Once again, the educated and discerning Nigerians in what had been described by Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State as “the developing South” of Nigeria are almost alone in raising the alarm regarding rapidly rising debt. This is a national issue that will define the fate of our nation for years to come. With the exception of a few patriotic individuals from what Rufai called “the backward North”, the matter of the national debt rising from N19.16tn in March 2017 to N24.95tn in March 2019, representing an increase of 30.22 per cent in just twenty-four months can only be alarming to the educated and those who can think deeply. It can certainly not be expected to disturb those with low educational qualifications – irrespective of status in society. 

TRAGEDY was averted recently as 94 passengers and six crew members of a plane operated by Air Peace narrowly escaped death after the aircraft almost crashed in Port Harcourt. The aircraft on flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt reportedly skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, Rivers State, on Saturday June 22, 2019.

A human rights non-governmental organization based in Lagos is seeking highly qualified lawyers for the position of Legal Adviser in its Litigation and Legal Advice Unit.

A former Attorney General of Edo State, Mr Henry Idahagbon, in this interview, says Governor Godwin Obaseki created the conflict in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress.

A former Minority Whip in the House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, in this interview, dismisses the assumptions that the crisis rocking Edo State House of Assembly is between the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Governor Godwin Obaseki, saying the latter’s alleged failure to carry party leaders along is at the root of the impasse. Osagie, an insider, who also describes the recent inauguration of the state House of Assembly as illegality, speaks on other angles to the controversy