Ethnic profiling is dastardly, condemnable
Ramadan, time for spiritual renewal
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
Students must vote in the 2023 elections
Beheading of the LG boss in Imo State
Reducing the risks of cancer
The killing of Rev Father Isaac Achi
Nigeria at critical juncture
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SubscribeEnergy 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, […]
Armed Forces Remembrance Day and the 2023 elections
WHEN patterns and pictures that preceded a monumental calamity begin to reappear on stage in the current affairs of a society, it is a signal for discerning members of that society to spring into action to avert a repeat of bitter history. As Nigeria observes the Armed Forces Remembrance Day on Sunday, let us also […]
Kudos on the Mental Health Act 2021
THE Mental Health Act of 2021, which replaces the Lunacy Act of 1958, has been applauded by psychiatrists for quite a number of reasons. First, the Lunacy Act was cruel and outdated. Unlike the old law, the Mental Health Act of 2021 guarantees the rights of those with mental health conditions. For instance, any person […]
The danger in burning used tyres for wires
THICK black smoke billowing into the sky at night is a common sight in Nigerian cities, especially in Lagos. One may be forgiven to think it may be a house, a vehicle, or a landfill on fire, if one has never had the opportunity to get nearer one of the sources of the smoke to […]
Power truly belongs to the people (2)
THE appeal to Muhammadu Buhari, the President and Commander-in-Chief to play his constitutional role by forthrightly leading the armed forces to provide adequate security for the electorate in the 2023 elections is indeed only a mark of respect. In a civilised society, the President has no choice but to perform his constitutional duties. After all, […]
Power truly belongs to the people (1)
ON the first day of January 2023, Mike Igini, a past Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Akwa Ibom State used the occasion of the New Year to pass some profound messages to Nigerians which are worth reflecting deeply upon. “The future direction of Nigeria is up to the people…The 2022 […]
Police must find killers of the Fatinoyes
WHILE Nigerians are still mourning the gruesome murder of Bolanle Raheem by a police officer on Christmas Day, December 25, 2022, some evil-minded people in our midst who believe our lives are in their hands struck again in the early hours of New Year Day, January 1, 2023. They trailed Mr. Kehinde Fatinoye, a former […]
Need for mandatory psychological assessment for policemen
FOLLOWING the continued killing of innocent Nigerians by police officers, we believe it has become necessary to enforce the already existing mandatory psychological assessment for policemen. Section 3 (D) of Force Order 237 of the Nigeria Police Force Continuum Matrix, FCM, prohibits police officers from pointing firearms at citizens. Yet, the ugly incidents of killing […]
Cashless policy and need to track internet fraudsters
THE cashless policy introduced in by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is without doubt a step in the right direction given that it is aimed at scaling up financial inclusion and reducing cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism financing, advance fee fraud, graft, ransom payment, extortion, and other crimes. Facilitating this laudable policy are […]
Getting our politics right in 2023
THE lives of people in every society are considerably shaped by the politics that obtains there, and the politics of every society is shaped by the characters of men and women the people elect to rule over them. The above is true because the economy, social life, education, healthcare and other aspects of every society […]
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