In the past two football seasons, the best Nigerian scorer is Paul Onuachu of Belgian team, KRC Genk. He has registered 22 goals and two assists for his team in the 2020/2021 football season. He has been consistent and on the verge of surpassing his goals tally for last season. We are concerned like many […]
President Muhammadu Buhari last week served Nigerians with another surprise as he forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs to the Senate for confirmation as non-career Ambassadors. The nominees are: Gen Abayomi G. Olonisakin (rtd), ex-Chief of Defence Staff; Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), ex-Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), […]
With the take-off of the much talked about African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, all eyes have been on Nigeria to prove its status as the Giant of Africa. Now engrossed in a trade pact expected to create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc with 1.3 billion people across Africa and constituting the largest […]
The appointment of new service chiefs for the country’s armed forces, last week, as replacements for the old and obviously tired predecessors after several years of prevarications, must engender a reversal of the current embarrassing level of insecurity in all parts of Nigeria. The reason is obvious. The ravaging level of insecurity in this country […]
Nigeria is sitting on the proverbial keg of gunpowder because of the prevalent drug use, particularly among its teeming youths. Though drug abuse is a global phenomenon, the situation in Nigeria has reached a crescendo. Drug use is prevalent and pervasive among students, especially in the tertiary institutions across the country. But it is not […]
Earlier in the New Year, the African Nations Championship for home-based players started in Cameroon and Nigeria was absent from the list of 16 finalists. We recall Nigeria also failed to qualify for the first two editions in 2009 and 2011. Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Mali, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Guinea, Namibia, Niger, Tanzania, […]
The controversy characterising the selection process for the ninth vice-chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU) is, without conjecture, diminishing the integrity of the entire university system and, by extension, academia. Following the tenure expiration of the eighth substantive Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, the university, on January 11, 2021, constituted a Joint Governing Council […]
Since the return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has been grappling with diverse security challenges, chief among them are insurgency, election violence, kidnapping and most recently, the herder-farmer conflicts among others. The north central states of Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa and other states have experienced conflicts that led to thousands of deaths and displacements […]
Barely a week after the hullabaloo and incendiary remarks which trailed the register-or-quit order given by the Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to illegal herdsmen operating in the state’s forest reserves, we find it exciting that a purposeful truce has been reached to stop wanton kidnapping, killing and sundry criminality in the forests. The […]
With the take-off of the much talked about African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, all eyes have been on Nigeria to prove its status as the giant of Africa. Now engrossed in a trade pact expected to create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc with 1.3 billion people across Africa and constituting the largest new […]