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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

WHEN Nigeria’s power sector was privatised in 2013, there were expectations that the exercise will culminate in increased generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to consumers sector-wide. The reasons were not far to seek. First, it was widely expected that private investors that inherited the assets, including the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, had the […]

ORDINARILY, after 61 years of independence, Nigeria should have developed to the point where any citizen, irrespective of his or her ethnic, religious, sectional or ideological background, should be free to vie for the office of President or Vice President of Nigeria. If these primordial factors no longer mattered but merit and integrity, we would […]