IN a normal setting, the Federal Government’s recently announced plan to ban mining activities and commercial motorcycle (Okada) operations would sound odd and rather childish. These are matters which competent governance can solve without throwing the baby away with the bath water. After a security meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari last week, the Attorney-General […]

THE main issue of the Sri Lanka economic crisis is not just that the people chased away their President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, from power. It is also that the economic future of the country is uncertain. The ouster of the president has not guaranteed any promise of an imminent end to its economic woes. The Acting […]

FOR the third time, the aviation sector regulator has indefinitely suspended the operations of Dana Airlines. The carrier has had the unfortunate record of being accident-prone in recent history. Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu, on Wednesday 20, July 2022, issued a statement freezing Dana Air’s Transport Operating Licence, […]

IN a normal circumstance, President Muhammadu Buhari’s ultimatum to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to end the five month-old indefinite strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, should come as cheering news to anxious Nigerians. But, after over seven years in the saddle, we have seen the president issuing these ultimatums and […]

ZAMFARA State was back on the front burner for the wrong reasons last weekend. A wanted terrorist warlord, Ado Aleru, was turbaned as “Sarkin Fulani” of Yandoton Daji Emirate in Tsafe Local Government Area by the Emir of Yandoto, Alhaji Garba Marafa. Aleru is a leader of one of the numerous bandit groups which have […]