Category: Opinion

By Sheriffdeen Tella It is not uncommon to read reports of the destruction of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region. The appellation ‘illegal’ could have arisen from the fact that the crude oil being refined was stolen from the oil rigs or reserves; or probably because the refineries did not go through official company […]

President Tinubu and his ministers By Jide Ojo I watched the colourful swearing-in of 45 out of the proposed 48 ministers of President Bola Tinubu last Monday, August 21. It came 84 days after the president’s inauguration on May 29, 2023. It’s the seventh of such in this Fourth Republic which started in 1999. Hearty […]

An accident scene on Auchi–Okene Road The death of 4,387 persons in road accidents in Nigeria between January and June 2023 draws fresh attention to the shabby state of roads nationwide, the flouting of safety regulations, and the failure of law enforcement agencies to impose order on the highways. The Federal Road Safety Corps stated […]

By Monday Ubani In 1993 what you may consider a bizarre event occurred in the continent of Africa and the location was Nigeria. General Ibrahim Badamosi Babaginda was President and Commander in Chief under whose watch the heinous act against Nigerians was committed. The foundation for the annulment of the June 12 presidential election of […]

ECOWAS Chiefs of Defense Staff after their meeting in Abuja recently By Adama Gaye Everybody saw the coming disaster but the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) whose top leaders, the Heads of State and Governments of its Member States, except the four countries under military regimes they have outlawed – blindly decided on […]

For a country like Nigeria with her huge potential, and enterprising people in the haste of real development, it remains pathetic that despite higher ranking among countries in the world with huge mobile connections today, manufacturing of mobile phones in Nigeria has remained a mirage, as over 99 percent of mobile devices in the country […]

By Oluwayemisi Oyeronke Alaba There has been a welter of strong negative public opinions against the seeming flip-flop attitude of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over some of his planned policies targeted at addressing multi-dimensional poverty in the country. First, he mooted the idea of giving eight thousand Naira to 12 million poor households in Nigeria […]

Deborah Yakubu… lynched The observance today worldwide of the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief holds special significance for Nigeria where sectarian extremism is flourishing and spilling rivers of blood. The United Nations designated August 22 each year to draw global attention to religion-fuelled violence, the plight […]

By Monday Ubani The various electoral laws in Africa have provisions that make the judiciary have the final say on both Pre and Post Election conflicts. No one should be in doubt as to the competence or capacity of the Judiciary in the continent to adjudicate on election issues whether it concerns pre-election or post-election […]