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By Sakirudeen Bashiru The chieftaincy institution is one, which structures and regulates the activity of local chieftains (or monarchs) in the society, state or nation, hence, the Nigerian Chieftaincy System is native to Nigeria entailing everything from the country’s monarchs to its titled family elders. Notably, the chieftaincy structure as a whole is one of ...
By Gboyega Akosile I have read a lot reactions and media reports on the engagement between the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the residents/property owners in Magodo Phase II Estate and a certain Chief Superintendent of Police, who was sent from Abuja to lead the supposed execution/enforcement of the Supreme Court Judgment on the ...
By IKE CHIOKE On November 6, 2021, the people of Anambra State set high standards for their neighbours in the South East region of Nigeria and beyond when they voted a professor of Economics, former governor of the Central Band of Nigeria and one of Africa’s leading critical thinkers, Chukwuma Soludo, into office as their ...
By Dr Ezrel Tabiowo When the Ninth Assembly was inaugurated on June 11, 2019, it came prepared to deliver on its mandate, which in clear terms was to ensure “a National Assembly that works for Nigerians,” following Senator Ahmad Lawan’s emergence as President of the Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly. The upper chamber, ...
By Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo Before he ventured to contest the Senate Presidency, Senator Ahmad Lawan, had a clear-cut vision in his legislative agenda which some at the time considered a rather tall order. One of the most ambitious of them was his bid to restore the nation’s deformed budget cycle to the January to December ...
When President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015, one of his cardinal focus was the fight against corruption, because of his belief that “if we do not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.” The fear of corruption became so palpable that the “body language” of the president assumed a warning signal. Apart from ...
Established by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 9, 2020, the Presidential Task Force (PTF), which later metamorphosed into the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, was mandated to provide overall policy direction, guidance and continuous support to the National Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). It also provided such direction to ...
By Garba Shehu The purpose of the President’s trip to Turkey, December 16th to 19th was to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, with an appealing theme: “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity.” Our national strategy was laid out before departure, based on a strong optimism that the summit will work well for all ...
The former Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019, Mr Peter Obi, says his financial support to schools and health institutions has no political undertone. Obi said thiis when he visited Madonna Catholic Hospital, Umuahia, where he donated N1.5 million to support the facility. He said the gesture was borne out of ...
By Femi Adesina When he popped out of his mother’s womb 79 years ago in rustic Daura, now in Katsina State, nobody could have predicted that he would bestride the country, nay the world, like a colossus. Who could have predicted that a honest man, Mai Gaskiya, had come forth? Who could have foretold that ...
The Federal Government inaugurated a 14-member National Taskforce Committee to draft a framework that would guide mining activities in the country. The committee is chaired by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno. Part of the committee’s terms of reference is the development of a framework for vetting of prospective miners who would undertake mining ...
By Dakuku Peterside Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the future belongs to young people with education and the imagination to create. None of them could foresee that drug could ambush the youth and threaten the future. This reality ...
Some parents are in the habit of not teaching their children the proper names of penis, vagina and breasts. Instead of penis, they teach their children to say ‘pee pee,’ ‘tom tom,’ ‘jolo jolo,’ ruler, among others. Instead of vagina, some parents will teach their children to say ‘bom bom’ ‘aso rock,’ ‘T-junction,’ pawpaw,’ among others. These funny names ...
The peaceful conduct of the Nov. 6, Anambra governorship election has proved that democracy has come to stay in the country. Prior to the election, there were threats by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that the election would not hold. There were also attacks on offices and equipment of the Independent National Electoral ...
By Erasmus Ikhide In strategic scientific study of crime, it’s well noted that enormous variety among criminals and criminal acts in complex societies such as Nigeria must be pigeonholed holed into the typology of crime to achieve solutions to the casualties of human dysfunctionalities. It will be helpful to know that about one-third of all ...
Unarguably, agricultural technology transfer plays major role in transforming agricultural production. It facilitates the movement of skills essential for improving farm production. George Mgendi, Mao Shipping and Cheng Xiang, authors of “A Review of Agricultural Technology Transfer in Africa: Lessons from Japan and China Case Projects in Tanzania and Kenya,” were emphatic about the importance ...
By Muhammadu Buhari It is possible that the first contact was made in 1601 between the French and the peoples of “Guinee” – the name for the lands we know today as Nigeria. Only a few years before, the then Protestant King of France Henry had devised a plan for adventurer Francois Pyrard de Laval ...
There’s a grown fears and threats of Social disturbances everywhere in our nation ranging from banditry, terrorism, self-determination, self-actualisation,et.al. but at that Osun State is absolutely peaceful due to the capable economic and social management. In recent time, the emergence of a splinter group, TOP, from the fold of the ruling party, APC, seems harmless ...
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The PDP Zoning Committee under the leadership of Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has said that 2023 presidential contest under the party is open to any of the six geo-political zones but the seat of the national Chairman of the party and other offices previously hold by the south would automatically return ...
President Muhammad Buhari in his inaugural address in 2019 for a second term in office, promised to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. To achieve this, Buhari created the Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs (MSDIA). The ministry has the mandate to develop and implement policies, programmes and projects for the ...
By Dakuku Peterside In recent times, we have been bombarded with news of insecurity, corruption, and secession agitations in Nigeria that we have become so used to them. News and images of kidnapping, ethnic killings, and mayhem, like horror movies, litter our media space, which have almost become an acceptable reality of life. The problems ...
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D There are strong indications that the National Water Resources Bill 2020 will soon be reintroduced at the National Assembly. If passed into law, communities and people living along water fronts in the country, particularly Niger Delta Region, Lagos State and other aquatic areas in the country will be deprived of their ...
By Issa Ibrahim The coast may not yet be clear, but the stage is gradually taking shape for the race to Aso Rock Villa in 2023 and the push for a Nigerian President of South East extraction is gathering speedy momentum. The 2023 presidential poll is just over 20 months away but there are already ...
COVID-19 vaccination has already started to generate heated arguments following a hint that the Federal Government could start sanctioning anybody who refuses to be vaccinated. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), disclosed this at a recent press conference in Abuja. He, however, said that implementation was dependent on availability of ...
Observers note that kidnappings and abductions of pupils and students in various schools, especially in some parts of the north, have amplified the roles of gender discrimination, disasters, conflict, poverty, language barrier, child labour and forced marriage in forcing more children out of school. They note that no fewer than 1,000 children have been kidnapped in ...
