Editorial

Giving ex-prisoners another chance

The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]
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Impeachment threat against Buhari

SINCE the past two weeks or so, an impeachment threat against President Muhammadu Buhari has been boiling like a cauldron over serial failures of governance, especially insecurity. The move, which is being spearheaded mainly by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in the Senate and House of Representatives, has been described as “laughable” by Buhari’s Information […]

World Indigenous Peoples Day!

TODAY, Tuesday August 9, 2022, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations sets aside August 9 of every year to draw attention to the need to protect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs designated the universal theme for this year’s celebration […]

Buhari’s failed ultimatum on ASUU strike

FROM the look of things, President Muhammadu Buhari’s sudden ultimatum to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to resolve the strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, within two weeks, was a mere delay tactic. The president gave the ultimatum on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. It expired on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. During […]

Death for baby Hanifa’s killers

IT is quick justice for late little Miss Hanifa Abubakar as her killers, Abdulmalik Tanko and his accomplice, Hashimu Isyaku, have been handed the death sentence by a Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Usman Nababa. In Nigeria, murder and other criminal cases drag on for years, which is why majority of the […]

Blaming the poor for vote bribes

THE crime of money politics is revisited as a former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, recently claimed that money allegedly played the major role in the emergence of the candidate of his party, Bola Ahmed Bola. Nwajiuba has sued Tinubu and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku […]

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