Banditry, abduction on redline
Carl Umegboro Road trips along the Kaduna-Abuja highway is cataclysmically becoming more than nightmares. Simply put; a no-go area. The rate of armed banditry, kidnapping and sundry heinous crimes...
View ArticleNigerians should talk on how to co-exist
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The late comedian, Mohammed Danjuma, told the joke of how he was once mid-air inside a plane only to see one man in parachute knocking on his window and telling him: “I don go-o! Na...
View ArticleSocial responsibility: The Adeboye example
Promise Adiele The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye means many things to different people. To dedicated members of his church, he is simply Daddy...
View ArticleAPC and party supremacy
Modestus Umenzekwe Quite often we mislead ourselves into believing that President Muhammadu Buhari is the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and every command and direction passes through his...
View ArticleLeah Sharibu: If she were elite’s daughter, would she still be in captivity?
Fredrick Nwabufo A man with bloodied “babanriga” and with head cocked down, sat emotionlessly in the driver’s seat of a Land Cruiser jeep at Kurmin Kare village, along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway in...
View ArticleEthnic politics in Nigeria
As some geo-political zones are silently jostling for an edge to produce the Nigerian president come 2019, quality of leadership is, unfortunately, no longer a necessary condition for choosing a leader...
View ArticleDissecting the nation’s problems
Oludayo Tade DIAGNOSING the problems confronting Nigeria, Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora have consistently accused the military long stay in power as a major cause. The same factor created...
View ArticleBeyond the travails of Saraki
Segun Showunmi Nature makes fine gold go through the fire to purify it and make it into finer gold. Any sincere observer of the travails of ‘Oloye’ as he is fondly called will see nothing but an...
View ArticleImproving the health sector
Ayo Oyoze Baje The statistics are startling, scary and indeed scandalous-talking about the human capital development challenge currently bedeviling Nigeria’s much-neglected health sector. Think about...
View ArticleFIRS: Quiet, steady progress in tax reforms
Bukar Kachalla A major national lesson for the government and citizens of Nigeria over the last five years is that oil revenue, on which the country is almost totally dependent to fund development,...
View ArticleThe South East and 2023
Although the 2023 date for another round of general election season in the country is still very far, it is also very close depending on who is looking at it and from what angle and vision. For...
View ArticleAs Imo awaits Ihedioha
Chuks Ajoku In about one week or so from now, most states of the federation will be welcoming their newly elected governors in the saddle. They will be taking over from outgoing governors who have...
View ArticleUgwuanyi and the completion of Enugu Conference Centre
Mathias Ugwuada Recently in the news is the timely and right move by Enugu state government under Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s watch to complete the abandoned multi-million nairaEnugu International...
View ArticleBuhari’s second term and the education sector
Jerome-Mario Utomi Given the studied humility with which Nigerians accepted the outcome of the just concluded 2019 general elections in the country, it will not be an overstatement to say that the...
View ArticleGodfatherism: Tinubu, el-Rufai and Banire
Sola Fanawopo Events in the past two weeks have generated a line of discourse involving the trio of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN and on which I ordinarily...
View Articleel-Rufai: Governor in need of guidance
Farouk Nasheed Last week, Kaduna Sate governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai made a strange incursion into Lagos politics. After a rather forgettable, anodyne presentation before the Bridge Club in posh Ikoyi...
View ArticleMaking Ore an industrial hub
Steve Otaloro The mention of Ore town will send chills down the spine of so many people who can still remember the great battle that took place there in the late sixties. It is the town where hundreds...
View ArticleOf NLC’s furore and Ngige’s stewardship
Nwachukwu Obidiwe Unfortunately, the dust arising from the skirmishes between the Hon. Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige and one of the nation’s labour centres, the Nigerian Labour...
View ArticleHow we can reduce road crashes — Expert
Okwe Obi, Abuja The Executive Director of GreenLight Initiative, Simon Obi, has advocated compulsory road safety course for all drivers in a bid to simmer down the growing cases of road crashes...
View ArticleFunke Egbemode’s 2nd term: Matters arising
It is quite unfortunate that a very good friend of mine who has distinguished himself in journalism and “paid his dues”, Mr. Steve Osuji of The Nation Newspapers, was embarrassingly and ignominiously...
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