Atiku’s Border Promise: Between political expediency and Nigeria’s national interest
By Okey IBEKE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to reopen Nigeria’s land borders if elected president in 2027 may appeal to traders and border communities who depend on cross-border commerce. But the promise raises a more important question: what exactly does he intend to reopen? The Federal Government has challenged the premise of the […]
A Traditional Ruler’s Quest for National Unity Gets Federal Backing
By Etop Ekanem For the Egbere Emere Okori, Eleme, Rivers State, HRH, (Dr) Appolus Chu, as Nigeria clocks 59 years of age, securing the peace, unity and safety of Nigeria is a task that must be carried out by everyone rather than the citizens just folding their hands and watch as the nation degenerate more […]
NIPOST infrastructure to drive social intervention programmes
In terms of spread, only the Nigeria Police Force is slightly ahead of the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, in the country. NIPOST has offices throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria. The implication of this is that the Federal Government can drive its social intervention programmes through NIPOST with almost 100% success. There is no local government area in Nigeria that has no presence of NIPOST. Apart from LGAs headquarters, almost all the towns in Nigeria boast of postal outlets.
Why we must all act to save our democracy
Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour Since Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015 as democratic president, I have engaged his government from a policy standpoint, criticizing the policy choices he gets wrong and commending those he gets right, albeit sparingly. It is against this backdrop that I strongly disagree with much of the President’s address on Independence Day […]
World Mental Health Day: It’s dementia, not witchcraft
By Marvelene Ekott The fear that runs through your mind when your eighty-year-old mother walks up and down your staircase every night weeping and soliloquizing that she wants to go home to her family and you wonder if you aren’t her daughter anymore. The hyperactivity of your middle-aged neighbour that always wants to climb to […]
UNILAG ‘cold room’ as a metaphor
BEFORE now, the common perception of a cold room in our country has always been that of a storage facility for frozen food and drinks such as fish, turkey, chicken, yoghurt, ice cream and many others. However, recent revelation from a virile video which shows the ‘inside’ of the ‘cold room’ where lecturers ‘sexually harass’ students at the University of Lagos has changed all that.
