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In the middle of the highly revered Islamic season of Ramadan, Nigeria has had one of her saddest weeks. From Anambra to Kaduna, Yobe, Niger, including Lagos State, critical insecurity issues are steadily recorded and reported almost on daily basis. Virtually every two or three hours, one would receive breaking news of various disturbing reports…
The current spate of banditry, kidnapping, as well as the constant attack on security personnel and facilities, has raised the country’s insecurity challenges to a crescendo. Although one must not fail to admit that issues like banditry and kidnapping are one thing, while Boko Haram is another thing, the purported inability to defeat the insurgents…
The recent online video showing five secondary school girls from Lagos gleefully smoking certain narcotic substances called “Shisha” could be wrongly interpreted by many young people as the human imperative for freedom, exploration, and sometimes, youthful exuberance. Young people are said to learn such behaviour deficits from peer groups and what they see in the…
25 April is the day set aside by the United Nations as World Malaria Day. In 2021, Africa is still grieving over the 384,000 preventable malaria deaths that happened on the continent in 2020. The statistics for 2021 will be released next year as compilation is ongoing. But even in the midst of these tears,…
Mr. Garba Ahmadu is the Commander, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in charge of Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA). In this interview with Godwin Anyebe, he reels out several arrests made at the airport in the past three months, how the judiciary handles drug suspects, and how they are tackling new mode of concealment…
Political parties have been growing exponentially since the inception of democratic governance in Nigeria. But stakeholders in almost all the parties appear to be focused on making the party an instrument for their ascendance to power by all means rather than a tool for good governance. It is against this backdrop that Kano State Governor,…
With President Muhammadu Buhari serving out his second term in 2023, one has seen a cacophony of opinions on the yardstick that should be used in picking his successor. While some are clamouring for zoning, others want a religious balance that would ensure a Christian succeeding a Muslim. A good number of people are also…
The magnitude of Nigeria’s security problems seems to have exceeded the coping capacity of the conventional security outfits in Nigeria combined. Only few states have minimal security challenges. From Imo State where separatist are on a rampage, to Kaduna and Benue where university students were kidnapped right in their hostels, the news sends panic into…
A Party is poised to overtake others in the country’s political space as young people endorse the Africa Democratic Congress as their party for a new Nigeria project. The party, based on inclusion, diversity principles, transparency and transformational leadership, posit that it now has what it takes to bring Nigeria out of the doldrums. According…
Cuba marked the end of an era with the official transfer of power from the Castro family to the communist country’s first civilian leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel. On 16 April 2021, Raul Castro (younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro) relinquished his position as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. The formalities…
