How intelligence, technology, VCRU are closing in on Auchi–Okene kidnappers
By AKINDELE ADEGEBO For years, the Auchi–Okene–Abuja highway and its surrounding communities have carried a reputation that no Nigerian traveller would wish to associate with a journey home: the fear of being watched, followed, and intercepted by men who know the roads, the settlements, and the forests better than almost anyone. For criminal gangs operating […]
Obi’s media aide condemns attacks on Chimamanda Adichie
Media Aide to former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, Val Obienyem, who is also an author and barrister, has condemned recent attacks on author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
EDO: The futility of defence
By John Mayaki Times are no longer the same, the change stirring political discourse to the direction of unnecessary comparisons, instead of the material substance of achievements. It is for this reason that even in the face of blatant incompetence and underachievement, politicians who their underperformance should drive to the political guillotine, find themselves supported […]
There’s strength and unity in diversity…
Only recently, when the first batch of 187 Nigerian returnees from South Africa, as a result of the Xenophobic attacks in that country returned to their fatherland – Nigeria, there was something spectacular about the unity and oneness of this country that I carefully observed which also drew tears from my eyes.
Ogun Agro-preneurs: Inside Dapo Abiodun’s scheme to feed nation
It is the dawn of a new era in Ogun State where efforts are in top gear to achieve self-sufficiency in food production.
Why local government autonomy is non-negotiable
By Busari Faiza Taiye and Busari Hamidah Kehinde Local government administration in Nigeria has undergone several reforms, for various reasons, to achieve certain objectives since 1954 when this tier of government received statutory approval by virtue of the Native Law Ordinance of that year. For instance, the 1967 reform arose from the need to effect […]
