Editorial

LAST week, the South-West geopolitical zone’s  response to the persistent orgy of security threats to its peaceful existence in the form of a new security outfit named Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), with the code name Operation…

O N its website, the US Embassy, in a piece of information meant for Americans intending to visit Nigeria, describes the country in very unflattering terms. It harps on two major albatrosses, namely crude infrastructure and poor security.…

T HE exploits of a young Nigerian and computer science graduate, Moyinoluwa Adeyemi, who reportedly built a special android watch that tells time in Yoruba, shows that Nigerian youths can excel given the right climate. Moyinoluwa, a…

ON Thursday, January 9, one of Nigeria’s finest and most iconic literary voices, Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, passed on at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State. To say the least, the loss to the country is…

The statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari to the effect that he would ensure that he would not be  succeeded in 2023 by looters is yet another example of the the persisting mindset of the current president who calls himself a…

The Osun State government recently called on caterers and food vendors in the state to stop the pernicious practice of using paracetamol to tenderise meat and using bleaching detergents for cassava processing, ostensibly to induce whiteness…

IN yet another dastardly event that highlighted the heightening level of barbarity in the country, a certain Segun Olaniyi recently murdered his former lover, Mrs Abosede Iyanda, and sold her body parts for the total sum of N90,000. His…

ON Saturday, January 4, the Kwara State Police Command issued a statement denying that it sent its personnel to supervise the Kwara State government’s demolition of Ile Arugbo (Home of the Aged), the structures on the revoked land reported…

ON December 28, 2019, the Ugwulangwu community in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was thrown into mourning when a herdsman, Laulo Isa, 20, raped a 54-year-old woman, Mrs Mary Okereke, to death, hinging his gruesome action on…

IT is concerning that varsity-trained students and indeed some well-educated youths in the country are going back to primitive recidivism with an equally unsettling tinge of barbarity. It shows that these are scoundrels and not university…