by Dr. Chuks Osuji, OON One of the greatest news which has been trending on the pages of newspapers, radio stations and the social media in the last 48hrs is the news about the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the acclaimed leader of Indegenous
By Hakeem Bello Twelve years ago, in his Year 2010 budget presentation to the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, as Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, had said, in part, “…while a lot of work has been
By Bisi Olawunmi Abidjan, the main city of Ivory Coast, officially known as Cote D’Ivoire, was agog in celebration on Thursday, 17 June, 2021 when former President Laurent Gbagbo made a triumphant return to the country. He had been discharged and acquitted at
By Segun Ayobolu IN incisive and pungent critiques of the ongoing consideration in the National Assembly of Executive Bills seeking to amend the Nigerian Press Council Act and the National Broadcasting Commission Act, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Newspapers Proprietors Association of
UnderTow Even as Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, continues to study the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court’s interim injunction against Nigeria prosecuting those allegedly contravening the suspension of Twitter, paths continue to cross as the mainstream media
Mister President, I listened very closely to your last interview, and would respectfully like to respond to the parts that stung me the most. You are famous for saying a lot with a little. And, in that interview, you did not disappoint. It
By Femi Orebe “Two Southwest governors came to me to say cattle breeders are destroying farms in their states. I asked them what happened to the grassroots security panels from traditional rulers to Local Governments who meet regularly to identify the root of
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY ON 12TH JUNE, 2021 Fellow Nigerians, I join you all today to commemorate and
By: Ethelbert Okere There are two glaring inadequacies in the narrative on the current spate of insecurity in the Southeast. One is the penchant of some political elements in Imo state, with the seemingly inadvertent collaboration of some operatives in the national media,
By Farooq Kperogi You can ban Twitter, or even the Internet, but you can’t ban the righteous emotions that injustice animates. Or the rage and angst that people ventilate on social media as a consequence of injustice. Only justice, equity, tact, respect, good
No fewer than 16 persons were feared dead and 20 others injured when a commercial
DAILY BREAD – DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN EASTERN NIGERIA UNION CONFERENCE CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES Friday, April 19,
Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday issued a warrant
Real Madrid weathered the storm, silenced the crowd and ultimately ended Manchester City’s brief hold on