The ongoing focus at the national level on family planning and population control in Nigeria could not have come at a more audacious time. In one or two decades from now, Nigeria will become the third most populous country, coming after China and India. And already, there is a big strain on the family regarding […]
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By Idowu Akinlotan Their arguments about who owns the oil in the Niger Delta region may not qualify as the controversy of the year, but they typify the continuing frustrations faced by Niger Deltans and the unending nonchalance of Nigerian rulers. More than sixty years after oil was discovered in the troubled region, the country […]
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The resort to cannibalism by daredevil kidnappers in an Imo State community has introduced a dangerous and frightening dimension to the criminality ravaging parts of the South-East. The development is condemnable in its entirety. Government should rise up to the challenge. The degenerate state of insecurity in Imo State, of recent, has become another source […]
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With the wave of killings, kidnapping, arson and other criminalities spreading across many northern states, it is slightly consoling that at last, the perpetrators, hitherto labelled ‘bandits’ in the North West and North Central have been properly recognised as terrorists that they really are. Thanks to an order from the Bench, the Buhari administration has […]
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Bisi Akande’s autobiography By Sam Omatseye It is a series of words as pinprick. It began as a book presentation, and the bigwigs of the Nigerian political firmament gathered, especially of the APC hue. The president, Muhammadu Buhari, in his full light-blue babaringa and loosed-limbed with humour, was accompanied by a raft of governors. That […]
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By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei When at the beginning of December, l predicted that, workers in the employment of the Ondo State Government will celebrate Christmas on empty stomachs, the government propaganda machinery dismissed it with the wave of the hand. The empty markets across the State, the gloom in many homes and inability to purchase […]
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It’s Christmas day, December 25, 2021. Nigerian Christians of all denominations join their fellow Christians across the world in celebrating the good news of the incarnation, that portentous event by which “the Word became Flesh, and dwelt among us.” It is a central doctrine of the Christian faith that the Son of Most High God, […]
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Winner of the 1993 Presidential election which was annulled by the military regime of Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retired), Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, who was arrested and detained by the military regime of the late Gen Sani Abacha for his famous Epetedo Declaration, where he declared himself winner of the election. Abiola died in detention […]
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Photo/facebook/JKayodeFayemi By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu This Christmas is the last that Governor Kayode Fayemi will spend as the helmsman of Ekiti State. He happens to be term-limited and cannot seek further re-election as governor. Some of the other outgoing governors have had recourse to retire to the Senate. The leadership recruitment process in Nigeria has […]
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By Atedo Peterside There was an outbreak of COVID in my house as last weekend approached and so I told myself that I must do the correct thing. I immediately went into self isolation (because I had been exposed) and started canceling all physical engagements that I had committed to attend over the course of […]
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