Over 63,000 people dead or missing while migrating over last decade – IOM says
March 27, 2024 At least 63,285 people have perished or disappeared on migration routes around the world between 2014 and 2023, with most deaths caused by drowning, the U.N. migration…
Akpabio’s audacious call for ceasefire in Gaza, by Eseme Eyiboh
President of Nigeria’s Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has in faraway Geneva, Switzerland at the ongoing 148th Session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) took the bull by the horns when…
Gaza-nizing Okuama, By Pius Mordi
The gruesome and mindless killing of 17 servicemen at Okuama has occasioned the reenactment of the traumatic events of some years ago in Zaki Biam and Odi when the…
In defence of the Nigerian economy, by IMPI
We have observed with dismay the seeming congenital amplification of the numbers of companies that had shut down operations in Nigeria or relocated out of the country by corporate sector…
Searching for a Scapegoat: The Campaign Against President Buhari
In recent months, there has been a coordinated campaign to heap Nigeria’s current economic problems on the erstwhile administration of former president Muhammadu Buhari (2015-2023). This is a strategy of…
Gbajabiamila: Using public life for public good, By Aliyu Abubakar
He is currently the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu. He has seen his political life course from the Legislature to the Executive. It’s not clear if Rt. Hon….
Leadership: An Alliance with Time, By Bola Tinubu
The man in whose memory we gather here today serves as a compass for each of us and a guiding light for several generations of leaders. His principles have withstood…
Admiral Madueke: The cat with nine lives is 80 today
An Igbo saying goes like this: If a man’s chi (personal god) is not a party to the scheme, death will not kill him. On the morning of July…
How influx of displaced persons fuels insecurity in northern Kaduna
Feb. 29, 2024 By Mustapha Adamu Yauri In a rented apartment at Layin Zomo area of Sabon Gari Local Government Area (LGA), Kaduna State Malama Maryam Aminu subs as she…
My boss, distinguished Senator Udoma, is 70
By Akpandem James It would be a thing of great surprise for those who have met him physically to imagine that he is already seventy years old. But…