Editorial

The recent ouster of Omar al-Bashir as Sudanese leader, which launches the north-eastern African country into a new era, marks a historic moment that will echo across the continent, where he was one of Africa’s […]

Arguably, kidnapping has become the most profitable crime in Nigeria today. This is because of the huge ransoms being paid by friends and families of abduction victims, which has now made more people to embrace […]

The Governor of Zamfara State and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulaziz Yari, last week, said that there was a likelihood that Nigeria might slip into another economic recession in 2020 that may […]

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on everyone to defend the rights of journalists whose efforts help to build a better world for all. In a message read by the Director, UN Information […]

THE hopelessness of Nigeria’s power sector and its negative impact on the economy are being brought home daily. Just how shaky, was repeated by the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Usman Mohammed, […]

TRAVELLING on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become an unspeakable nightmare for Nigerians, thus highlighting the deteriorating state of security in the country. Last Monday, dare-devil gunmen kidnapped the Chairman, Universal Basic Education Commission, Muhammad Abubakar […]

The quick and firm reaction by the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to a number of extra-judicial killings by some of his officers is quite commendable. In a short period of three weeks, six […]

A new report by the United Nations Population Fund has reiterated the obvious: Life has become so short in Nigeria. In its 2019 State of the World report, the United Nations agency says Nigeria’s life […]

Many more Nigerians are falling victim to the systemic rot in the country’s health sector. Inexcusably, hospitals are grossly inadequate, poorly equipped and underfunded. With an acute shortage of personnel, the hope that the sick […]

One of the pioneer officers and finest gentlemen ever to be produced by the Nigeria Army, Major-General David Akpode Ejoor (OFR, GCON) who answered the final summons of humanity on 10th of February 2019 at […]

The carnage on innocent Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen that reached its zenith with the mass killings in Benue and Plateau state in early 2018 seems to have resumed with the recent mass killings in Numa […]

A biometric capturing of Subscriber Identity Module cards, mangled by ill-deployment of technology, has rendered 95.7 million of them invalid. This figure is staggering. The registration process, which began in 2011, recorded the data of […]

In about four weeks, the Eighth National Assembly will be dissolved. For a parliament that a lot was expected from, being dominated by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, which rode to power on […]

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, […]

The ranks of Africa’s “big men” thinned further as popular uprisings in Algeria culminated in the ouster of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime and that of his counterpart in Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, this month. These dictators […]

Super Eagles are a big brand in Africa. On global stage, the team is also highly rated because of the enormous talents of the country scattered all over the world. Any tournament in Africa without […]

IT is never an easy task picking up the pieces after an acrimonious electoral season, but President Muhammadu Buhari can give the healing process a huge lift by signing the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018 into […]

A report that the Federal Government failed to markedly implement the capital budget in fiscal 2017 continues a worrying trend of consumption over investment. Findings by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission that only N1.4 trillion of […]

In an apparent extension of the Arab Spring dubbed by some observers as Arab Spring 2.0, Sudan’s long time ruler, President Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the military the other day in the same manner […]

A report that some University teachers who served as returning officers were fingered as accessories after the fact of some rigging in 2019 election is very embarrassing and tragic. Alas, if university dons and administrators […]