Category: Opinion

Boko Haram terrorists The claim by the Federal Government that it is doing much to investigate, find, and ostensibly prosecute financiers of Boko Haram terrorists (and hopefully similar groups) rings hollow in the face of the daily reality that confronts Nigerians. If indeed such effort is being exerted, it appears so far as motion without […]

Nothern traditional rulers Recent call by the Alayetoro of Ayetoro-Ekiti, Oba Samuel Olufisan Ajayi, seeking roles for traditional rulers in the nation’s security architecture and the suspension of the Emir of Yandoto Tsafe Local Council of Zamfara State, Aliyu Marafa for conferring a chieftaincy title on a notorious bandit leader and criminal, Ado Aleru, represent […]

By Martins Oloja After so many years of contextual reporting of how Nigeria’s fragile economic state has been affecting various sectors of the same economy, senior media managers rose from a unique workshop of their own at the weekend in Lagos where there was some stakeholder consensus that the authorities and business managers in Nigeria […]

The lamentable condition of pensioners across the country over unpaid gratuities and pensions has become a recurring decimal in many of the 36 states. The attitude of the respective state governments is aggravating the suffering and anguish of the pensioners as well as desecrating the primary purpose of government which is to pursue the welfare […]

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan celebrates setting a world record in the women’s 100m hurdles final during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 24, 2022; (Photo by Jewel Samad / AFP) Quite apart from the euphoria of having a Nigerian athlete broke a world record at a prestigious international competition in […]

By Matthew Agboma Ozah There is no gainsaying that university institutions are scattered across the country in drove, yet students are not learning in them, instead they languish and are frustrated at home. More so, the lecturers who are supposed to nurture and guarantee solid knowledge on the youth are idling away at home or […]

The idea being mooted by the House of Representatives that brain drain of medical doctors can be stopped by legislation is a misnomer; a mere wishful thinking that can only scratch the problem on the surface. Exodus of doctors and other medical personnel to foreign land is not new, though it is obviously intensifying the […]

Overwhelmed by challenges of governance, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he is eager to leave office. He made the confession when governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) paid him Sallah homage in Daura, Katsina State. “It has been tough,” he quipped. The president has just 10 months for his wish to come […]

By Martins Oloja “There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry […]

Osun election. Photo/Facebook/inecnigeria The just-concluded gubernatorial elections in Osun State showed one of the beauties of democracy – that is, the people-power to freely elect their leaders at the polls. Despite a pocket of roguish disturbances, vote-buying and inducements, more conspicuous was the courage of dissatisfied people to floor an incumbent; the umpire showing ability […]