Editorial

By their passionate appeal seeking constitutional support to contribute their quota to national development, Royal fathers, grouped as National Traditional Council of Nigeria clearly are desirous of a more stable Nigerian society. They, however, seem […]

The decision by the Federal Government to rehabilitate the moribund Port Harcourt Refinery with a whopping $1.5 billion is a contradiction in terms of the country’s oil and gas sector. Coming after series of unsuccessful […]

Christians all over the world mark today as “Good Friday.” It is the culmination of the 40-day period of lent and the climax of the passion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday celebrates the central mystery […]

THE impetuous decision of the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to abandon his duty post in the middle of a pandemic to consult medical doctors abroad exposes the legendary hypocrisy in his leadership style, which […]

IMPERVIOUS to the provisions prohibiting both states and the Federal Government from adopting any religion as state religion in the 1999 Constitution, the House of Representatives is considering a bill on the wearing of hijab […]

Treasonable assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is an insurrection against the state and deserving the full weight of the law. To treat as contrary and buy-time under the pretense of a […]

Given the revelations of misapplication of security funds under the immediate past administration, the skepticism with which Nigerians greeted recent statement and denial from the authorities is hardly surprising. In the past, the country had […]

A fresh warning of imminent famine by United Nations agencies crowned a week of bad news for Nigerians and the economy. The listing of the country among three vulnerable “hunger hotspots” followed a further spike […]

The case of Itunu Babalola, a Nigerian jailed in Ivory Coast will initially appear to be a scene out of a movie script by an imaginative writer of fiction but, sadly, it happened to a […]

CAPITALISING on the perfunctory interest of the electorate in local government administration, state governors in Nigeria are mercilessly manipulating the third tier of government to suit their inordinate political whims. Contrary to sound democratic norms, […]

As humanity seeks herd immunity from coronavirus, the apprehension being expressed in many quarters over the safety of vaccination is significant. It signposts, on the one hand, that the vaccine candidates’ option against the dreaded […]

There is a sense in which we can claim now that the internal contradictions of the Nigerian state have reached the height of rude awakening. There is also some general awareness that the constitutional scaffolding […]

IT has gone down history that Nigeria’s popular musician, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, best known as Burna Boy, became the first Nigerian to win the Grammy, the world’s biggest music award though some Nigerians had earlier […]

THE reported incarceration of a Nigerian in Ivory Coast to a 20-year jail-term for an offence she did not allegedly commit should propel the Federal Government to deploy its full diplomatic and political weight to […]

The continuous abduction of students and the resultant closures of schools, especially in Northern Nigeria, relay one message for the country: Nigeria is heading towards civilisation doom. As pessimistic as it seems, this is the […]

NIGERIA inched nearer a grave risk of an imminent eruption after vicious gunmen suspected to be ethnic militia attempted a brazen assassination on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom. In another unmistakable escalation of insecurity at […]

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws – Hunter S. Thompson (1937 – 2005), American journalist. Sir: The […]

Contrary to the optimistic impression recently given by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu that more children in Nigeria are being enrolled into schools, there may be no cause to cheer after all, going […]