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 […]

APART from Boko Haram and the North West “Bandits”, armed herdsmen embedded in farmlands and forests all over the North Central and Southern parts of Nigeria constitute the biggest threats to our collective safety. Herdsmen, in times past, were harmless nomads who went about tending to their livestock. But since Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association […]

A WEEK ago, Nigerians were thrown off the euphoric mode of partisan politics when a group of students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, lynched and burnt the body of Miss Deborah Samuel over alleged “blasphemy” of Islam and Prophet Muhammad, SAW. Not only that, hoodlums in Sokoto took to the streets, burning and […]

THE Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, ended his two-day official visit to Nigeria on May 3, 2022 with a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Villa. He had visited victims of terror – the Internally-Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram jihadist terrorism. Guterres expressed […]