 2022, the media carried photos and videos of the terrorists posing with some of […]

THE sad demise of popular gospel singer, Mrs. Osinachi Nwachukwu, allegedly at the hands of her violent and abusive husband, has drawn attention to one of the most troubling threats to family life: domestic abuse. It includes spousal violence, rape, physical and psychological traumas and murder. Marriages and cohabitations which usually start with love, happiness […]

If Christmas is a time to be merry because it marks the birth of the founder of the Christian faith, The Lord Jesus Christ, Easter is the direct opposite. It commemorates the completion of the divine mission of Christ on earth. Easter is a sombre sacrament because it is about the sufferings, crucifixion, death and […]

MOST Nigerians have not fully addressed their minds to the latest effort to amend the 1999 Constitution. This is because every session of the National Assembly has always taken it upon itself to tinker with the Constitution, yet the major pillars of the nation’s grundnorm – centralised federalism – remain unchanged. One issue which the […]

THE importance of the onset of every rainy season should not be overlooked by anyone living under our climatic conditions. It is not just farmers that should be specially concerned about the pattern of the oncoming rains.  Everybody, especially government and those who live in areas that are flood-prone, must be alert and take necessary […]

This year’s World Health Day which took place on Thursday, April 6, 2022, was themed to converge the health of our planet with those of its inhabitants, especially humans: Our Planet, Our Health. It emphasises that as we continue our reckless pollution of Mother Earth, we are increasing diseases such as cancer, asthma, heart disease […]

ON Wednesday, April 6, 2022, the Federal Government continued its gradual relaxation of restrictions on public gatherings which it imposed as a means of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic since April 2020. According to a statement by the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee, PSC, on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha, the Federal Government still insists that […]

As expected, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, moved against the ringleaders of the move to call out personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to a nationwide strike. In mid-March 2022, some of the organisers of the supposed industrial action announced a two-week “warning strike” as a prelude to the main event. […]