The House of Representatives is currently considering a curious piece of legislation titled: Voluntary Amnesty Bill. The bill is being sponsored by Hon. Linus Okorie, representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State, in the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to protect all persons in possession of ill-gotten or questionable wealth from being prosecuted and […] Read more
Sports administration in Nigeria has no direction and this has been a major problem affecting the growth of various sports in the country. There is no clear cut policy on how the federations are to go about running their programmes and so athletes are the worst hit. We realised that each of the sport federation […] Read more
In a major policy shift, the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board (CDFIPB) last week approved the regularisation of the dichotomy between holders of university degrees and Higher National Diploma (HND) in all the Services. Consequently, the Board after its July 11th meeting chaired by the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), directed […] Read more
Human life seems to have become so worthless in Nigeria that it can be taken at will. In all parts of the country, people are killed almost every second for flimsiest of excuses. Within a couple of days, more than 150 people were killed in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State over land […] Read more
After over one year of internal crisis, peace finally returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week. Nigeria’s highest court, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, affirmed the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee as the authentic leadership of the embattled party, which once was regarded as the largest political party in Africa. […] Read more
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, recently announced that policemen would soon be deployed to their communities of origin to enhance community policing. He told a gathering of traditional rulers, Christian Association of Nigeria, Council of Ulama, transport unions, Police Community Relations Committee members and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, in Lokoja, […] Read more
The recent decision by private investors led by Dangote Group and Flour Mills of Nigeria Limited to fix the dilapidated Apapa Wharf Road is coming to Nigerians, especially users of the road, as a great relief. To describe the situation of the road as an embarrassment and an aberration to the country’s leadership is being […] Read more
That palpable rot, especially as it concerns infrastructural and facility deficiency, cutting across primary, secondary school level and higher institutions of learning in the country, is lamentable is not surprising. The nagging issue is that despite the appalling state of the nation’s schools, there has been absolute little effort on the part of some of […] Read more
T he lingering crisis at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State in the last eight years, which has deferred all possible solutions, is shameful and condemnable. It is also worrisome that all concerned parties in the university crisis, especially the owner-states – Oyo and Ondo – are watching as the 27-year-old […] Read more
In the past two weeks, there have been conscious efforts by Igbo leaders of all standing to stop the impression created by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) that the Igbo do not want to be part of Nigeria again. […] Read more
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