ON Monday, November 2, 2020,  leaders from the 19 states of the defunct Northern Region met at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, and offered their response to the recent #EndSARS protest and subsequent breakdown of law and order. The group made up of prominent political leaders, top Federal Government office-holders, governors, traditional rulers and […]

For the second time this year alone, the United States of America constituted a stumbling block to the aspirations of eminently qualified Nigerians to lead major international organisations. First, it was Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, whose second term bid as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, was rejected by the US. America had opposed Adesina […]

The speed with which the name of the disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, was changed to the Special Weapons And Tactics, SWAT, team by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in response to the prolonged #EndSARS protests smacked of a well-rehearsed and anticipated containment tactic. It was the same manner in which former […]

IN one of his rare public outings, the National Security Adviser, NSA, retired Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno, penultimate weekend appeared to confirm the worst fears of some stakeholders in the Niger Delta when he announced that he had advised President Muhammadu Buhari to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP. The NSA complained that the […]

IT is unfortunate that most of the state-owned universities and other tertiary institutions have lost the logic and purpose of setting them up. These institutions are not supposed to be there merely for the prestige of the states or governors who took the decision to set them up at huge public expense. They are to […]