THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is easily one of the most corrupt organs of the Federal Government. Established on June 5, 2000 by the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime, it was meant to be a special intervention to assuage the militant agitations through rapid development and engagement with stakeholders in the oil-producing communities. Responding to […]

THE call by a former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of the Interior, retired Lt-General Abdulrahman Danbazzau, for a comprehensive mop-up of arms and drugs from among the Fulani pastoralists calls for serious attention. Danbazzau was one of the guests at the recent Pastoralist and Fulbe Security Conference organised by the Miyetti Allah Cattle […]

THE “total enforcement” of the ban of commercial motorcycles in specified parts of the Lagos City-State goes into effect today, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. These cover six local government areas, LGAs, and nine local council development areas, LCDAs, in Eti Osa, Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland and Apapa. It also includes the city’s trunk […]

THE Federal Electoral Commission, FEC, of the United States of America where we copied our presidential system from has the main function of enforcement of campaign funding laws. This is to prevent any individuals or vested interests from “buying” government and derailing its purpose of serving the public interest. But here in Nigeria, apart from […]

MEMBERS of the public, especially the youth, have a lot to learn from the daylight drama that played out in the Asokoro, Abuja home of Senator Anayo Rochas Okorocha. On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after hours of siege to Okorocha’s premises, broke into his house through […]