Voters, not courts, must decide elections
The warning from the 22nd All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) in Enugu is timely. Under the theme “The Ballot, the Media and the Task of Keeping Democracy Alive” and a sub-theme on detecting and debunking AI disinformation, the conference examined forces shaping Nigeria’s democracy ahead of the 2027 general elections. Significantly, the Independent National Electoral […]
AfCTA: The good, the challenges
AS the frenzy over the delay, the rigmarole and the eventual assent to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCTA, dies down, we draw attention to the task ahead given its implications to Nigeria’s economy.
A deserved honour for Imam Abdullahi
ON Wednesday, July 17, 2019, a humble Nigerian Muslim cleric, Imam Abubakar Abdullahi, stood tall and flew Nigeria’s flag high in America as he was among those the State Department conferred with the 2019 US International Religious Freedom Award.
Security breach at Lagos Airport
ANOTHER major disaster in the Nigerian aviation industry seemed imminent as a strange man climbed onto an Azman Airwing at the Ikeja Airport, Lagos on Friday, July 19, 2019.
Killing of Nigerians in South Africa must stop
IN the past three years, 127 Nigerians have been murdered in South Africa. Mrs. Elizabeth Ndubisi-Chukwu, Deputy Director-General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, who was strangled in her hotel room on June 13, 2019 at Kempton Park while attending a conference, is the latest and the most prominent victim thus far.
Matters arising from Olakunri’s murder
Expectedly, a grieving Pa Fasoranti has been host to condolence visitors, including former President Goodluck Jonathan and an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Chief Bola Tinubu, among a host of others. Afenifere and Oódua People’s Congress, OPC, leader, Aare Gani Adams, strongly accused “Fulani herdsmen” of culpability in the crime and threatened dire consequences.
