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The new privacy policy of popular messaging app, WhatsApp, has continued to generate debate among competitors, users, and governments. While WhatsApp owners have made it clear that the policy has nothing to do with breaching any contractual or privacy agreement between WhatsApp and its users, the Nigerian government is really doubting its sincerity of purpose….
As Leah Sharibu, one of the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists turned 18 on 14 May 2021, the human rights community and many Christian institutions marked the day with sad reflections. Her condition has remained a huge source of concern to many Nigerians and the international community as well. It was on…
If anyone guessed that the current COVID-19 pandemic will have a long drawn impact on illegal migration to Europe, one will be dead wrong. A BBC News report on 12 May 2021 put the number of migrants that landed at the Island of Lampedusa, in the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, this year at 13,000. The…
It was quite cheering when information from the National Bureau of Statistics last week revealed that Nigeria’s inflation rate reduced by 0.05 per cent in April compared to what obtained in March. The bureau said while inflation rate stood at 18.17 per cent in March, it reduced to 18.12 per cent in April. It might…
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was recently sworn in for his sixth term in office after a very controversial election. Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was in attendance as the representative of the country’s government. What actually generated so much interest was the fact that the 76-year-old Museveni has been in power since 1986. This…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on 13 May 2021 lampooned the removal of History as a subject from the country’s educational curriculum. The governor known for his controversial stance on issues spoke in Makurdi at “Media Week and Communications Day 2021”. He threatened that the Benue State government would set up laws to restore…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on 16 May 2021 plunged Kaduna State into total darkness as workers protest the current hardliner posture of the state government on labour issues. Schools, banks, and other critical institutions in the state were directed to shut down. Air and rail transport services were also suspended. Over 15 different unions…
The kind of relationship that existed between the Federal Government under Muhammadu Buhari and Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka in the last six years could best be described as a sizzling romance between the cassock and the soapbox. Interestingly, the romance went sour a few months ago. Recently, Garba Shehu, the spokesman of the president, issued…
What is security in Nigeria under democratic governance in the last twenty years? What is Nigeria’s security problem? Has there ever been and is there anything called Nigeria’s security problem? Has there been a security philosophy ever in the country? Has there ever been a conscious attempt to teach Nigerians this security philosophy assuming one…
President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan has given his thoughts on the just concluded Southern Governors Summit. While berating the call for restructuring by southern governors in an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja, on 13 May 2021, the senate president asked the southern governors to lead by example. He is demanding that the…
