Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
Aisha Buhari’s insensitive showboating
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, returned to the public glare after a prolonged time off, to engage in what many Nigerians see as an obscene show-off with a tweet she published on her verified handle on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. She was pictured celebrating the graduation of Zahra, her son’s wife, from a United […]
LASG’s auctions of errant vehicles
Many motorists in Lagos State will do well to familiarise themselves with the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law, 2018, which, in an effort to enforce sanity on Lagos roads, contains some draconian provisions. For instance, driving against the traffic (One-Way) is treated like a criminal offence, which it should not be. Anyone found culpable […]
Beyond disbandment of NATFORCE
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 […]
Row over aviation Labour rights
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 […]
North’s call for state police
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 […]
