School resumption amid mounting insecurity
As the 2026/2027 school session begins across Nigeria, millions of parents face the familiar burdens of school fees, uniforms, books and transport. But for many, especially in conflict-prone communities, there is a more frightening question: will their children return home safely each day? The school, once regarded as a sanctuary of learning and hope, has […]
Deborah Samuel: Unfinished businesses
WE are dissatisfied with steps taken so far in dealing with the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, over alleged “blasphemy” of Prophet Mohammed, SAW. From the look of things, government and some individuals and groups in the North want to quickly dispense with […]
Our rising out-of-school numbers
IN June 2013, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, EAGMR, announced that Nigeria had become the country with the highest population of out-of-school children in the world with 10.5 million children. Other countries named in the report were: Pakistan 5.1m, Ethiopia 2.4m, India 2.3m, and others. […]
Tackling our medical brain drain
EARLIER in August this year, the Saudi Arabia government sent its agents to Abuja, our nation’s capital, to recruit Nigerian doctors. The Muhammadu Buhari regime saw it as a slap on its face. It sent a posse of security operatives to halt the exercise. But in a twist of logic, the Minister for Labour and […]
Economic vandals crippling Nigeria
THE March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack by bandit-terrorists served the notice that terrorists have joined the horde of economic saboteurs emasculating the comatose railway system which we are trying to revive. The Railway Police Command on April 27, 2022, hauled in 14 suspects, including Sirajo Suleiman, a Sergeant of the Nigerian Army Central Ammunition […]
The growing threat of urban bandits
ACTS of extreme violence perpetrated last week in Lagos and Abuja by commercial motorcycle (Okada) operators could be pointers that the rampaging terrorist bandits ravaging states in the North such as Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna and Katsina, may have infiltrated our major urban centres. In Lagos, a misunderstanding between these strange elements and citizen David […]
