The gold-inspired violence in Zamfara and the northwest is a multi-layered problem that combines issues of the economy, insecurity, border-control, regional hegemony and politics. Any government response must factor in each of these issues for […]
Somehow, I had come to develop a profound interest in Ekiti and this dates back to my early university days at the University of Lagos. Then, my sister was living in Ado Ekiti. On my […]
Nigeria, the giant of Africa indeed! As we celebrate another Workers’ Day on May 1, 2019, with more or less zero improvement from the last celebration of Workers’ Day, one must wonder what exactly the […]
It is no longer news that President Mohammadu Buhari has embarked on a 10 day “private visit” to the UK without informing the National Assembly and delegating presidential powers to the Vice President. Expectedly, this […]
Using the biblical analogy, the ‘internet’ is just like a double-edged sword — it makes much of our lives easy, making it possible for us to connect with people, family, loved ones and business partners […]
The 1999 Constitution: It is beyond comprehension that 20 years after Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, we have retained the 1999 military Constitution as our supreme law. The 1999 constitution continues to limit […]
Dr. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, may indeed be a typical old school civil servant whose noble qualities include being a stickler for law and order, processes and procedure and, above all, unalloyed […]
As part of efforts aimed at ensuring security of the cyber space and protecting telecoms consumers from activities of criminals, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has unfolded plans to establish an Internet Code of Practice […]
WOLE Soyinka was in the news last week for a comment he made to Zainab Badawi on Hardtalk, an interview programme on the British Broadcasting Service, BBC. Badawi started by asking if Soyinka thought his […]
Nigeria’s King of the novel, Professor Chinua Achebe wrote ‘Anthills of the Savannah’ after a twenty-one year writing hiatus. It was a Locus Classicus on a satire against military dictatorships. It was the inevitable clash […]
Boko Haram jihadists have killed 14 loggers as they collected firewood in northeast Nigeria, residents and anti-Boko Haram militia have told AFP. The bodies of the men were found at Duwabayi village near the garrison […]
UNLIKE the usual practice of placing party and other considerations above merit in the appointment of ministers, President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet members would emerge strictly on competence, Saturday Vanguard authoritatively gathered. Already, the President is […]
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams has condemned what he described has desecration of the Yoruba culture, values and tradition by the Olugbo of Ugbo kingdom, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan. In a statement […]
Kidnappers on Monday afternoon blocked the Kaduna – Abuja Express way forcing several motorists to abandon their vehicles and head for nearby bushes to avoid being abducted. Members of the Police Anti-Terrorism Joint Squad during […]
ABUJA – A civil society group, OurMumuDonDo Movement, has called on the federal government to beam its searchlight on the finances of religious groups operating in the country with a view to making them transparent […]
The one we knew was the petite David who turned the table against the Goliath of infernal godfathers in Anambra. They thought they had his hands tied with a dark oath at the Okija altar. […]
From Lagos to Sokoto, from Bayelsa to insurgency-ravaged Maiduguri and Damaturu, workers may lament their deteriorating conditions today as they mark the 2019 edition of May Day.The celebration of the 2019 edition of Workers Day […]
It may not have come as a surprise when a recent survey by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), named the Nigeria Police Force, whose core duties include the prevention and detection of crime, […]
At a recent event in Lagos, The Bullion Lecture, organized by the Centre for Financial Journalism, the President and Chief Executive of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Professor Benedict Okey Oramah, made a moving presentation […]
These findings that the autonomy or independence of the Electoral Commissions and National Security Agencies matter, have also been replicated in the Electoral Integrity Project undertaken by Pippa Norris, Thomas Wynter and Sarah Cameron in […]
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