PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, have been very vocal in their calls for Nigeria to avoid “another civil war”. At the 2021 Bola Tinubu Colloquium, Buhari reminded Nigerians how he fought in the 1967-1970 civil war and witnessed its horrors. He said Nigerians are better together than apart. Just last week, […]

SOME Nigerians have been raising concerns over the despatch of a contingent of 144 officers of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to terrorism-wracked Somalia to help in efforts to stabilise security and restore the rule of law and order. Their grouse is that this is ironically coming at a time that the police force is […]

THE Federal Government has once again sparked off controversy with the appointment of yet another Inspector General of Police from the North as this is considered a flagrant violation of the Federal Character provisions in the Constitution. On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari named Usman Alkali Baba, to replace Mohammed Adamu as IGP. […]

THE travails of two Nigerian women, Mrs. Ajima Ogbole-Spittael and Susan Ogbole, her sister, in a Belgium hospital deserve global attention and intervention by the Nigerian government and international agencies. After a doctor at Az Sint-Jan Bruges hospital, Belgium, had mistakenly cut and permanently damaged Mrs. Ogbole-Spittael’s cervix in a surgery meant to remove fibroid […]

ON April 1, 2021, Governor Dapo Abiodun decorated Professor Wole Soyinka as the Super Marshall of Operation Amotekun, the Ogun State chapter of Western Nigeria Security Network. By accepting that investiture, the Nobel Laureate endorsed the growing need for civilians to acquire martial skills for self-defence. Coming at a time that the federal agencies constitutionally […]