To show they are not only mandated to protect the government and the state alone, the Directorate of State Services, DSS, routinely issues public security advisories to enable the citizenry play their role in their own security and that of society. Apart from advisories on possible terror attacks, the Service also harps on the need […]

THE name of Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, is being dragged all over the place due to an indiscretion that more matured handling could have avoided. It all started when Aminu Mohammed, a student of Environmental Management and Toxicology of the Federal University, Dutse in Jigawa State, tweeted two photographs of Aisha which showed […]

IF for nothing else, the eight-year tenure of renowned journalist, Adamu Adamu as the Minister of Education, will be positively remembered as the era that restored History as subject in the curriculum of the Nigerian educational system. As part of plans to put the scheme in place, the Minister partnered the Nigerian Educational Research and […]

THE Federal Character principle enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999), has been reduced to an object of ridicule by the very officials mandated to implement it. Instead of concrete action, we see a carnival of empty words and lip service, most likely intended to mislead the public into believing that […]

IF Nigeria weren’t a country whose fault lines have been exacerbated, the reported discovery and commencement of drilling of one billion barrel crude oilfield and 500 billion cubic feet of gas reserves in the Kolmani fields, should be cheering news for a country that depends almost exclusively on crude oil exports for its foreign exchange […]