Several highly-placed officials of the Federal Government have brought great embarrassment to this country through their unguarded utterances. Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, blocked a petition from a section of Nigerians in the Diaspora, saying they had no right to comment on insecurity in the country. Danladi Umar, Chairman of the […]

IT is shocking the number of military air crashes and losses we have experienced as a nation in the past six years. We are left wondering: what is really going on in the Nigerian Air Force, NAF? Between August 29, 2015 and now, Nigeria has suffered eleven military plane crashes with no fewer than 33 […]

Since the Governors of the 17 states of Southern Nigeria banned open grazing of livestock in their respective states, there has been a groundswell of support. Members of the National Assembly as well as the Speakers of the State Assemblies from three geopolitical zones have also thrown their support. The implication is that the elected […]

We are not amused by the exchange of truculent rhetoric between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over whose duty it is to protect the people from bandits and kidnappers. While the PDP blames the governing party for its failure to provide the people with […]

The Nigerian Senate is considering a Bill which seeks to criminalise the payment of ransom to kidnappers. Tagged: “The Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill 2021” and sponsored by Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, it seeks to amend the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013. Section 14 of the Amendment Bill provides as follows: “Anyone who transfers funds, makes payment or […]

THIS year’s May Day fell on a Saturday, May 1, 2021, but the Federal Government set aside Monday, May 3, 2021 as a public holiday. May Day, also called Workers’ Day, is celebrated all over the world and used to draw the attention of policy makers, governments and employers to the need to keep the […]

The fallout of the Federal Government’s failure to build on the progress made in the country’s space project since 2011 came to the fore on May 5, 2021 when the Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Halilu Shaba, said in Abuja that inadequate satellite coverage hinders monitoring of bandits, terrorists and […]

The main cause of the Kaduna State Labour unrest and war of attrition with Governor Nasir el-Rufai is that the state is overburdened with over 100,000 workforce and a wage bill that has become unsustainable. The governor recently sacked 4,000 local council workers and served notice that more staff cuts, including his political appointees, were […]

HISTORY is replete with cases of killings that triggered off wars. Perhaps the most prominent was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on June 28, 1914. The Archduke and his wife were on a visit to the city of Sarajevo when they were killed by Gavrilo […]

The disregard with which we treat research and researchers in this part of our world is partly responsible for the relative lack of data and statistics in many fields of human endeavours in Nigeria and Africa. Without data and statistics, meaningful socio-political and economic policies  that affect human lives will be impossible. Statistics is the […]