•Lagdo dam The floods that periodically sweep across the banks of Rivers Benue and Niger down to the Atlantic Ocean in Bayelsa State emanate from the Lagdo Lake in Northern Cameroon. This occurs seasonally, whenever excess water is released from the lake to protect the dam from bursting, inundating, and overwhelming the surrounding towns and [...
•Tinubu The late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in his bestseller, The People’s Republic, said that “The primary responsibility of leadership is catering for and promoting its people to the end so that they may live a full and happy life.” This means a government should recognise the dignity of its citizens and work tirelessly to […]...
•Azuka Onwuka I was in Primary 4 and about 9 years old when I called my teacher a thief without knowing what I did. One interesting thing about my Primary-4 era, which used to be called Elementary 4, was that it was in that class that my academic transformation started. I first achieved a position […]
•#EndBadGovernance protesters Despite Chatham House, London, being the sole consecrating authority of every Nigerian head of state since 1966, a former British Prime Minister, David Cameron (2010-2016), once said: “If the amount of money stolen from Nigeria in the last 30 years was stolen from the United Kingdom, the UK would cease to exist.” ...
Dark and tall with a beard trimmed to perfection, he was an incredible advertisement for the dark-blue Air Force uniform. Group Captain Nnaemeka Badaru had just retired from the force and itching to leave the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base in Oshodi, Lagos State, for his palatial house in Abuja, where his wife, Alhaja Zainab, […]
•Tinubu Shame on the handlers of this Presidency. Shame on Mr. President. Shame on the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shame on all those who have direct access to Mr. President but cannot tell him the truth. And shame to all those who undermine the extent to which an aggrieved people can go. Unfortunately, President Bola […]
•Tinubu Along with many well-meaning citizens we warned that talking down on the Gen Z organizers of the ongoing protests across Nigeria will do government no good. We warned that spending our collective wealth on Cashtivists who promised to frustrate the protests will boomerang. We warned that paid Dissociaters were only scamming the governme...
•Dr Nnimmo Bassey Our right to safe food is fundamental for our enjoyment of the right to life. All living beings need food for nourishment and for the sustenance of life. Food is so central to our well being that the denial of food even to prisoners is considered an inhuman and degrading treatment. What […]
•Dr Nnimmo Bassey The recent debate and uproar in Nigeria on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have brought to light, the pre-existing loopholes in Nigeria’s Biosafety regulatory architecture. One key issue of concern is the failure of the regulatory agency to make available documents on risk assessment either for peer review or generally ...
•Aliko Dangote and Farouk Ahmed The accusations , counteraccusations and rebuttals in the oil and gas business today began on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. This was during the Afreximbank Annual Meetings and AfriCarribean Trade and Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas. It was there, far away in a foreign land, that Aliko Dangote, the Chief [&he...

