After an expanded National Security Council, NSC, meeting, the Federal Government on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at the State House in Abuja, “urged” the promoters of the so-called NATFORCE (National Task Force on the Prohibition of Illegal Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light Weapons, Chemical Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism) to disband itself or be dismantled by […]

On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, air travellers met a brick wall at our airports, as aviation union workers carried placards in protest against clauses in a new legislative Bill which could muzzle their Labour rights. The protesting workers are of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE; Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of […]

Watchers of Nigeria’s political history would be somewhat amused at the recent call by the 19 Northern governors for the “immediate” establishment of state police. They made this call at their recent meeting with traditional rulers in Abuja. Over the past 50 years or so, leaders, politicians and activists from the Southern parts of the […]

In about three weeks, Nigeria will mark her 62nd Independence Anniversary. There is little in our political system that suggests we are ready to practise democracy the right way. The same parliamentary system we abandoned in 1979 for the presidential system remains rock-steady in the United Kingdom. Between 2016 and now, the UK has produced […]

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was mandated by President Muhammadu Buhari to “solve” the Academic Staff of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, crisis within two weeks. When the period expired, Adamu denied being given an ultimatum, and asked university students to “sue” their lecturers over the seven month-old strike. Adamu’s suggestion, which had sounded comical then, has […]