Ruga not rugged enough
Banji Ojewale After a long season of dithering over how to respond to nationwide killings by Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria, the federal authorities this week finally came up with an initiative proving...
View ArticleEpie/atissa’s politcal albatross: time for empathy
Etete Enideneze Epie/Atissa in Yenagoa Local Government Area, core host of the Bayelsa State Capital is marginalized in the state’s power sharing equation. Since democracy began in 1999, and in the 23...
View ArticleECOWAS common currency and vain economic policies
Ikenna Emewu The original plan of the ECOWAS, a 44-year old union, as at May this year, is the facilitation of regional economic growth. That was patently defined in the Treaty of Lagos of May 25 which...
View ArticleGovernment should cancel the Ruga policy
It is very sad that when trouble is sleeping, “iyanga” will go a long way to look for him and wake it. Iyanga is probably sleeping and dozing off before Iyanga straddles to wake it up. This opening...
View ArticleRevisiting the SEC-Oando raging controversies
Joshua Afolabi People who are dishonest, or rash, or stupid will inevitably suffer the penalties of dishonesty, or rashness, or stupidity – Herbert Spencer Quite amusingly but with great lessons to...
View ArticleDenouncement of unscripted ‘ruga settlements’ policy
Sufuyan Ojeifo The ballyhoo over “ruga settlements”, which the Ministry of Agriculture wanted to mischievously deploy in supplanting the original and scripted National Livestock Transformation Plan...
View ArticleSouthwest security and our governors’ dilemma
Abiodun Komolafe Osun Economic and Investment Summit is reportedly put on hold! Earlier scheduled to take place between 25th and 27th, June 2019, reports had it that the postponement was not...
View ArticleRuga settlements: Lesson from Edo private ranches
Inwalomhe Donald After public outcry and condemnation, President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the establishment of Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative for herdsmen in the country. Mr. President has...
View ArticleThe case for state police
Alex Enemanna Going by the major appointments in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) a fortnight ago, it is obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari is not going to caress any federal...
View ArticleSen. Abbo: When apology isn’t enough
Anyone who has been following with keen interest, some happenings in the country in recent weeks, in particular, the tawdry rape allegation against pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion...
View ArticleEnugu and the purveyors of social media falsehood
George Ude As a student and teacher of Mass Communication/ Journalism for years now, I am totally baffled, marveled and at loss on how Nigerians haveabused the social media platforms, by using it to...
View ArticleA governor and his passion for road sanity
Kayode Ojewale Lagos, the Centre of Excellence and state of Aquatic Splendor, is unarguably the most populated state in Nigeria. With a population of about 20 million people, it is faced with many...
View ArticleThe rage against Ruga
Ayo Oyoze Baje The compelling urge to personalize political power remains one of the endemic evils and aberrations of the odious brand of democracy we currently run here in Nigeria. But while such...
View ArticleSetting the agenda for Abba Kyari’s second coming
Adebayo Olakunle On Friday July 5, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari made his first major appointments for his second term. The President gave the nod to Boss Mustapha and Abba Kyari to continue as...
View ArticleRUGA: Issues and perspectives
Promise Adiele Nigerian novelist, Cyprian Ekwensi’s “Burning Grass” portrays the idiosyncrasies of herdsmen which includes but not limited to diabolism, strife, and violence associated with conquest....
View ArticleNigeria’s rising poverty
Ayo Oyoze Baje You must have read in recent weeks about the sleeplessness of our dear Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Mind you, it has nothing to do with election matters. After all, his party,...
View ArticleLet the youths wake up (1)
Emmanuel Onwubiko As a young school leaver still deciding what to do with my young creative life, I encountered a political journal from the rich collections of books in my elder brother’s law library...
View ArticleSocial media: The good, bad and downright ugly
The social media, perhaps even more than the conventional media, is a force for great good and outright evil. And, at no time in the recent past has its power for both good and evil been as manifest as...
View ArticleAfCFTA: How Nigeria can win the trade deal
Funmilola Fadumiyo I have always been an advocate for how Nigeria can have 100,000 successful businesses especially with the tenacious entrepreneurial spirit of its people combined with its soaring...
View ArticleEnugu Airport downgrade threat and Ugwuanyi’s response
Laurence Ani On Friday, May 17 this year, many Enugu bound international travellers in locations like Newark, Kuala Lumpur, London, Johannesburg and various other cities were left utterly flustered as...
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