TheNation: Wrong-Handed Justice
Amother was late last week taken into custody by the police in Lagos State for purportedly attempting to kill her sick daughter by administering the poisonous insecticide known as ‘Sniper’ on her. The police said […]
Amother was late last week taken into custody by the police in Lagos State for purportedly attempting to kill her sick daughter by administering the poisonous insecticide known as ‘Sniper’ on her. The police said […]
WHILE Nigerians are grappling with socioeconomic shocks, the country is plagued by another social nightmare. Reports of rape cases have continued to rise despite the guardrails in place. Crucially, states must enact strict laws and […]
DEATH is cheap in Nigeria. For proof, look at the seven citizens who died recently during a sales bazaar at the Nigerian Customs Service office, in Yaba, Lagos, as residents desperate for affordable food were […]
THE decision of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria to increase the benchmark interest rate by 400 basis points to a record 22.75 per cent, has elicited mixed reactions. Although some […]
After over a decade of insurgency in the North-east, there has been a significant escalation of terrorism in the North-west zone of the country. From Kaduna, Zamfara, Niger, Katsina and Sokoto states, reports of killings, […]
NOBEL laureate Wole Soyinka’s advocacy on the urgent need to decentralise the country speaks poignantly and forcefully to the steps the political leadership must take if they are committed to Nigeria’s survival and future. Delivering […]
A new groundswell of looting across the landscape has become emblematic of Nigeria’s season of discontent. From the Federal Capital Territory to Niger State, hungry citizens are venting their ire on food warehouses to devasting […]
THE surge of Lassa fever sweeping across the country is a growing threat to Nigeria’s fragile healthcare system. The latest report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention shows that this year alone, […]
Full Text Prostate problems are unique to men because they have to do with a peculiar reproductive organ. There are three types of prostate problems: inflammation (prostatitis), enlarged prostate (BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia), and […]
WHILE Nigerians grapple with electricity shortages, the situation is compounded by the incessant vandalism of power assets in the country. This is evidenced by another fresh incident of power asset vandalism in the Federal Capital […]
THERE is both good and bad news about President Bola Tinubu’s promise to restructure Nigeria. In guarded remarks at Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday, during his meeting with Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti, the President said […]
ONE year after, the official review of the 2023 general elections by the umpire leaves a lot of gaps. The Independent National Electoral Commission released the final report on February 23, insisting that the outcomes […]
NIGERIA’S economic crisis has turned every middling commentator into an expert on economic issues. Among the most voluble are some politicians, opinion moulders and traditional rulers from the North, who virtually slept through Muhammadu Buhari’s […]
THE vexing 12-year wait to restructure, rationalise, relocate, and scrap the inflated ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government is finally over. President Bola Tinubu pressed the button for the downsizing on Monday when […]
NIGERIA’S power sector is in a quagmire; it has been so for long. Apart from incessant grid collapse, generation, transmission, and distribution are also plagued by shortfalls and financing. The cycle completes with subsidy payment […]
It can be described as a tragedy of error, even though there are conflicting accounts of what happened. According to one version, a door carelessly left unlocked at the lions’ enclosure in the zoo resulted […]
AS the consensus and clamour for state police grows across the country, it is opportune to address the fears being expressed by some stakeholders against the decentralisation of civil security in Nigeria. Essentially, there is […]
On April 11, 2014, the Nigerian Supreme Court gave a landmark unanimous verdict confirming that the Igbo customary law of inheritance, ‘‘which excludes female children from inheriting the property of their deceased fathers was in […]
Escapees from Nigeria’s correctional centres in the last two years, who have not been recaptured, were reported to be about 4,000. This is alarming. Also disturbing is that this could be a conservative estimate. Nigerian […]
PLANS by the Federal Government to mitigate the high cost of food by establishing a commodity board are self-contradictory. Essentially, Vice-President Kashim Shettima said that the government would establish the National Commodity Board to determine […]
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