Ethnic profiling is dastardly, condemnable
Ramadan, time for spiritual renewal
Need for INEC to shuffle the RECs
Aviation sector as essential service
Arson attacks on INEC facilities
Dousing ‘emir’ of Aba controversy
Buhari’s proactive transition plan
Sending varsity students home to vote
Bad governments breed unpatriotic citizens
The sanctity of February 25, 2023 election
Issue-based politicking as political culture
Let’s protest only with our votes
Mr. President doing what he thinks is right
Utilizing our acquired endurance in a cashless economy (1)
Trafficking of the new Naira notes
Nigeria’s more than 10m out-of-school children
Understanding CBN’s cashless policy
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SubscribeStudents must vote in the 2023 elections
THE step taken by the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, in passionately appealing to the Federal Government to grant students a two-week break to enable them participate in the 2023 polls, is in the right direction. We, therefore, join NAPTAN to make the same appeal to all concerned authorities. NAPTAN’s appeal was stimulated […]
Beheading of the LG boss in Imo State
LAST Monday, January 23, 2023, came the shocking news of the barbaric beheading of the kidnapped Sole Administrator of Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu. Ohizu was said to have been butchered on Sunday after the N6 million demanded by his abductors as ransom had been paid. The chilling act was […]
Reducing the risks of cancer
IN recent years, there has been increase in cases of cancer worldwide. Hyuna Sung, Rebecca Siegel and Ahmedin Jemal, employed by the American Cancer Society, estimated that worldwide, about 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths occurred in 2020. In Nigeria, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO, more than 100,000 […]
The killing of Rev Father Isaac Achi
ON Sunday, January 15, 2023, at about 3 am, armed Islamic terrorists in a renewed attack on Christians, invaded the Parish residence of Reverend Father Isaac Achi of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, along Daza Road, Kafin-Koro, Paikoro Local Government Area, LGA, of Niger State. The killers set Rev. Achi’s house ablaze, burning him […]
Nigeria at critical juncture
Over the years, several conditions such as incompetent leadership, official insincerity, economic failure, police brutality, corruption, youth unemployment, strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; herdsmen attacks, banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram terrorism and many other horrible conditions, have coalesced into a national anger to bring Nigeria to a critical juncture. As Daron Acemoglu […]
Energy transition and Nigeria’s economy
WITH a combination of technology and environmental-friendly behaviours, humanity will overcome the climate change crisis. There are lots of hope. The key to solution lies in clean and renewable energy. Our actions should not be based on the opinions of profit-driven businessmen who dubiously employ and compromise dishonest scientists to cast aspersion on electric vehicles, […]
Curbing medical tourism in Nigeria
THE Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, at the end of its 206th National Executive Council meeting last weekend in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, bemoaned the toll which excessive medical tourism by Nigerians, especially the political class, has over the decades, taken on the country’s health sector and economy generally. AMLSN lamented that […]
FG and monopoly of legitimate violence
MANY years ago, a legal luminary said that after God, the next most powerful entity in the world is government. This power, derived from the people, flows from government’s exercise of monopoly of legitimate violence. With this fantastic power and right the men who act on its behalf have to openly wield military-grade weapons, even […]
INEC should rein in its staff (2)
LATE arrival to collection centres and early departure of INEC officials is one of the identified causes of the frustrations Nigerians are facing in collecting their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs. Swelling of crowds at some centres caused by delays in identification of owners of the PVCs is another major problem. In sensitive transactions as obtains […]
INEC should rein in its staff (1)
What initially appeared as mere allegation may have started taking a semblance of truth as indications continue to unfold that some staff of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, are actually working hand in glove with some politicians to rig the 2023 general elections. Since the Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, collection exercise began on January 6, […]
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