THE Senate’s indictment of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over invasion of the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, is a sign that all hope is not lost on the Ahmed Lawan-led upper chamber of the National […]

“ALL’s well that ends well,” as William Shakespeare famously put it. It has been a sigh of relief galore since the Anambra governorship poll Returning Officer, Prof. Florence Obi, announced Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, as the final winner. It was one election that seemed headed for an apocalyptic outcome. […]

THE collapse of a 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, a week ago, was a tragedy of international proportions due to the involvement of indigenous and expatriate casualties and the scale of the project. Though the Lagos State Government has established a committee of experts to probe the catastrophe, prima facie evidence shows that […]

The failure of the Federal Government to effectively tackle the insecurity challenge facing the nation presently has given rise to probably a worse form of insecurity: hunger. Insecurity is one of the cardinal programmes of this administration. Yet, we have seen armed insurrection, terrorism, banditry and herdsmen attacks on farmers and indigenous communities ballooning across […]

SEVERAL media reports since July this year have confirmed that the much-vaunted linkage of the Subscriber Identification Module, SIM,  with the National Identity Number, NIN, has failed to achieve its objective of helping to nail terrorists, bandits and kidnappers. The Federal Government felt that its efforts to curtail ‘Bandits’ terrorising the North West and parts […]