By Bashir Adigun  For years, the people of Kwara State have lived with a painful contradiction. Widely  regarded as one of Nigeria’s most peaceful states, Kwara has increasingly found itself on the frontline of insecurity, with criminal elements exploiting its vast forests, porous borders, and sparsely populated rural communities. Read Also: New Army Divisions: Veterans split over timeline, […]

By James Udemba On Tuesday, 21 July, Remi Tinubu visited  Abia State and Governor Alex Otti rose  to welcome the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, with a tribute to her husband that no card-carrying APC chieftain could have bettered. He asked the gathering to thank the President for his sacrifices. According to Governor Otti, it […]

By CHEKWUBE E. NZOMIWU Late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, in his influential book “The Trouble with Nigeria,” identified failure of leadership as the single core problem of Nigeria. In the 68-page book, first published in 1983 by Fourth Dimension Publishers, Achebe argued that there is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land, air, climate or the […]

Efforts to counter transnational organisations and networks in Africa are no longer confined to proscription orders or terrorist designations.

By Chris Onuoha President of the African Sociocultural Harmony and Enlightenment Foundation (ASHE), Prince Justice Faloye, has expressed dissatisfaction with the current APC administration, describing its neoliberal leadership style as un-African. Faloye, who is the national publicity secretary of Afenifere, stated this in a press release, saying Nigeria is at the bottom of the global […]

AI Researcher, University of Hertfordshire, UK Some people receive an opportunity and build a comfortable life. A rare few receive an opportunity and build a ladder through which thousands of others can rise. Dr Stanley Ifeanyi Uzochukwu belongs to that rare company.

By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]

And this is even all the more commendable as the civil service then was just still evolving in terms of organizational development that was heading towards institutionalization

For Governor Sanwo-Olu, the evening was not simply about the unveiling of a book. It was about preserving the story of a city whose greatest strength lies in the resilience of its people.

It was cheering to read of the delivery of two security surveillance aircraft to the Oyo State Government in Ibadan on Tuesday.