SEVERAL state governments have indicated their intentions to arm their vigilante outfits with sophisticated weapons to protect their innocent, unarmed, law-abiding residents. The states include Zamfara, Katsina, Benue and Ondo states. These are among the most terrorised states in the country. Some other state governments, interest groups and true federalism advocates have only verbally agitated […]

THERE are some things that are disconcerting; one of them is rushing to the airport to catch a flight only to be met with a strike, picketing or shutdown of airports by the workers’ unions in the aviation sector. In the past couple of months, travellers were subjected to nightmares due to service disruptions from […]

IT is difficult to congratulate the Federal Government for taking the steps that ended the latest Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike. It stands totally culpable for the eight-month strike, which was avoidable. It took the intervention of the House of Representatives led by its Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, to end the seemingly intractable problem. […]

THE emergence of Mr. Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister of Britain is no ordinary event. It is rich in history and points to where the Western world is right now compared to the rest of the world. Here is British-born Sunak with almost unadulterated Indian/Hindu heritage emerging as the Premier of the United Kingdom […]

THOUGH the flooding that has engulfed the country is a disaster foretold, even the National Meteorological Agency, NiMet, underestimated its scale in its in-season warning issued on August 17, 2022. The Agency had warned of high-risk flooding in states like Borno, Kaduna, Delta and Bayelsa, but what hit the nation covered 33 of the 36 […]