WE are shocked and horrified that murderous Taraba kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala(alias Wadume), was given only a seven-year jail term by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court. Given the suspicious and seemingly conspiratorial circumstances of Wadume’s case, it is our firm view that justice has been miscarried, which is why we […]

Recent elections in other parts of Africa may be pointers to what we can expect in 2023. The elections in Zambia in August 2021 and Kenya in August 2022, can be described as the “oncoming wave of change”. In Zambia, young people came out in their numbers and chucked out the incumbent president, Edgar Lungu […]

THE Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has finally rolled out the state’s version of security outfit aimed at protecting the people from the onslaughts of armed herdsmen who have been decimating the population with little response from the Federal Government’s agencies. The outfit, the Benue Volunteer Guards, BVGs, according to the Governor, will grow […]

The run-up to the 2023 general elections has proved to be one of a kind. For the first time since the return of our democracy, the youth have jumped to the forefront of the mission to take back Nigeria from corrupt, incompetent and visionless leadership at all levels. The youth, who have been the hewers […]

BEFORE the advent of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, the name of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, the regulator of the broadcast industry, rarely made the news because the media generally enjoyed a high degree of press freedom. Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended) provides as follows: “The Press, Radio and Television and […]