Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
Gov Zulum and the good teacher
SINCE he assumed power some eight months ago, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, the Governor of embattled Borno State, has continued to strike the posture of a leader on a messianic mission. He has put the interests of the common man above partisan niceties and often found himself at odds with the Federal Government and the […]
We reject $500m loan for NTA
Mohammed,NTA: ONE of the great dividends of democracy is that it creates the Legislative arm through which the people are represented and given a voice in government. Apart from legislation, this arm of government also controls the purse of the nation and the power to mitigate the excesses of the Executive arm. It is this […]
INEC’s weeding of unviable parties
AS Nigeria gets set for the 2020/2023 electoral cycle, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday, February 6, 2020, announced the deregistration of 74 out of the 91 odd political parties which took part in the 2019 general elections. The electoral umpire now has 18 political parties on its register. The Chairman of the […]
Our police world ranking
Police: ONCE again, Nigeria is reminded that she is one of the most backward countries in the world. Our rankings in such areas as education, healthcare, electricity, infrastructure, human development, food security, poverty/prosperity, human rights and what have you, show we are either at the bottom of the scale or very close, even in the […]
On the ban on Okada in Lagos
Okada ban: PERHAPS for the umpteenth time in the past 20 years, the Lagos State Government has announced a ban on the use of motorcycles and tricycles for commercial transport, this time in six local government areas, LGAs, nine local government development areas, LCDAs, 10 major highways and 40 bridges, flyovers and causeways in the […]
