Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop, Sokoto Diocese 10th Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Convocation Lecture, 20th March 2020 Pressure from the VC made me hurriedly come up with a title as strange as this! However, it is a title that gives rise to many thoughts, particularly so as we look at our world, and more […]Continue Reading
‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading
Shareholders of Zenith Bank Plc, on Monday, at the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Bank held at the Shehu Musa Yaradua Centre, Abuja unanimously approved the proposed final dividend of N2.50 per share, bringing the total dividend payment for the 2019 financial year to N2.80 per share with a total value of N87.9 billion. […]Continue Reading
By Eric Teniola General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the 7th Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as […]Continue Reading
…says his firms lost N30bn profit to Apapa gridlock Business mogul and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday gave a poignant verdict on efforts by successive governments to transform the nation’s economy, saying that Nigeria’s economy is not working. This is as even as he said Nigeria’s economic diversification programme has been largely sluggish […]Continue Reading
By Aondover Eric Msughter There is no doubt that the media have the capacity and moral obligation to create awareness and educate citizen about the counter and prevent act of terrorism by making them approachable enough so that every citizen can approach them with their suggestions about how to create a terrorism-free world. In reporting […]Continue Reading
… Scores of insurgents killed,19 fighter vehicles seized … ‘Taking the war to fleeing insurgents impressive’ Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even when Continue Reading
By Edwin Madunagu Reflections on the current “insecurity” and “threatening state failure” in Nigeria – and what the Nigerian Left can do – recently led me, in a tortuous manner, back to a formulation on revolutionary intervention which I thought I had transcended long ago. We shall first discuss the formulation and then come to […]Continue Reading
By Kolawole Olaniyan When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But the recent push by many lawmakers from his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to grant themselves immunity […]Continue Reading
On February 27, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of the corona virus in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said in a statement that an Italian citizen who worked in Nigeria returned from Italy on February 25, 2020 and tested positive for the virus. Here are some tips […]Continue Reading
(Excerpts from secrets the Department of State Security shared with only Very Important Persons (VIPs)) The rate of kidnapping has sky-rocketed over the years. The appropriate application of the following security tips would reduce kidnapping to the barest minimum. Self-awareness Recognize your self-worth, assess the threat level of your environment, and perception of Continue Reading
Somalia: There Is No Government Here, By Muno Gedi (A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective (AIPC)) “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows into Somalia from Ethiopia, through the regional capital Beledweyne further into the Hiran region, down to Buluboorde and beyond. Many farmers tend […]Continue Reading