Editorial

SLOWLY but steadily, Nigeria is sliding into war. Shortly after bandits slaughtered three of the kidnapped 23 undergraduates of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, captured the moment explicitly in a statement entitled, […]

It is a mother’s plea for justice. Mary Abugu’s daughter, Stella Abugu, was on the verge of starting a life of full adulthood. She had just completed her National Youth Service Corps programme. She had […]

Like any other media outlet, Channels Television represents a feature of modern democracy: Freedom of expression. The National Broadcast Commission (NBC) took a swipe at the sacred landmark when it issued a query to the […]

There is little doubt, even among unrepentant optimists, that the Nigerian economy is in dire strait in the past few months, particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this has elicited great concern […]

THE world, especially countries with a high burden of malaria, received the news of a candidate vaccine with high hope. The novel vaccine demonstrated an unmatched 77 per cent efficacy in trials in Africa. The […]

Nigeria should have more than a passing interest at events unfolding in Chad since the demise of Idriss Déby Itno. In his imperfection, Déby was a strategic ally that secured his flank against invaders and […]

Too often, President Muhammadu Buhari has appeared – to citizens, commentators, and even his supporters – as too silent on burning national issues. The perception is not misplaced, going by his relative lack of reaction […]

Ideas, especially profound ones, make the world a better place. On that score, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group has once again proffered salient ideas to the Muhammadu Buhari regime as it tries to resuscitate the […]

Over the years, the office of the First lady, at both federal and state levels, has gained immeasurable recognition and appreciation in the country such that any move aimed at formalising it now will, rather […]

INFLEXIBLE as ever, the Presidency recently once more flippantly, and unwisely, dismissed the agonising cries of Nigerians for restructuring. It also labelled separatist agitators as “enemies of the country.” Shortly afterwards, the National Economic Council, […]

The upper house of the National Assembly, the Senate, the other day, alarmed the country over the deteriorating security of lives and property. It suddenly woke up to the reality apparent to even the ordinary […]

The preponderance of illegal arms milling around the country at the alarming proportion being witnessed in the country is frightening. The political class, the elite, and indeed all Nigerians should be worried that such arms […]

The level of frustration of Nigerians over worsening power supply problems lately is better imagined than experienced, following in particular, the collapse of several power plants in the country, coupled with constraints of procuring gas […]

PRESENTED with another opportunity to rise to the stature of a statesman, the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), instead sank deeper into his familiar swamp of sectarianism and divisiveness. This may lead to a significant […]

The Federal Government can no longer continue to shy away from frontally confronting the absurdities inherent in the country’s downstream petroleum sector that has witnessed galloping prices in the midst of huge and endless government […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent travel to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up has again raised concern, appropriately, over the poor state of the country’s healthcare system. The president returned to the country on Thursday, […]

NEARLY a year after the heinous murder of George Floyd, 46, by a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, justice was finally served on Tuesday when a Hennepin County District Court found the officer guilty of […]

As the remains of social critic and human rights activist Yinka Odumakin is lowered onto Mother Earth tomorrow, the depleting human rights community would feel the absence of one of the fiercest critics of bad […]

In a seeming spotlight of the fragility of the Nigerian state, the governors of eastern Nigeria rose to establish a local security outfit co-named Ebube Agu as an outcome of the South East Security Summit […]

THE recent launch of a region-wide security outfit by the five South-Eastern state governors represents a ray of light in a zone spiralling into the dark tunnel of insecurity. The joint security and vigilante network, […]