Smuggling with motorcycle, popularly known as Okada, has been one of the major challenges facing security operatives at Nigeria’s border with Republic of Benin. The porous border with numerous entry and exit points as well as the volatile nature of the border communities make curbing this menace extremely difficult.

Imo State is in the news again and probably for what some concerned citizens and labour leaders called “the wrong reasons”. They have equally not failed to wonder why “obnoxious policies and equally vexatious labour practices should start from the state”.

There is no doubt that corruption has remained a central defining theme of the Buhari administration since its inception in May of 2015. President Buhari, prior to his inauguration as President, once stated, “So the point I want to make here is that the problem of Nigeria is not ethnic or religious, it is corruption…..we should try to kill corruption before corruption kills Nigeria…..corruption is fast becoming a culture and to try to caution people is not an easy task but it must be done.”

For three days, the ancient city of Ile-Ife, the cradle of the yoruba race was agog for the first anniversary of the demise of the 50th Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse 11, who died in a London hospital last year. The activities lined up for the remembrance of the revered monarch began on Tuesday at Ife City Hall, now named after the late Ooni with a press conference addressed by the chairman Local Organising Committee of the anniversary, Prof Muib Opeloye.

The Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has for several months been in the eye of the storm. Not for what it did, but for what it did not do – its inability to “conclude” most of the elections on first ballot. While many Nigerians are anxious to always have the commission declare election results at the end of the conduct of same, INEC on its part has often said it is better to be slow and right, than to be fast and wrong.