THE recent arrest of fake staff of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, at a refugee camp in Niger Republic where they were registering foreign nationals for the Nigerian National Identity Numbers, NIN, is yet another of the numerous acts of violations of Nigeria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity by one of our neighbours. According to […]

ABOUT a fortnight ago, the Federal Government grabbed the headlines with its reported “plan” to end the mass migration of Nigerians to foreign countries. Those who thought that the supposed initiative was coming from President Muhammadu Buhari’s office, discovered that it was the Minister of State, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Henry Ikoh, who merely called […]

THOUGH the Federal Government’s early warning and disaster intervention authorities were prepared for the floods, the sheer scale of the destruction of lives and property it left in its wake still took everyone by surprise. The National Meteorological Agency, NiMET, and the National Hydrological Service Agency, NHSA, had predicted unusual flood volumes this year. A […]

JUST when we thought that the eight month-long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, had ended, the Federal Government is still engaged in its immature, pointless and insensitive antics that could lead to the resumption of the strike. The university teachers found that their October salaries had been slashed. A statement from […]

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has reconfirmed his position as a pre-eminent African statesman after successfully leading the African Union peace initiative to broker a ceasefire in the Ethiopian civil war. Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, fell into war two years ago when the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the leadership of the […]