Now that they want restructuring
It is understandable that the Nigeria political terrain has become this charged as it is only about six months to the general elections. While all the elections are important, the most significant...
View ArticleOsun Election: Waiting for another INEC?
During his screening exercise before the senate prior to his confirmation as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmud Yakubu had, in response to one of the questions...
View ArticleAS NAF tasks personnel to fight terrorists, bandits to standstill
You must be courageous, take the battle to all the adversaries of our great nation, be they terrorists, insurgents, bandits or any other criminal elements, in synergy with our Sister Services and other...
View ArticleJUNE 12 CELEBRATIONS; GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL!
Like a stubborn sphinx that refused to be interred, June 12 has risen after 26 years to get its rightful place in the annals of the country’s history. When those that procured and sustained the...
View ArticleThe Peace of the Graveyard: RUGA and Nigeria’s Future
Fulanis and other Nigerian nationalities deserve SENSIBLE solutions to their problems. The victims of criminal herdsmen deserve JUSTICE. They have not received it. Any “solution” to the herdsmen...
View ArticleLet’s avert the looming disaster at Akanu Ibiam airport, Enugu
Regular airline passengers flying between Enugu, Abuja and Lagos are familiar with the bumpy take-off and landing due to the dilapidated runway of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu and the...
View ArticleIt’s Disaster When Soldiers Do Police Work
If anyone is looking for a perfect illustration and confirmation of the “coming anarchy” in Nigeria, that person needs not look farther than the on-going conflict and crisis of mutual distrust between...
View ArticleWhen Esu, god of construction and destruction, mapped own role in Nigeria
The Agbekoya war is indisputably one of the focal points of the most successive resistance to the Nigerian state. The peasant farmers union had gone berserk in the Western Region, in protestation...
View ArticleAmerica, Their America
The title of this piece isn’t an original from my ” fertile mind” as Patrick Albert, a colleague and former Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) would like...
View ArticleAisha Buhari’s unending drama amidst Nigerian child’s plight
If President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, devotes half of the energy invested in fighting the cabal in Aso Rock to pressing for the welfare of the Nigerian child, perhaps, there could have been a...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Keeping Secrets In Islam
In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, Bestower of Mercy All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all creation. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon the Messenger, his family, his Companions and those...
View ArticleThe Nigerian Political Economy In A Time of Corona Virus
Unfortunately, there is no respite because it is a buyer’s market out there. Nigeria’s Bonny light cannot sell because we are demanding higher selling prices than Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Saudi and Iraq...
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