IN many ways, the #EndSARS protest of 2020 reminds us of the June 12, 1993 presidential election whose annulment led to serious political crises and loss of lives. Like June 12, 1993 which was the freest and fairest election ever held in Nigeria, #EndSARS was the cleanest, best organised and most patriotic protest ever held […]

IT is unfortunate that Nigerians are no longer paying enough quality attention to the manner in which our financial resources are being allocated and spent, especially through the annual appropriation Acts. We as citizens should be interested in how our political leaders are spending taxpayers’ money to ensure that enough is being put into areas […]

THESE are not the best of times for the people and government of Nigeria. The security situations we face as a nation are enough to discourage the people and rob them of their faith in the ability of their government to sustain the Federal Republic against the onslaught of foreign-driven agents of national disintegration. Unfortunately, […]

LAST week Wednesday, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, served notice that if necessary, the Federal Government might declare a state of emergency to restore peace and ensure that the governorship election holds in Anambra State. We join well-meaning Nigerians to kick against the deployment of emergency rule to solve political or […]

ORDINARILY, President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of N75,000 for students of Education in our public universities and polytechnics and N50,000 in Colleges of Education per semester should be cheered by all education-loving Nigerians. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said at the celebration of this year’s World’s Teachers Day in Abuja on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, that […]

EVEN before it was designated the capital of Nigeria in 1914, Lagos had always enjoyed a special status. It was even a colony of its own before amalgamation, and it did not become part of the Western Region until the first creation of states by General Yakubu Gowon in 1967. By the time the capital […]

THE Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, must see himself as a Police Chief specially positioned in Nigeria’s history to turn the battered fortunes of the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, around. He is superintending the scheme to add 60,000 men to the staff strength of the Force over the next six years. The […]

NIGERIANS are living with too many shameful things happening within the circles where their affairs are governed.  Leaders of the country abandon the health sector and fly to countries whose systems work to enjoy their services at the taxpayer’s expense, while doctors and other health workers are allowed to strike for over two months over […]

THE need to secure the impending off-cycle governorship election in Anambra State is a national imperative. The government of this country, along with the government and good people of Anambra State, should join hands to ensure a successful election and enduring peace. On Tuesday last week, the country was rudely shocked by the gruesome murder […]

FROM every indication the Nigerian health sector is visibly ailing under the present administration. Besides leading the fight to keep the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, among the world’s lowest in terms of prevalence and impact, the general attitude of this regime to that all-important sector is that of abandonment tinged with oppressive antics. Health is wealth. […]