The COVID-19 lockdowns around the world brought about rapid and unprecedented improvements in air quality in some parts of the world but not enough to halt climate change caused by global warming. The shortlived fall in emissions of key air pollutants in 2020, especially in urban areas, was not uniformly spread across all regions, hence, […]
The National Publicity Secretary of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Robinson Ken, in this interview with PAULINE ONYIBE, speaks about the current insecurity and sundry socio-political issues in the polity, including continued degradation of Niger delta Looking at the current oil spill in the Niger Delta particularly as it concerned AITEO will the host communities […]
The battle over which section of the country should produce the next president has continued to fester. But Emmanuel Yawe, the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Northern Nigeria socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), in this interview with BABA NEGEDU says the issue is beyond the purview of Northern Elders Forum, Afenifere and Ohanaeze. […]
• We can’t be humane to society that dehumanises us – Police Officer • ‘Human rights won’t be relevant to policing’ • 99 bodies dumped in various mortuaries by soldiers traced to Tollgate The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other Matters and Lekki Incident […]
• It’s a terrible experience –Victim • ‘I’ve paid back more than twice what I borrow’ • Fintechs’ debt recovery methods, a data-sharing breach –NITDA • We have minimal number of trained, experienced investigators –Police • Calling, sending messages, sharing customers’ data, invasion of privacy –Lawyer With the COVID-19 pandemic, many Nigerians witnessed […]
The impact of climate change on national security, food security and economy came under focus at a recent workshop in Abuja. In this interview, Executive Director, Project Alert, Tijah- Bolton Akpan, tells ONWUKA NZESHI that Nigeria risks a fresh fiscal crisis unless it reviews its response to climate change What should Nigeria be […]
Former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, in this interview with CLEMENT JAMES speaks on the agitations in the country and other issues and the way out of the quagmire You have always said there must be this national conversation or consensus around where we should go as a nation. What do you mean […]
• My only surviving brother is dead –Woman • ‘My husband went to submit quotation for plumbing; I’m a widow now’ • Developers, LASBCA boss should be tried for homicide –Lawyers • This’ a clear case of corruption, cost cutting, sharp practices –NIA boss Barely 21 months after the contractor withdrew its services, the […]
Okupe: APC’ll run into trouble soon Dr Doyin Okupe is a medical doctor and politician. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okupe has served three different presidents and believes he has enough experience to run and change Nigeria for good. In an interview with GEOFFREY EKENNA in Lagos, Okupe speaks on his […]
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland has returned a Benin Bronze head, one of thousands of religious and cultural artefacts looted in ancient Benin kingdom by British forces in 1897. The sculpture, which depicts the head of an Oba (king) and stolen during the destruction of Benin City by the British military expe-dition, was handed […]