If I had a chance in my youthful days, I would have enlisted into one arm of the Nigerian Armed Forces. But I was frustrated, as several attempts I made for admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna...
The speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, during an interactive session/technical roundtable on the NGO regulatory bill has accused civil society organisations of abusing the mandate of their establishments. He said that they are using their...
The National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) held a one-day stakeholders meeting on the Successful Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Transcorp Hilton hotel Abuja on the 27th July 2017 with a vision to have a Nigeria free of corruption...
I bought two products  of the Coca Cola conglomerate three days ago. They are bottles of  Fanta and Sprite. I looked for a warning on them which should read  that the drinks are poisonous when taken  with Vitamin C. This would be  in accordance...
There is a deadly struggle in Venezuela. The government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition have removed the gloves of democracy and are exchanging the bare knuckles of anarchism.  Matters got to a head when  this week, July 30,   over eight million...
Nigeria became an internationally recognised independent nation in 1960 and  has since then had series of constitutions in the past which include the Colonial era constitutions (1914-1960), Independence Constitution (1960), Republican Constitution (1963), Second Republic constitution  Constitution (1979- 1983),...
Even as you read this, elders, leaders of thought and moderates in Igboland have continued to distance themselves from the separatist agitations in the south east. The increasing awareness of the damage wreaked on the nation's economy by the...
When news broke that the modest Gwarimpa Abuja home of former president Goodluck Jonathan was burgled, some mischievous elements, instead of sympathizing with the former president and call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the burglars, chose to...
Nigeria has experienced a considerable increase in natural resource conflicts since the early 1990s. The increasing clashes between farmers and pastoralists have recently become worrisome, especially in wetland areas of the Middle Belt, North Central Nigeria. As expected, most...
It was no small relief for many Nigerians across the country in the past couple of weeks over the health situation of our beloved leader President Muhammadu Buhari. Many well- meaning Nigerians have been on edge and have been...