Category: Opinion

Determined, sufficiently-resourced, well-armed and aided by the weakness of the Nigerian state, Islamic terrorists of various stripes – Boko Haram, Ansaru, ISWAP, bandits, and Fulani herdsmen – are moving to achieve their avowed aim of overthrowing the Nigerian state. On Sunday, they demonstrated their confidence, and ability to operate anywhere in the country by ambushing […]

Photo: Twitter/HopeUzodinma1 The reported massacre of 14 persons in Otulu Awomama, in Oru West Local Council of Imo State by security personnel of the state is most unfortunate and leaves sour taste in the mouth. There are salient questions begging for answer; and the state government should not be seen to be anxious to sweep […]

News report the other day that chronic use of cell phones may be associated with brain tumour should be taken exactly as a warning that it is, rather than waved aside as yet another undue alarm. Bearing in mind that there is hardly a positive phenomenon devoid of a negative side, this warning is not […]

Media report that, in the Birni Gwari Local Council of Kaduna State, members of the Ansaru terrorist group openly preached their religious beliefs and distributed handbills to this end during the last Eid-el- Kabir festival is outrageous and unacceptable in a country with three levels of government, an array of covert and overt security apparatus […]

President Buhari at the scene of the attack Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola was sadly confirming what Nigerians always knew when he expressed regret last week that there was a lack of will by government to act on intelligence reports gathered prior to the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre. Terrorists’ invasion of Kuje Medium Security […]

Photo/Facebook/TheAsoVilla By Martins Oloja This is a time to be cynical and censorious about the state of the nation. It is also a defining moment to counsel crisis merchants who live by the temple of sycophancy that they should sheathe their swords at this perilous time. We need to tell them that they should allow […]

Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls Hauwa Joseph (L) and Mary Dauda pose with their babies at Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on June 21, 2022. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) As pathetic as their tales may be, it is still a matter of great relief that two of the school girls captured by Boko Haram […]

Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP Monsignor Martins carried out the task with his accustomed fairness. Born in Lagos in 1910, he was the grandson of a Brazilian slaver. His paternal grandmother was an ethnic Hausa. He grew up in a household that observed Christian and Moslem traditions. This background would seem to explain his […]

By Jide Ojo The last off-cycle governorship election before the 2023 general elections was held last Saturday, July 16, 2022 in Osun State. The outcome was an upset for the ruling All Progressives Congress which had hoped to consolidate its hold on the agrarian state. However, the day after the poll, the Independent National Electoral […]

The recent news of the attack, in which more than 30 military personnel, seven policemen and scores of others were reportedly killed by terrorists at a mining site in Shiroro Local Council of Niger State, is like many others before and after it, one of the most potent advertisements of a regime that is willfully […]