THE children neither go to school for Western education nor undergo vocational training for skill acquisition neither.

THE National Assembly is still talking about oil – for now, at least, because the final vote on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is yet to come. Everyone knows oil is causing problems – but everyone also knows that oil is making Nigeria richer. It’s paying for hospitals, roads, and our efforts against violent extremists. So running the oil industry properly really matters.

THE implication of the above scenario is that Easterners who are Christians came to be seen as enemies of the Hausa/Fulani race because they executed the first coup that killed prominent Northern political and military chiefs.

CORRUPTION is a cankerworm that must be rooted out of the fabric of the nation if the country must move forward and join the club of developed nations of the globe… Nigeria is ranked 139th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perception Index…

NEW Opportunities, new partnerships and new structures will shape Nigeria’s future as an energy giant: When you change something that has been around for 50 years, however much it needs changing, chances are that this change will not be universally popular.

IN 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889.

Hausa community was divided into Hausa ‘bokwa’ and Hausa “banza”, under the powerful rulers, who ruled according to custom and tradition, but the introduction of Islamic religion in the region “in the twelfth or thirteen century”, and its eventual firm root, following fresh band of Muslim Wangara and Fulani traders and scholars, who entered the land from Mali in the fourteenth century, as well the first royal convert which occurred, when Ali Yaji B. Tsamia, the Sarki or king of Kano converted in the fourteenth century, opened a new chapter in the land.

Three fashionable fallacies lie at the root of prevailing Igbo outlook to Lagos, the former federal capital. The first is that Lagos is a no-man’s land with no indigenous population.

Freed former Abacha strongman, Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha, is like a beautiful bride being courted by sundry suitors ever since he left Lagos prison. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is believed to have begun discussions with the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on how to use him to advance the cause of the party in the 2015 elections. Will they succeed? If they do, can Al-Mustapha deliver the goods and in what capacity?

This is the report of the visit of the Victims Support Sub-Committee of the Presidential Committee on the Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts in Northern Nigeria, otherwise known as Boko Haram amnesty committee, to those affected by the suicide bombing which took place in Kano, penultimate week.