Xenophobic attacks and ANC’s leadership failures
South Africa is once again disgracing itself. The latest wave of xenophobic attacks against African migrants, including Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Somalis, has reopened wounds that should have healed after the shameful outbreaks of 2008, 2015 and 2019. Shops have been looted, businesses destroyed, homes abandoned and livelihoods shattered simply because fellow Africans crossed borders […]
The killing of Rev Father Isaac Achi
ON Sunday, January 15, 2023, at about 3 am, armed Islamic terrorists in a renewed attack on Christians, invaded the Parish residence of Reverend Father Isaac Achi of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, along Daza Road, Kafin-Koro, Paikoro Local Government Area, LGA, of Niger State. The killers set Rev. Achi’s house ablaze, burning him […]
Nigeria at critical juncture
Over the years, several conditions such as incompetent leadership, official insincerity, economic failure, police brutality, corruption, youth unemployment, strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; herdsmen attacks, banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram terrorism and many other horrible conditions, have coalesced into a national anger to bring Nigeria to a critical juncture. As Daron Acemoglu […]
Energy transition and Nigeria’s economy
WITH a combination of technology and environmental-friendly behaviours, humanity will overcome the climate change crisis. There are lots of hope. The key to solution lies in clean and renewable energy. Our actions should not be based on the opinions of profit-driven businessmen who dubiously employ and compromise dishonest scientists to cast aspersion on electric vehicles, […]
Curbing medical tourism in Nigeria
THE Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, at the end of its 206th National Executive Council meeting last weekend in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, bemoaned the toll which excessive medical tourism by Nigerians, especially the political class, has over the decades, taken on the country’s health sector and economy generally. AMLSN lamented that […]
FG and monopoly of legitimate violence
MANY years ago, a legal luminary said that after God, the next most powerful entity in the world is government. This power, derived from the people, flows from government’s exercise of monopoly of legitimate violence. With this fantastic power and right the men who act on its behalf have to openly wield military-grade weapons, even […]
