Op.Ed pieces and columnists
Again, the National Assembly has commenced fresh efforts at tinkering with the 1999 Constitution. UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis identifies the problem areas that could hamper the process The echoes of the just concluded constitutional retreat o...
Retired Police Commissioner and former boss of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Fulani Kwajafa recently fielded questions from the duo of MUSA AHMED TIJJANI and SHUAIB SHUAIB. He shared insights on state police agitation, Nigeria’...
Governor Rochas Okorocha, remains defiant despite an order of the Appeal Court to reinstate sacked council chairmen in Imo state, and his position may hinge on the fear that the chairmen would insist on full payment of their monthly statuto...
Barely six years after the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) banned the operation of Motor-cyclists in the city centre, CHIKA OKEKE reports that the operators have fully returned to the city centres irrespective of the penalty awaiting de...
Hon. Umar Bature is the member representing Sokoto North/South Federal Constituency of Sokoto State in the House of Representatives, and in this interview with Ruth Choji, the Chairman, House Committee on Interior, states that Nigeria needs a new...
Chief Chika Okpala became a household name as ‘Chief Zebrudaya’ when he produced and acted the lead role in one of Nigeria’s longest running comedy programmes on television, ‘The Masqurades’. He speaks with CHIKA OTUCHIKER...
We have consistently maintained that our mission is sustainable values of Sokoto State in good governance. As media practitioners our professional responsibility is dissemination of information with incontrovertible facts obtained from authentic ...
Barely two years after a major demolition exercise that hit the slums dotting the landscape of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), more residents are now at their wits end as more 19 communities have been penciled down for demolition by the Developmen...
Wild jubilation greeted the Wednesday’s announcement by the federal government ending the six months old state of emergency in Suleja, but residents woke up the following morning to still see soldiers on the streets. Though the soldiers claimed t...
In this interview with Paul Dada, the General Manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, speaks on the activities of his agency and the ordeal his men faced trying to save the lives of victims of the re...
Hon. Simon Mwadkwon is the member representing Riyom/BarkinLadi Federal Constituency of Plateau State who escaped death recently during the mass burial of victims when attackers ambushed them at the event. The lawmaker describes the partial state of em...
A pall fell on Douglas House, Owerri, the official residence of Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, after the Court of Appeal in Owerri, last week Thursday, ordered the immediate recall of the sacked local government chairmen and their executiv...
Against the background of raging corruption in the polity, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Alli, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Suggests death penalty for proven cases of graft involving public officers. In this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN he also disagree...
On Thursday, July 12, 2012, the entire country was thrown into another moment of mourning, following a fuel tanker fire disaster that sent scores of people to their early graves in Ula-Okogbe community in Ahoada-East Local Government Area of Rivers Sta...
Recently, over 54,000 Batch ‘B’ corps members bowed out from the scheme after their compulsory one year service to their fatherland. But with the rising unemployment in Nigeria, there are fears that such overwhelming population may remain u...