“The economic situation favours all producers. Whether you’re producing for food, or garage, or whatever you sell, you make a lot of money”

By Dickson Omobola Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), in this interview, explains how the agency is rebuilding public trust in government. Excerpts: We know it’s been just two years, but how does the agency measure the success of its orientation programmes? We measure it using two instruments. First, part of […]

By Chancel Sunday Prince Doubra Baro, newly inaugurated chairman of the Ojobo Federated Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, speaks on his administration’s vision for sustainable peace, infrastructure, and human capital development in the oil-rich but long-neglected community nestled in the creeks of the Niger Delta.Excerpts: You’ve been elected as chairman of […]

Technology and Digital platforms are the essential tools being deployed by the Commission to reach out to the Diasporans all over the world

Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Marc Fonbaustier,  shares insights into the current state of Nigeria-France relations, highlighting key areas

•He’s already steering ship of state in right direction•Senate not rubber stamping but engaging in responsible governance By Henry Umoru, Assistant Politics Editor Senator Neda Imasuen, a lawyer, was Senior Legislative Aide to Senator Matthew Uroghide who represented Edo South in the 8th and 9th Senate. Senator Imasuen is now representing Edo South in the […]

“As journalists, no one has ever asked the man who claims he made me governor how he did it. Nobody has asked him that question”

Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko is the founder of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, and also Secretary of the Eastern Consultative Assembly

Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, speaks about on the party’s current challenges and what needs to be done

When systems learn continuously and respond intentionally, we move from managing disease to preventing it. That is the future of public health

Armed groups operating under the guise of separatist movements have imposed illegal sit-at-home orders, which have disrupted daily life

The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Engr. Joseph Terlumun Utsev, speaks on his efforts to improve the water and sanitation sectors in Nigeria since he took over about two years ago.  At the ministerial briefing in Abuja, the minister, a professor of water engineering, boasted that a lot has changed through sound policies and programmes initiated […]

…Says Tinubu has declared war on Nigerians, suffocating them …2027 polls between Tinubu and poor Nigerians’ MR Solomon Selcap Dalung a former Minister of Youth and Sports during the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Dalung, in this interview, undertakes an assessment of the last two years under President Bola Tinubu, looking at the various indices of development, […]

GENERAL Zamani Lekwot (retd) served as the Military governor of old Rivers State from July 1975 to July 1978 during the military administrations of Generals Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo. On 15 May 1992, when violence erupted between the Muslim Hausa and Christian Atyap communities of Zango-Kataf  Local Government Area in Kaduna State over trading and land ownership rights, with many deaths, a tribunal set up by the General Ibrahim Babangida government sentenced Lekwot and 16 others to death for alleged complicity in the killings.

In an era often defined by political noise and fleeting soundbites, former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Tanko Al’Makura speaks with the rare cadence of a statesman—measured, deliberate, and suffused with quiet conviction.