When will Nigeria’s IDP camps finally close?
For millions of internally displaced Nigerians scattered across about 3,900 camps and settlements nationwide, home is no longer a place of comfort but a distant memory. Many have spent years in camps established as temporary shelters that have gradually evolved into permanent settlements. The question that should trouble every Nigerian is: when will these IDP […]
Wanted: Better future for our children
TODAY is Children’s Day in Nigeria. Though the World’s Children’s Day is still six months away – November 20, 2022 – the Nigerian Children’s Day has been celebrated since 1964 on May 27. This year’s universal theme is: “A Better Future for Every Child”. The Nigerian Children’s Day is not a public holiday. Rather, it […]
Standing against blasphemy and jungle justice
TO the relief and delight of peaceful and law-abiding Nigerians, more and more Muslim organisations have been condemning not only the lynching of Miss Deborah Samuel at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto by Muslim extremists but also the crime of blasphemy killings or jungle justice. Professor Lakin Akintola of the Muslim Rights Concern, […]
Closure of Dei-Dei Market, Abuja
A NUMBER of crises that threatened the ethnic and religious cohesion of Nigerians reared their ugly heads last week. Apart from the “blasphemy” killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto and the gruesome burning of David Imoh in Lekki Lagos, a clash between traders and commercial motorcyclists (Okada) led to the “indefinite” closure of the Dei-Dei […]
Planned restart of Abuja-Kaduna rail service
WE welcome the decision of the Nigerian Railways Corporation, NRC, to suspend indefinitely its reported plan to resume services on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line while scores of passengers abducted by bandit-terrorists remain unaccounted for. The circumstances that led to the abductions smacked of the typical sloppiness of our security setup. The bandit-terrorists have been allowed […]
May 29, 2023 is sacrosanct
IT is strange that the two plaintive appeals for the sidelining of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 As Altered) have come from respected and eminent elders who are also seasoned constitutional lawyers. On April 23, 2022, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) called for an interim government which would be asked to give […]
