There is absolutely no further justification to continue condoning the activities of the so-called “palliatives” looters. Enough is enough! Over one week since ‘unknown’ soldiers marched to the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos venue of the EndSARS protest and shot at unarmed youth, incidents of looting are still being reported in some parts of the country. […]

WE commend the sustained efforts of the Lagos State Government to rally the residents of the state towards putting behind the recent harrowing experience of arson and looting of government and private property following the shooting of unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate. Apart from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s personal rhapsodic open letter to the […]

Every prolonged mass action always carries with it the risk of law and order breakdown. Criminals are always on the lookout for opportunities. The two week-long peaceful #EndSARS nationwide protests eventually dissolved into anarchy, burning and looting following the invasion of the Lekki Toll Gate and the killing of unarmed protesters on Tuesday October 20, […]

IT has now been established that the #EndSARS protest objective goes beyond merely abolishing the crime-prone Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, or renaming it Special Weapons and Tactics, SWAT. It is about system change, not mere regime change. Regime change is just like renaming FSARS. The Nigerian youth are tired of being governed the way […]

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 will forever be remembered as the day that armed soldiers were unleashed on peaceful #EndSARS at the Lekki Toll Plaza, killing and injuring yet-to-be-specified numbers of young men and women. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had announced a 24-hour curfew, starting from 4.00pm that day. The curfew deadline was later shifted to 9.00pm. […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been on its latest strike since March 23, 2020. Prolonged strikes have been part of the unenviable traditions of the Union. They date back to the 1970s, and this has contributed in no little way in devaluing tertiary education in Nigeria, part of the very objectives that […]

The #EndSARS protests have crossed a two-week threshold. It is the longest-running and unbroken protest since our return to civil rule in 1999. It is also the first time the Nigerian youth have risen in one accord against the atrocities of the disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, which had become notorious for extortions, extrajudicial […]

The clamour for restructuring has never been louder at any other time than this moment in our history. Some sectional groups which used to stand firmly against it have joined the call to remodel the political and administrative architecture of the country. In recent years, the South and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum, SMBLF, consisting of […]

The Muhammadu Buhari regime has since inception taken some unpopular, questionable and objectionable decisions in terms of policy options and appointments which are antithetical to the Constitution and the nation’s over all interests. These include appointments into public offices bordering on nepotism, rejection of assent to bills for electoral reform, attempts to confiscate people’s lands […]

Though we fully support the removal of subsidy on the downstream petroleum products (particularly premium motor spirit, petrol), the Muhammadu Buhari administration will still take the blame for bringing it on at a most inauspicious time when Nigerians were still struggling to survive both the medical and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Deregulation should […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has abundantly shown his commitment to the welfare of workers and retirees. Being a career public servant, this inclination is easy to understand. This is evident in his approval of payment of the Nigerian Airways retirees, the speedy assent to the new National Minimum Wage and several bailouts to the states to […]

The Federal Government’s efforts to diversify not just the economy but also our ill-advised sole dependence on the Lagos Ports is moving steadily, as the Onitsha Inland Port has finally gone into operation. This is commendable sequel to the full commencement of operations by Maerskline at the Onne Port this year after quitting the Lagos […]

The long-awaited off-cycle governorship election in Ondo State comes up tomorrow, October 10, 2020. Even though some sabre-rattling and isolated political skirmishes shadowed the campaigns, it is gratifying to note that the atmosphere appeared to have calmed down towards the actual election date. The peace accord signed by the contending parties on Tuesday, October 6 […]

It is time that leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, stopped pussy-footing over the current bleak security situation and the prospects of the region becoming the world’s most fertile ground for Islamic terrorist networks. These networks, such as Al Qaeda, Jama’at Nasr al Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, armed herdsmen and the […]

Due justice has come to Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo (PDP, Adamawa North) who triggered a national outrage when he physically assaulted a nursing mother at an adult toy shop in Abuja on May 11, 2019. Following the firestorm of public opprobrium, Abbo, who had initially appeared defiant, was forced to apologise to the victim, Ms. […]