Lagos: Inevitability of state police
Nigerians do not have confidence in the Nigeria Police because of a combination of factors that border on unprofessionalism, incompetence, insecurity, banditry, nonchalance, high-handedness,...
View ArticleThe $9.6bn judgment: A curious red herring
Charles Onunaiju That Nigeria, its government and supposedly enlightened public opinion are suffused and embroiled in the controversy of a London court judgment debt of a whopping 9.6 billion U.S...
View ArticlePlastics and the use of biodegradable
Gamaka Phillips A frenzy of scientific research is going on around the world to find lasting and contributory solution to the negative impact of plastics materials (which cause litter, choking of...
View ArticleBoosting education through SBMC synergy
Carl Umegboro “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible”. These were the words of a British statesman, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill who was a...
View ArticleThe youths and leadership question
Alex Enemanna Recent times have ushered in a legion of media unfriendly reports on our corporate image as a people and citizens of the largest black nation. Sadly, the youths have been fingered to...
View ArticleInternet fraud: Tribal identity and the nation’s image
Jerome-Mario Utomi Two separate but similar reports that left me lost in the maze of high voltage confusion in the past few weeks or thereabout are; the FBI’s release of the names of eighty suspects...
View ArticlePrisons: New minister, better laws
President Muhammadu Buhari recently took a bold step towards reforming Nigeria’s prisons with the signing into law of the Nigeria Correctional Services Act 2019, which repealed the Prisons Act 2018. By...
View ArticleIllegal migration across the mediterranean sea
G.N. Chapp-Jumbo Spain’s two enclaves in Morocco–Ceuta and Melilla have been favoured entry points into Europe for African migrants who either clamber over their border wire fences or swim across their...
View ArticleThe killings on Lafia-Akwanga road
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano The recent attack on the convoy of the Nasarawa State deputy governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe who is barely three months old in office along the Lafia – Akwanga road in Nasarawa...
View ArticleFlood alert: When a stitch in time saves nine
IT doesn’t pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don’t make sense – Debra Doyle, American Author Our ‘fire brigade’ approachto issues that affect us has brought us unexpected and incalculable...
View ArticleThe politics of second Niger Bridge
I’m still marveled at the speed at which the construction of a new bridge over the Lewisville Lake was done. The stretch of the new bridge on Interstate 35E in Lewisville that connects Dallas and other...
View ArticleThe new vision in Imo
Before during and after the 2019 gubernatorial election, Imo State was very much in the news for absolutely wrong reasons. Apart from the politics of succession in the camp of the All Progressives...
View ArticleUgwuanyi’s steady progress and need to inject new blood
Andrew Chiahalam Apeh For some times, I have been pondering on the slogan “Enugu state is in the hand of God,” and it has become obvious to me that God is indeed ruling in the affairs of Enugu State,...
View ArticleNigeria and the FBI criminal list
Bob Majiri Oghene Etemiku In recent times, there have been many stories making the rounds concerning Nigerians in the US and other parts of the world arrested for internet fraud or drug smuggling. The...
View ArticleNigeria Correctional Service and the minister of interior
Inwalomhe Donald Across the country, facilities of the now Nigeria Correctional Service (until recently known as the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS) are so decrepit, derelict, over-populated and in...
View ArticlePowers of Chief of Staff and the Nigerian presidency (I)
Eric Teniola The office of the Chief of Staff to the President as we all know, was not created by the constitution. Today, after twenty years, the office is one of the most envied in the land. The...
View ArticleOdunmbaku: A Beneficiary of Manifold Grace
Femi Salako Life is deemed to be good at old age if an elderly person is blessed with the combined gifts of good health, sound mind and fulfilled desires. God in His infinite kindness has chosen to...
View ArticleWhat is it about 100 days in office?
Tayo Ogunbiyi Over time, the idea of 100 days in office has been used to measure the success or failure of governments. While famous American writer and author, Kenneth T. Walsh, believes that 100...
View ArticleBiodiversity conservation and the rest of us
Oliver Ejike Uja NATURAL Species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don’t make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. – Thomas E. Lovejoy Recently a Director...
View ArticleAgenda for the minister of sports
Emmanuel Onwubiko Currently, I am battling to finish with the arduous task of reading some key books I recently bought. One of such books is the latest copy from Richard Templar who is an award winning...
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