Opinions

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commemorated the second anniversary of the abduction of Leah Sharibu, the remaining Dapchi schoolgirl in captivity, with a vow to ensure her release. It is incredible to note that she is still in captivity. Sharibu was one of the 110 schoolgirls, aged between 11 and 19 years, kidnapped by Boko Haram […]

The latest report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that over 100,000 Nigerian children less than five years of age die each year due to cholera and other water-borne diseases is scandalous and unacceptable; and a very sad reminder of the endemic poverty of most Nigerians coupled with poor sanitary condition across the country. […]

The recent decision by United States President, Donald J Trump, adding Nigeria and five other countries to the list of nations facing stringent travel restrictions, virtually blocking immigration from Africa’s most populous nation, is discriminatory, humiliating and on the surface should be seen as a grand design to continuously subject Nigerians to repeated abuse. President […]

The story of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), like some other agencies in Nigeria is long. It is one of failure, of disappointments, and a callous disregard for the hopes and aspirations of the people. It is a story of contracts awarded for infrastructure projects, monies collected and no projects executed. It is the […]

Perhaps, President Muhammadu Buhari’s message of hope at the dawn of the New Year is all that Nigerians needed to forget the shattered hopes, broken promises, disappointments and regrets of 2019. Coming from a year that was largely burdened by policy somersaults, high unemployment, inflation, increasing debt profile, unabated insecurity and general political toxicity, Buhari’s […]

The birth of Jesus Christ, which was celebrated on Wednesday, December 25, is the portentous event of the Incarnation, from which Christianity draws its essence. Christians the world over, marked the birth of the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose spectacular life of virtue, revolutionary teaching and sacrificial death on the Cross […]

Nothing underscores more the culture of greed, insensitivity and impunity that has crept into the public service of Nigeria than the scenario of multiple remuneration and pension schemes for serving public officers who previously served and pensioned in other capacities. This obnoxious practice involves high office holders such as cabinet ministers, governors, senators, and top […]

What is now clear in words and in deed is that Nigerians are amongst the most lawless people on earth and the Buhari administration may just have set the tone for executive lawlessness with the assault against the judiciary arm of government after last Friday’s unprecedented invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by […]

Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi experienced a dose of the peoples’ anger in faraway Madrid Spain, where he was attacked by some Nigerians as he took part in the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP25. Although Amaechi was lucky to have been rescued by Spanish police officers who whisked him off the venue to […]

The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to the movement of goods and persons, since October 2019, has understandably been generating intense debates among Nigerians and others, especially the countries affected by the border closures. Nigeria shares land boundaries with Benin, Niger and Cameroun. The government had initially imposed a partial closure of the borders in […]

Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, and by extension lawmakers across the country, have been under scrutiny lately with regard to their engagements with citizen-voters whose interest they are expected to represent in parliament. Two issues: constituency projects and constituency offices. President Muhammadu Buhari brought the issue of constituency projects to public attention when at […]

Nigeria signed the Extradition Treaty with the United State in December 22, 1931 and entered into force in June 24, 1935. There is no public record showing the extradition of US citizens to Nigeria since the treaty became effective in 1935.The actual treaty was between the UK and the US. Automatically, Nigeria was bound by […]