November 23, 2024 0 Comments

Without being immodest, I will begin by saying that it is appropriate that I was invited to deliver the keynote address at a gathering in honour of the late Professor Chinua Achebe. Not

November 23, 2024 0 Comments

Written By Collins Olayinka, Abuja Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit is likely to widen to $878 billion in the next 26 years, a report by Agustos and Co. has said. The report, ‘2024 Infrastructure Industry

November 16, 2024 0 Comments

Human rights violations have seen a sharp increase amid the country’s worsening economic situation, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) reported on Thursday. The commission recorded 427,606 human rights complaints in October, marking

November 14, 2024 0 Comments

Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on Wednesday, warned that if Nigeria refused to do away with the 1999 Constitution, it would be hard for anyone to fix the country. He described Nigeria

November 11, 2024 0 Comments

[ad_1] Amid the spilling of raw emotions over Boko Haram’s shocking kidnapping of 214 Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State, north-east Nigeria, in April 2014, the Nigerian government awarded contracts worth millions of dollars

November 8, 2024 0 Comments

Written by Jibrin Ibrahim   The recent case of the arraignment of dozens of children in court for their alleged participation in the End Bad Governance Protests is a clear indication of the

October 28, 2024 0 Comments

…Faith, without good works, is dead Dear General Yakubu Gowon. You spoke to the Daily Trust on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The rare interview, conducted by Andrew Agbese and Isiaka Wakili, marked your

October 21, 2024 0 Comments

[ad_1] On 4 April, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title “The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’” It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk

October 21, 2024 0 Comments

  …none of the states is performing well in terms of employment, industrialisation, education, healthcare, and other socio-economic indicators, primarily due to public sector corruption. The recent Transparency and Integrity Index (TII) highlights

September 12, 2024 0 Comments

THE purchase of another presidential jet by the Bola Tinubu administration underlines the disdain with which the country’s rulers hold the citizens. That the President finds it convenient to indulge in luxurious ostentation