Category: Opinion

ASUU members during their meeting with the House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, which led to the suspension of the strike No doubt, the decision by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend their eight-month long strike has provided a big relief to all Nigerians who are largely stakeholders in the matter. Students and their […]

There are more economic troubles for the world, the World Bank warns. The global bank noted, yesterday, from its Washington DC headquarters that the shrinking value of the currencies of most developing economies is driving up food and fuel prices in ways that could deepen the food and energy crises that many of them already […]

By Dare Babarinsa So, Rishi Sunak is now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is the first person of Asian origin to become the PM of that great country. After the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, the great Prime Minister of Britain, was very […]

The on-going move by the Court of Appeal to make lawyers its members on that bench is encouraging and worthy of being pursued to its logical end. For one, lawyers are suitable candidates for appointment as judges to the Appeal Court so long as they meet the constitutional requirement of a minimum of 12 years […]

President Muhammadu Buhari (left); National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Moguno (rtd); Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor; Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo; Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao and Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali during the National Security meeting at […]

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu By Mohammed Haruna The trigger for this rather longish article is the controversy that has surrounded recent party primaries for candidates for next year’s two-part General Election which will begin with those of the President and members of the National Assembly on February 25, 2023, and end with those of […]

The admonition by Catholic bishops against the use of the pulpit for partisan politics is timely and speaks directly to the danger of using religion to promote political tension, or to engender hate speech in a way to undermine the polity. This despicable practice has lately become a regular habit of some clerics, much against […]

By Ray Ekpu Composite image of Governor Nyesom Wike (left) and former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar At the last presidential primaries two Rivers State indigenes came next to the winners. Nyesom Wike was the first runner up in the PDP primaries while Rotimi Amaechi came second to Bola Tinubu in the APC. Both men […]

Pronouncement that bail is free in police stations in the country, as recently made by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Alabi, is a pertinent reminder to both the citizens and policemen of the sacred principle of liberty of the individual as a fundamental right enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution. In other words, […]

By Tayo Oke The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria has been thrown into a tailspin following the judgment of the Court of Appeal, last week, October 13, 2022, which threw out the criminal charges against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, on the ground that the Federal Government had violated […]