Super Falcons’ flop: Time to rebuild our football
The Super Falcons’ quarter-final exit from the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco is more than another painful sporting disappointment. It should be the moment Nigeria finally confronts the deep weaknesses in its football system and begin the difficult task of rebuilding. Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat by Cameroon ended the Falcons’ defence of their […]
Call NANS leadership to order
HOW time has changed the vision and ideological reflexes of the umbrella of students’ unionism in Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS!
A day to honour our Armed Forces
TODAY, January 15, 2019, is Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day. It is a special day set aside for sober reflections on the significance of the Armed Forces to Nigeria.
Confronting ISWA’s threat to our sovereignty
The resurgence of Boko Haram in the North-East is, indeed, an insidious threat to the territorial integrity of Nigeria. For the past three years, the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government, the Borno State Government and the Nigerian Army, had insisted that Boko Haram no longer occupied territory in Nigeria.
Why Amina Zakari’s INEC post matters
The convention in the past was for the INEC Chairman to come from a region other than that of the incumbent president. With Yakubu and a close relation of the President, Zakari, calling the shots within the Commission, the independence of INEC under the Buhari dispensation came into serious question.
Army’s siege to Trust Newspapers
The Nigerian Army’s brief siege to the premises of the Media Trust Newspapers in Abuja and Maiduguri on Sunday January 6, 2019, was another worrisome show of increased martial visibility in the nation’s normal daily lives in a democratic environment.
