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The Blunder in Not Having State Police

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 15, 2022 158 0

By Eric Teniola The non inclusion of State Police in the Constitution was an error. It was a grave omission. The lapse occurred in 1976, forty-six years ago. No one could have imagined forty-six years ago that our security challenges would become so grave to this level, that we now live in perpetual fear at […]Continue Reading

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A trap for The Priest

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 12, 2022 165 0

By Tony Adibe The drama entitled “The Priest” is set in the rural community called Ekwereazu apparently in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State which prides itself as the Eastern Heartland. The period of the play is perhaps the time in history when so much ignorance and lack of awareness dominated society especially […]Continue Reading

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When Supreme Court Justices turn whistleblowers

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 12, 2022 142 0

By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem  On Thursday, July 14, 2022, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration with Yar’Adua Foundation will launch the Corruption Anonymous (CORA) whistleblowing platform at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The CORA platform is a secure civil society driven public whistleblowing tool through which Continue Reading

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‘Why Chibok Schoolgirls were abducted’- by former Borno State Governor Shettima

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 10, 2022 179 0

(This is an excerpt of an interview Governor Shettima granted Theophilus Abbah and published in Daily Trust on Sunday in May 2014) It’s about two weeks since Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram. Is there any good news for their parents? ‎That incident is one nightmare that troubles me so much as a father […]Continue Reading

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7 Lessons from Algeria in Fight against Bandits and Terrorists

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 9, 2022 199 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The 1990s was aptly tagged the ‘Black Decade’ in Algeria. It was not just black, it was deadly and pernicious. It was a decade of fire and brimstone when terrorists’ fire engulfed the country from Algiers, its capital city, to rural and isolated communities. Riding on the wings of warped Islamic […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s subsidy rising but not easing hardship

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 4, 2022 186 2

How to abolish fuel subsidy without causing much pain By Daniel Adaji Since February 2022 Nigerians in the federal capital Abuja and some states have been enduring petrol scarcity, with regular long queues at petrol stations. The queues have continued despite the budgetary allocation of N4 trillion for fuel subsidy in 2022, which has provoked […]Continue Reading

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Defying Boko Haram For 13 Years Makes Northeast Hero of 23-Year Democracy

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 12, 2022 181 0

Below is the full text of Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum’s speech to commemorate Nigeria’s 23rd Democracy Day: By Professor Babagana Zulum 1. It is now 23 uninterrupted years since Nigeria returned to democratic rule back in 1999. In those 23 years, societies across the country have witnessed different levels of progress and challenges. […]Continue Reading

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Climate change puts rice production at risk in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 7, 2022 220 0

By Daniel Adaji In September 2020, a devastating flood that swept through Kebbi State, renowned for rice production, left hundreds of farmers in tears. The flood washed away rice farms in 11 local government areas of Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, Bunza, Suru, Koko-Besse, Yauri, Shanga, Bagudo, Maiyama, Jega, and Dandi. In a special report on the […]Continue Reading

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Sustainable lifestyle; panacea for looming food, energy crises

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 30, 2022 215 0

…as Rev Martins warns of environmental pollution consequences  A case has been made for a sustainable lifestyle to stem the looming food and energy crises that may arise from the current climate change occasioned by environmental pollution and general mismanagement. This is the submission at a one-day conference in Lagos on the Preservation of the […]Continue Reading

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Russia invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 27, 2022 216 0

By Theophilus Abbah & Daniel Adaji In December 2021, the price of family size Grand loaf, one of the popular bread in Abuja, Nigeria, was N600 ($1.43). As of April 2022, the price jumped to N850 ($2.02), an increase of about 41 per cent. The reason for this rise is not related to domestic economic […]Continue Reading

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The Blood of Deborah Samuel Yakubu

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 17, 2022 198 0

Theophilus Abbah Her name, Deborah Samuel Yakubu Garba, exposes Nigeria’s inevitable culture mix that finds Christianity robustly rubbing shoulders with Islam deep and intertwined into the faint past that cannot be figured out by the best historical microscope. A combination of Deborah Samuel Yakubu presupposes that the young lady had Moslem in her ancestry, and […]Continue Reading

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The Fallacy of fighting for God

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 14, 2022 150 0

By Ben Osawe Nigeria is a very religious nation where citizens are so ‘committed’ to God that they are eager and quick to kill in his name and for him, as we saw on Thursday 12th May 2022 with the gruesome, heartless mob killing of Deborah Emmanuel a student of the Shehu Shagari College of […]Continue Reading