Plateau State is a State that is supposed to hold its head high anytime issues of financial obligations to workers arise. This is because of the preponderance of resources both human and natural that dot its landscape. Given a fair exploitation of mineral resources in the state as it is done in states with crude oil, Plateau State should by now be enjoying enormous availability of finance to settle its civil servants as and when due without any snag.

Without an iota of doubt, LASPEC has performed brilliantly and commendably in discharging the trust entrusted to its care

When we say we want a proper direction and focus for our education system, we mean in the areas of technological development, science, agriculture

Nigeria is so ‘serious’ a nation that satire is as bad a ‘crime’ as treason. Counting the torrents of condemnation against Mrs. Aisha Buhari’s harmless satirical comment to the satirical post of Senator Shehu Sani, one could see why there’s always little energy left to deal with serious issues.

A recent article written by one Mohammed Saleh Gombe with the above caption betrayed the desperation of the writer and his sponsors to the extent that they fatally shot themselves in the foot while embarking on that futile and puerile effort at denigrating the governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State, with an inordinate view to vitiate his good works just to further their own selfish political ambition.

Chi Onwurah, the Member of Parliament representing Newcastle Central in the UK House of Commons and my former colleague at the State House, Molara Wood, met recently at the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing award ceremony. When Molara informed Chi that her re-election along with six others had caused so much excitement in Nigeria and even produced official letters of congratulation from both the Federal Government and Abike Dabiri, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Affairs, Onwurah’s sharp retort was: “I’m British, not Nigerian”

West African countries and their leaders have a duty to protect ECOWAS and its enviable gains by emphatically rejecting Morocco’s membership of the Organisation. Any other action will be an unacceptable betrayal of the trust reposed in them by the citizens of West Africa

“Treat the surrendering Biafrans well or risk their children rising again”- Colonel Phillip Effiong, Vice President of Biafra, 1970.

On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria.

The time to hear political jargons, grammar and unrecognized theories has landed; time for fake promises to flood into our ears has come.