Op.Ed pieces and columnists
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Premier Petroleum Limited, Abuja last week celebrated his Birthday. But instead of throwing lavish parties, he decided to celebrate it by visiting Orphanage homes and local primary schools within Abuja v...
Towards the development of the indigenous shipping industry, Nigeria in 2003 enacted the Inland and Coastal Shipping Act, popularly known as the Cabotage Act 2003. Nearly a decade later, the country has yet to witness a reasonable implementation of the...
The Presidency will shortly forward to the National Assembly, an amendment bill that will re-jig the existing Anti-Terrorism Act. UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis previews the single-item amendment that could raise the ante in a new, tougher drive to cage...
Former Police Commissioner Abubakar Tsav served with distincton in Lagos and several other states in the country. In this interview with IGHO OYOYO, he alleges that dishonesty and corruption are the key triggers of the current state of insecurity that ...
The curfew imposed on Suleja local governemnt area of Niger state since the Christmas day bombing has affected economic activities in the once peaceful community. Traders have now resorted to the weekly Madalla Market notorious for tanker accidents whi...
The spate at which victims of emergency lost their lives due to demands for deposit and police report by hospitals is alarming. MAIRO MUHAMMAD MUDI takes a look at the situation. Ishaq was a roadside mechanic in Kaduna who after closing for work had to...
Ahead of the new National Identity scheme planned by the Federal government, Nigerians are doubtful that the exercise though long overdue may not meet the expectations of over 170 million population of the country. CHIKA OKEKE reports that the buzz has...
National Secretary of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Buba Galadima is an engineer and one of the key voices that moved for actualisation of the Jonathan Presidency through the Save Nigeria Group (SNG). However, in this interview w...
Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade is the Minister of Police Affairs, under whose supervision, a major project to check insecurity is being undertaken. In this interview with Soni Daniel and Emma OkereH, Olubolade sheds light on the job and the nature of pol...
It has an Arabian origin, then travelled through the western world. Shisha has arrived Nigeria and is gradually gaining presence. More common in the northern region of the country than other parts, it can mostly be found in bars, night clubs and can al...
Insecurity which has been ravaging the Nigerian fabric in the recent time especially in the North, came to the front burner at a national symposium organised by NASFAT, in Abuja. In this report, EMMA OKEREH tries to look at the issues that played out a...
The Commissioner of Water Resources in Kaduna State, Mr. Sunday Marshal Katung, in this interview with MIDAT JOSEPH, speaks on the effort of the state government to ensure that the citizens have access to clean water. Can you give us an insight i...
Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State is one man many people love to hate especially in contemporary politics of Nigeria. His greatest offence apparently is doing good and feeling good about it. Unknown to Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso...
Lake Chad is the only sizeable surface freshwater reservoir in the Sahel zone. Climatic factors, its uncontrolled use for irrigated farming, and high population pressure have caused the lake to shrink to 10 per cent of its original surface area over th...
The Director-General, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Niger State, Joshua Bawa, in this interview with ABU NMODU, says, among other things, that the tremendous political will from Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has put the off...