The need for an Act to regulate the manufacture, use and control of plastic products (polyethylene and polypropylene) has dawned on the House of Representatives, leading to the creation of the Committee on Preparedness for Single-Use Plastics Ban in Nigeria. According to the Committee’s Chairman, Terseer Ugbor, a Bill to that effect is in the […]

The National Assembly is proposing an amendment to the Electoral Act 2022 to abolish the current arrangement of staggering our general elections and instead consolidate them on one day. If this amendment is passed, the Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly elections will be conducted on the same day. Indeed, the federal lawmakers have […]

With the staggering statistic that every 33 minutes a life is lost in Nigeria to suicide, it has become urgent to open national conversations about suicide and mental health. The growing trend signals not just individual tragedies but a national emergency. As Professor Taiwo Lateef Sheikh rightly observed, “mental illness is part of suicide, but […]

The Federal Government has been reacting correctly to overtures by the United States Government to temporarily uptake its non-Nigerian deportees. Last week, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, issued what appeared like a final rejection of the offer. In implementing his deportation of illegal and undocumented migrants, the US President, Donald Trump, had approached […]

Insecurity is clearly getting beyond the capacity of our elected leaders to confront. While some state governors have settled for appeasement of the bandits, Fulani militants and terrorists in their domains, some have tried to tackle it with law making, as if that alone can solve the problem. Yet others have established and trained vigilante […]