A senate that works for Nigeria
OLA AWONIYI The ninth Nigerian Senate was inaugurated on June 11, 2019. The ninth Senate started on a peaceful note, with the election of the Senate President and other principal officers devoid of...
View ArticleWith Glo, our own don better in 2020
Let me elucidate on the prefatory pronoun in the headline. ‘Our’ here refers to friends of mine like Henry Ogbeifun and John Owah—both of whom a fortnight ago won tricycles (Keke Napep) in the ongoing...
View ArticleImproving road traffic management in the FCT
Danladi Akilu More glaring among the pressure that the unending influx of people into the FCT is having on available facilities is the heavy impact on intra city road traffic sector. The end result as...
View ArticleTrump’s impeachment and the probabilities
Carl Umegboro President of the United States of America, Donald Trump is no doubt in the midst of the storm having been impeached by the House of Representatives. Trump was accused of abuse of power...
View ArticleChristmas and new prayer points of a struggling citizen
Banji Ojewale Christmas came at the wrong time for my friend, 40-year-old Citizen Nigeriana. His singular contribution to his country is that as a poor man alienated from the good of the land, the...
View ArticleDogara @ 52: Portrait of a true patriot
Turaki A. Hassan Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara is 52 years old. Born on December 26, 1967 in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State, Dogara rose from a humble background in that rural community where Nigeria’s first and...
View Article2020: Africa and the burden of development
Jerome-Mario Utomi With the year 2020 now with us, it is just a decade, that separates us from the attainment of 2030 sustainable agenda- a United Nation initiative and successor programme to the...
View ArticleHealth and consumption of processed food
Kayode Ojewale Most times we are compelled to take a closer look at what we consume only when we are ill or when the body begins to show strange symptoms. Sometimes, we adhere strictly to taking some...
View ArticleTo be your best in 2020
Ayo Baje “Your potential is unlimited. Aspire to a higher place. Believe in your abilities, in your tasks, in your judgment”. – Bryan Adams. As usual, the New Year presents before us the opportunity...
View ArticleThe making of Igbo president
Chuma Uwechia On a beautiful fall evening last week,with foliage sparking into wild colors ofamber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays, I sauntered into a Nigerian party in Long Island, New York...
View ArticleHuman rights vs. national security
Chimezie Elemuo It is no longer news that the civil society groups that converged at the National Human Rights Commission on 23th December 2019 to register their grievance against the re-arrest and...
View ArticleChina and Africa in 2020 and beyond
Charles Onunaiju “The extraordinary rise of China is unprecedented in world history and the biggest geopolitical development of the first two decades of the 21st century; it is likely to continue to be...
View ArticleStrengthening the audit process
Charles Ofomata The Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (OAuGF) has just recently published the audited report for the financial statements of the federation for the year ended 31st...
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Tribute to Senator Uwajumogu
Dickson Okafor Death, according to Julius Caesar “is a necessary end, it will come when it will come.” The death of Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu on December 18, 2019 will always be remembered by the...
View ArticleAPC and its friendly enemies
Psychologists world over are in agreement that studying human behavior is a difficult task in spite of the fact that it is what that field of study precisely sets out to do. According to the American...
View ArticleChristmas celebration controversy and other matters (1)
Gozie Irogboli The debate about the propriety or otherwise of celebrating Christmas is not new in the world. The Puritans of the 17th Century England, members of Jehovah Witness sect and some other...
View ArticleUdom’s plan to uplift rural communities
Pius Teke Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel kicked off his second term with a promise to take development beyond urban centres to the rural areas where the bulk of the population resides. And for...
View ArticleAbdulrazaq’s revocation order and other matters
Olatunde Ajikobi Since the controversy over the revocation of the rights of occupancy on Plots 1, 3 and 5, Ilofa Road, GRA in Ilorin broke last week end, one has been wondering why Governor...
View ArticleUniversity of Nigeria and those neocolonial witches of CAN
Henry A. Onwubiko Ph.D What recently happened in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka over the palaver of witches and their witchcraft parodies a similar but more macabre tragedy in history which led to...
View ArticleAs Folorunsho Abdulrazaq reclaims his glory in Kwara
Eric Teniola On March 29, the body of benchers honoured One hundred and thirty-two outstanding lawyers in Abuja. The Body of Benchers is a statutory body established by the Legal Practitioner Act of...
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