Category: Opinion

By Tony Ekata The world was jolted recently by events in Afghanistan. Barely two weeks after US president, Joe Biden, confidently declared that the Taliban could never take over power in Afghanistan because there were “over 300 000 US-trained army personnel in the country, compared to just 75, 000 Taliban,” Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled […]

Unsettled by abysmal leadership currently on offer by the political class, Nigerians earnestly look forward to a rescue mission at the 2023 general polls. Statesmen, groups, and even politicians are not left out of the anticipation, with some interesting permutations in the jostle for the next Presidential candidate. But beyond primitive sentiments of ethnicity, religion, […]

The state of insecurity in southern Nigeria worsened since 2016 when armed invaders from the North and the neighbouring West African countries disguised themselves as herdsmen and stormed the region. When the level of insecurity in the region became alarming, the 17 southern governors, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, met in Asaba, […]

Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17, 2021, after Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of the Afghan government. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi / AFP) The turn of events in Afghanistan that saw […]

By Kayode Komolafe In fewer than 24 hours that Governor Aminu Bello Masari justified his call on the people of Katsina state to take up arms in self-defence, some “unknown gunmen” attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy in the neighbouring Kaduna state yesterday, killing two officers and abducting another in the tragic event. It was as […]

The perennial occurrence of gas flaring and oil spills in the Niger Delta region of the country has become very worrisome. The stories of suffering of the people of the Niger Delta as a result of gas flaring is pathetic and should have no place in modern oil exploitation. Over the years, various governments from […]

By Ray Ekpu In the last few weeks some terrorists who claim to have repented are hopping out like twin rabbits from a conjuror’s hat. Some of them are carrying placards that say that they should be forgiven for their sins, that they have turned a new leaf and will never commit again the havoc […]

On the face of it, Nigerians would be happy that their fellow citizens who have gone astray to sin violently against the state and its people should repent. Recently, about 1000 terrorists including their families, from the Boko Haram and ISWAP groups surrendered to the Nigerian Army. Army spokesperson, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu said they renounced […]

President Muhammadu Buhari By Mike Ozekhome The PIB Bill just assented to as an Act of Parliament by President Muhammadu Buhari, is a mere ruse, a monstrosity, an artifice and device, carefully crafted, incubated and delivered, to actually do irretrievable violence to Nigeria’s progress and juris corpus. The Act constitutes a direct assault on age-long […]