By Mayor Eshanekpe Israel For decades, the Federal Government of Nigeria grappled with a persistent and deeply entrenched crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta: the rampant sabotage of oil pipelines, large-scale oil theft, illegal bunkering, and widespread environmental degradation. Billions of dollars were siphoned away annually, draining government revenues, discouraging foreign investment, and damaging critical […]

Marte, the headquarters of the eponymous Local Government  Area, LGA, on the western floodplains of the Lake Chad in Borno State, North-East Nigeria, has been a site of lingering contest between Nigerian troops on the one hand and Islamist insurgents of Boko Haram on the other for over one decade.  At 3,154 km 2, Marte LGA  is […]

By Justice Faloye  The new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade’s visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, the head of the Afro-Arabic civilization, before visiting Ooni of Ife, the leader of the Indigenous African civilization of South and Middlebelt, raises concerns over the monarch’s understanding of the Yoruba cultural norms. Besides, the sideling of Oranmiyan […]

By Christopher Slater Watching Charles Aniagwu, Delta State Commissioner for Works (Rural and Public Communications), on Arise TV recently was not only disheartening—it was a national embarrassment. One expected measured words and clarity from a public officer occupying such a sensitive portfolio, but what was delivered instead was a vitriolic monologue riddled with historical inaccuracies, […]

Since September 2023 and despite the fantasies of NSA Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s internal security situation has disintegrated into mayhem