MAY Day had its prehistoric roots in ancient Europe when it was a festival to mark the onset of summer. Its link to the workers movement had to do with the Haymarket riot on May 4, 1886 in Chicago, USA. Workers had peacefully gathered to demand for an eight-hour working day, but some anarchists exploded […]

FRIDAY, April 24, 2022, was a black day in Imo State and the country at large due to the explosion at an illegal refinery in Abaezi Community of Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State which claimed over 120 lives. The scale of the tragedy became obvious when videos of charred remains of the victims […]

THE Governor of Zamfara State, Dr. Bello Mohammed (Matawallen Maradun), took the seat of power in a blaze of populism after benefiting from the misfortunes of his opponents who had defeated him at the 2018 governorship election. He had contested the governorship seat on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, platform and lost to the All […]

RESPECTED legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, recently called for the adoption of an Interim National Government at the end of the Muhammadu Buhari tenure as his idea for permanently curing Nigeria of its multifaceted system failures. At a media conference in Ado Ekiti on Easter Monday (April 18, 2022), Babalola suggested that preparations for […]

APRIL 14, 2022 marked the eighth sad anniversary of the abduction of the 276 Chibok Schoolgirls by Boko Haram Islamic terrorists. That over 100 of them still remain in the terrorists’ den should have been enough reason for the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to be in a sombre mood. Rather than that, we saw a meeting […]