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Time to adopt fresh approach to tackling insecurity

Time to adopt fresh approach to tackling insecurity

Nigeria cannot go on like this for another few years, not to talk of two more decades. The consequences would be too dire for the country. The President must act as the Commander-in-Chief of the…

Time to stop the IPOB mess in the S’East

Time to stop the IPOB mess in the S’East

For some months now, tension has heightened in the South-East and parts of the South-South geopolitical zones. The tension is owing to the activities of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its security…

Government’s unfolding resentment towards the media

Government’s unfolding resentment towards the media

The Muhammadu Buhari administration swept to power in 2015 on the back of a media blitz against the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   The Goodluck Jonathan administration was harassed, harangued and chased away…

Taking positives from Team Nigeria’s Tokyo 2020 outing

Taking positives from Team Nigeria’s Tokyo 2020 outing

The Olympic Games have come and gone and an evaluation of Team Nigeria’s journey in Tokyo shows that sheer determination and hard work earned two athletes and the country two medals while hard luck, poor…

FG needs to prevent another ASUU-SSANU strike

FG needs to prevent another ASUU-SSANU strike

Although it is good news that the Federal Government is dialoguing with the members of the university community in a bid to ward off another round of strike in the Ivory Towers, however, the fact…

NBC’s encroachment on free speech

NBC’s encroachment on free speech

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) recently issued a circular addressed to all broadcast stations, on the need to handle their Newspaper Reviews and Current Affairs Programmes with caution. The regulator of the broadcast industry observed…

Insecurity: Time to step up action

Insecurity: Time to step up action

Nigeria is at a crossroads, delicately on tenterhooks, as non-state actors spread fear, violence and terror across the land of over 205 million people of diverse tongues, cultures, religions and worldview. Emboldened by official silence,…

Tokyo 2020: Dramatic Team Nigeria’s camp and the poor run

Tokyo 2020: Dramatic Team Nigeria’s camp and the poor run

The drama in the camp of Team Nigeria at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the past few days has been so overwhelming such that the administrators are battling to save the image of…

We need more of such Daura insights from our President

We need more of such Daura insights from our President

On Friday, July 23, this year, President Muhammadu Buhari paid a courtesy call on the Emir of his hometown, Daura, Kastina State, Dr Umar Faruk Umar in his palace.   Speaking on the occasion, President…

Stepping up the drug war

Stepping up the drug war

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…