Corruption: A vote for capital punishment
CORRUPTION in Nigeria has assumed a frightening proportion. It is no longer about who is corrupt in the country, it…
Let’s take another look at our education system
THINGS are on a seemingly inexorable slide in the country because of our penchant for failing to nip the potential…
Madmen and their rulers
According to a consultant psychiatrist at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, Dr Michael Agbir, there has been a…
Rising poverty: Time for strategy review
LAST Wednesday, the world marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with different countries highlighting their achievements in…
13.2 million Nigerian kids out of school?
THE news of Nigeria having the highest number of out-of-school children in the world is as galling as it is…
Fools still die in Nigeria
IT was a week of primary elections, but it was also, unfortunately, a week of violence and deaths. Except for…
Buhari: Choosing between the elite and the masses
NOTHING points to the seeming failure of our country more than the calamity that befalls young Nigerians trying to avoid…
Okorocha’s lamentation and pains of planlessness
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State slid into jeremiad lamentation last Monday while swearing in the new Secretary to the…
Babangida: Eternal regrets of a General
GENERAL Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida comes across as a man grounded in history. His rule over the country was underpinned…
Restructuring: This is our chance
BEFORE the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on…
The Nigeria narrative: Omelet without eggs
WHILE speaking at an emergency internal security summit in Abuja recently, Minister of Interior, Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (retired), reiterated…
Poverty as the rich’s weapon for cornering power
MEMBERS of the ruling class have been going about the preparation for 2019 elections as if the views and feelings…
Tears for my fatherland
A casual conversation with a civil servant acquaintance this past week brought home the grim and gloomy reality of the…
Portrait of the Nigerian politician
The average Nigerian politician cuts an interesting picture. First, he sounds religious and regularly brings up the name of God…
Weak leaders can’t build strong institutions
The defection of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party…
Allaying fears over state police
WITH the bill seeking an amendment to the Nigerian Constitution with a view to accommodating state and community policing passing…
Making way for rogues, robbers to take over governance
THE Ekiti State governorship election that held penultimate Saturday was not just a national disaster; it was also an international…
Adeosun’s NYSC certificate saga: Questions to solve the riddle
While the issue of the originality of Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s NYSC exemption certificate rages on, the critical stakeholders of the…
Impoverishing citizens as state policy
MEMBERS of Nigeria’s ruling class have just one plan for the masses, which is to keep them perpetually poor so…
Did President Buhari really call for prayers?
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s statement when he paid a condolence visit to Plateau State following herders’ attacks which left between 85…
