By Chuks Iloegbunam   From Friday, the piece continues, today, the narrative of the drama that unfolded following news of the impeachment of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State AS Channels Television showed a few weeks later, the House reconvened in Awka under heavy security cover and the Speaker, Mike Balonwu, moved the motion. In one […]

•The looming showdown in NASS By Levinus Nwabughiogu The re-introduction of the Water Resources Bill in the House of Representatives smacks of an obscene and controversial cord. The air is heavy with apprehensions. A day of gloves might just be afoot in the parliament should Hon. Sad Soli, the Katsina State born politician and APC lawmaker, insist […]

By Miftaudeen Raji Though criticisms have continued to rattle the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket, the party has maintained that “religion cannot always determine our path.” The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, frowned at the nomination of former governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, as the […]

By Prince Okafor Nigerians traveling by air to other states in the country might be forced to risk land transportation for their travels with the price of airfares rising significantly. This development has taken a different turn, as stakeholders in the sector advise passengers on alternative plans. They also noted that the sector is currently in a […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru Nigerian journalist and CEO of Radio  Now 95.3FM, Kadaria Ahmed, received what she called a mix-bag of commentaries for accusing the BBC Africa Eye of fuelling terrorism in Nigeria through its latest documentary, titled, ‘The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara’. Nigerians, who lashed at her for turning against the BBC, are angry because […]

By Steve Adeyinka Health insurance effectively became  an operational scheme for accessing  the healthcare system within Nigeria in 2005. However, it has become glaring that the scheme is still elusive to majority of Nigerians with just 5% of the population accessing the scheme. Even more, of the lot accessing it, 70% of them finance their […]

•Says not having responsible lawmakers big problem to the country By Prisca Sam-Duru Nigeria is at the moment gasping for air as it struggles to stay alive; no thanks to increasing rate of inflation, economic crisis, frightening level of   insecurity, disunity amongst its people, etc. Things have become so horrific that even the 9th Assembly Nigerians nick-named […]

Wednesday, July 28, 2022: Chinonye woke up with a start! She wasn’t sure if it was a dream or reality.

By Biodun Busari Nigeria’s two major problems are security challenges and poor economy. While almost every part of the country is unsafe, inflation bites hard as prices of food keep soaring. Nigeria’s inflation rate in the month of June 2022, skyrocketed to 18.6% as the people are yet to recover from 17.71% recorded in May. […]

By Gbemisola Esho Origin and Ideology of IPOB IPOB is the acronym for the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group within the South East of Nigeria pushing for secession from the state of Nigeria. The ideology behind IPOB is that of separatism and nationalism. Nationalism in the sense of the primordialist perspective; as a reflection […]

Concerned citizens note that attacks on residents of Plateau by terrorists have resulted in the death of many people, while many people have left their destroyed houses, becoming destitute. Investigations have shown that scores of people from different communities across the state have died in such attacks from April to date, leaving their wives, the […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja Should the controversial water resources bill recently reintroduced in the House of Representatives eventually pass into law, the Federal Government shall have the power to control all the resources found in the waters across the  country. The power, however, is vested in the Minister of Water Resources, who will exercise it […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi & Ogalah Ibrahim, Katsina During the 2015 general elections, northern Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors were said to have mobilzed support for General Muhammadu Buhari, who was then the presidential candidate of the opposing All Progressives Congress, APC. This supposedly enabled Buhari to defeat the then incumbent and a southerner, Dr […]

•2015 election, an eye-opener; we’ve learnt our lessons ••• vow to close ranks, mobilise from Sokoto to Borno, Ilorin and Yola By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja On February 25, 2023, when Nigeria goes to vote in the presidential election, it will be the first presidential poll since 2011 in which the troubling fault lines of the […]

By Michael Oboh When I decided to start this project three years ago, I was very much aware of the dangerous effect this may have on me and my personality but my motivation to carry on was based on the fact that if everyone remains silent, this may continue to go on. I first came […]