The death verdict delivered by the Lagos High Court on a dismissed police officer for unlawfully killing a pregnant lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, may not bring back her precious life so brutally terminated; but it should send a strong signal to careless and trigger-happy cops, who treat fellow citizens with contempt, ostensibly because of the […]
Continue ReadingBy Kayode Oseni The dreaded pandemic sometime ago, and its resultant loss in lives was said to be as a result of a mutated corona virus, tagged covid-19. Conspiracy theories were circulating around about the possible implication of 5G network in that pandemic. Whether this is true or not is yet to be ascertained. But […]
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Akeredolu and Ayedatiwa Hardball The Ondo gubernatorial impeachment wars have hit a dangerous tempo, with the hawks on both sides going for broke. The APC should stay steady: it should defang these hawks and negotiate a truce. That’s the party’s best bet, if it must not blunder into a self-set ambush, at governorship election time, […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Senior police officers and allied security chiefs are gathering in Owerri, Imo State from Monday, 30 October till 01 November to bounce ideas on enhanced security mechanism, also predictably to sharpen skills. But it is more. It is not just a retreat for strategic and senior police officers from the ranks of […]
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Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. Photo/FACEBOOK/MuhammaduBuhari Lamentations by the leadership of the country’s judiciary on the increasing volume of cases in the courts, and how these constitute a serious burden on the judicial system, is a development that should worry all well-meaning Nigerians. On the one hand, it portrays the citizens as enlightened […]
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A Palestinian man carries a wounded child in his arms following an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. – Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were on October 17, headed towards the […]
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By Tunde Olusunle Tunde Olusunle At one of the earliest editions of the reinvented Mbari Series, perhaps the inaugural, I suggested that we should endeavour to help purposely grow the library of Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA), by donating books and similar resource materials. My idea is that writers who are already published for instance, […]
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By Martins Oloja Al Maktoum Let’s continue to enjoy the ‘inside stuff’ of the leadership manual the iconic UAE leader at this time published in 2012, which I think dealers who pose as leaders need at this time. We need this inspiration from one of the world’s centres of excellence at this time, UAE. We […]
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By Tagbo T. Ufondu On the economic front, he hired economic internationalists and nationalists to find a cure for the huge debt at that time. His appointees delivered a clean slate with Western creditors of Europe and America. Also at the same time Obasanjo delivered a banking sector consolidation through the central bank, enabling deposits […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The world is yet to see the light at the end of the dark and long tunnel over the turmoil engendered by the Ukraine-Russian War which has, as of the last count in August, left 300,000 dead. It is believed that the chilling figure has climbed to about half a million. The […]
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