NSCDC custody deaths and Nigeria’s detention crisis
Recently, thirty-seven illegal miners were arrested and detained in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna but never came out alive. That grim fact alone demands a thorough reckoning with Nigeria’s detention system and the accountability of agencies entrusted with the custody of lawfully detained citizens. Whatever offences they […]
Corruptive party nomination fees
IT would seem that heavy criticism of the major political parties for their prohibitive cost of nomination forms for elective offices have fallen on deaf ears.
Absentee governance must stop
This absentee governance syndrome projects the image that elected officials feel too big to live among the people they govern, educate their children within their jurisdictions, attend the same hospitals and use the same infrastructure or lack of it within the community.
Undue secrecy over ministerial list
Perhaps it is too late to expect President Muhammadu Buhari to deviate from the path perfected by his predecessors and toed by himself in 2015 – keeping the portfolios of his ministerial nominees secret until they have been cleared by the Senate.
How Fayemi can retool Governors’ Forum
RECENTLY, the new Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, working together, were able to initiate reconciliatory moves between Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Emir Muhammadu Sanusi.
Attitudinal change for Lagos health workers
IT is gladdening to know that, at last, the Lagos State Government is taking the lead in tackling the long-desired need to upgrade the attitude of health sector workers for better service delivery.
