SINCE the scandal over the past open support of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, for some global terrorist groups broke out about a fortnight ago, the Federal Government initially remained aloof to it. On Thursday, April 22, 2021 the Presidency, which had also decidedly kept mum over the display of […]

It was not certain whether the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, was flying a kite or actually pronouncing a pending government policy direction when she recently directed the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to “reduce” the salaries of workers of “several” Federal Government agencies “to save costs”. Organised Labour through the President of the […]

Erosion has washed away large portions of lands in Eastern Nigeria, but the people who lost their lands and property have never armed themselves with military-grade weapons to dispossess others of their ancestral lands. Evidently, climate change as the root cause of insecurity in Nigeria bears the hues of a narrative spun by the sponsors […]

With every emphasis at our disposal, we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to continue to ignore the unpatriotic calls for a state of emergency over our current security threats. It will never solve the problem. Rather, it might lead to unforeseeable circumstances which could bode ill for the corporate existence of Nigeria. On several occasions […]

There is no doubt about it: climate change can displace populations and possibly lead to conflicts over scarcer land and water resources. The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during a virtual roundtable with Kenyan and Nigerian journalists on how the US could assist Nigeria in tackling its security challenges, had illustrated this claim […]