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Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has thrown a veiled shade against the newly-elected UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, for making snide comments about Nigeria. Sani said that a Nigerian singing the colonial song in the UK parliament will not change his or her true identity. “No matter how much and how long an adopted […]
Among the class of President Bola Tinubu’s ministers and appointees, Dele Alake, the minister of Solid Minerals, stands out, holding up a redemptive banner. Dr. Alake is not an engineer. He’s a broad-spectrum journalist and administrator, having crisscrossed the labyrinthine landscape of broadcast, print journalism and public communication. Professionally rounded and fit. But nobody expected […]
The debate over which system of government is most appropriate for a multi-ethnic and geographically diverse Nigeria has suddenly resurfaced. This time, it is pushing the fundamental issues of good governance, bread and butter, security, and inclusiveness that Nigeria is grappling with to the back burner. At the centre of the debate is the agitation […]
Mahatma Gandhi was right: “A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.” An incomparable, unfathomable and eternally-compelling package, I dare add. Gandhi’s is one of the most insightful, penetrating and concise commentaries […]
A few days ago, I read about the disbursement of another sum of N2.07 trillion to various levels of government as statutory allocations accruable as revenue for February, 2024. The entitled entities include the federal, state, and local governments. As has become characteristic of the present administration, particularly after the removal of the petroleum subsidy, […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has requested for the reinstatement of the suspended Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi, representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District. Ningi was suspended on the 12th of March, 2024, by the senate for alleging that the 2024 budget was padded with N3 trillion. Falana who is Ningi’s defense counsel accused Akpabio of violating his […]
Sadly most Nigerians will not read or appreciate this contribution because frankly it is beyond them. Worst still many of them, particularly in the younger generation, find it difficult to read more than three lines even though it is to their own shame and detriment. For those that have the gravitas, insight, foresight, profundity and […]
A converged regulator for broadcasting and Telecoms? I have a funny friend who would always see things where they hardly exist or make meaning out of situations that challenge understanding. Years before the Nigerian government would pick Stephen Oronsaye to run a hot knife through the unwieldiness of the Federal Civil Service, my friend would […]
A former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, said on Saturday the 1999 Constitution would not adequately address the country’s economic predicaments and other challenges. Anyaoku stated this in a chat with journalists at his country home in Obosi, Idemili North local government area of Anambra State. He said poverty, insecurity, and dilapidated infrastructure, among […]
1. Hamas attacks Israel in a savage and brutal manner killing thousands of Israeli civilians. 2. Israel declares war on Hamas, flattens and occupies Gaza, and kills thousands of terrorists and innocent Palestinian women and children. 3. Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad fires rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas. 4. Israel launches devastating a counter […]
General Akinrinade reacts to the statement by former President OlusegunObasanjo. The recent statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the recently concluded elections must be condemned in the strongest terms by democracy loving Nigerians and those who care about the unity of this country. His statement coming at a time when the Independent National Electoral […]
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has charged members of the Academics to conduct research to modernise the Culture of African people so as to promote it among the cultures of other people in the world. Oba Ogunwusi made the assertion while speaking at the inauguration of Professor Jeleel Ojuade as the third vice-chancellor […]
You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward. I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you […]
By Ivor Ekpe I Stand FIRMLY with Kadaria Ahmed. Unfortunately there is an error people are making about the BBC kerfuffle and it is borne of both IGNORANCE and clouded DISLIKE for Government and Nigeria. 1. Have you ever seen the BBC show you the Dead as a result of terrorist activities within the UK […]
By Kingsley MoghaluAugust 4, 2023 It’s not often I agree with Nigeria’s Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed. Not because of anything but because I fundamentally disagree with what I consider her fiscal mismanagement of Nigeria. But at least she recently gave an honest assessment of how broke-assed Nigeria is now. As for my dear beloved […]
Petra Akinti Onyegbule. I wish to begin this piece by saying I am not oblivious to the disappointment felt by many supporters and members of the All Progressives Congress based on the performance of the last couple of years from an administration we invested so much in. I am also not so conceited to dismiss […]
by Dele Alake Physically remote but fully involved in the processes leading up to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the APC primaries and also in the power play that led to the emergence of Senator Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, it was with quixotic astonishment and predictable […]
Once upon a time, the state was an “urban jungle.” If you walked around the noise-polluted streets, which were overcrowded with rickety commuter buses, cars, cart pushers and wheel barrows and thronging with screaming street traders, ubiquitous markets stalls around pole-high refuse heaps and putrefying gutter oozes, you might find one or two human corpses decomposing on […]
Across sectors, the tempest in Nigeria had doubled, and in some cases, tripled with the failed regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Sai Baba is not the sui generis of Nigeria’s woes, but he has forced Nigerians to tread more throes. Like Umar R.A would smile and sob anytime he remembered the […]
