Editorial

The Nigerian government recently ordered the closure of the country’s land borders with the Republics of Benin and Niger. The border closure, code-named “Ex-Swift Response”, is jointly enforced by the Nigeria Customs Service and the…

With last Wednesday’s dismissal of the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging President Muhammadu Buhari‘s re-election for failing to discharge the burden of proof, the…

In our editorial last week, we had emphasised that it is the primary responsibility of government to ensure the safety and well-being of its citizens anywhere in the world. We also expressed the strong belief that until the Muhammadu Buhari…

A 46-year-old businessman, Pius Ezekwem, native of Awo-Omamma, Imo State, is the latest victim of the senseless killings of Nigerians in South Africa. Ezekwem, who reportedly owned a chain of bed and breakfast guest houses in King…

The immediate past deputy Senate president and member of the Ninth Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, was recently physically assaulted by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Nuremberg, Germany. Ekweremadu was invited to the annual…

The prison in Nigeria did not begin as a system to rehabilitate lawbreakers. It was designed to punish citizens who were opposed to the colonial rule. And as long as the prisons served the interest of the British rulers to maintain law and…

Millions of Muslims in Nigeria join fellow adherents of the Islamic faith in commemorating the annual Eid-el-Kabir (the great festival or Eid-el-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice). The Eid, which falls on the 10th day of Dhulhijjah, the twelfth…

Residents of Ijaw-Kiri, a fishing community in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State found a whale washed ashore recently. It could not be ascertained if the fish was dead, but the moment the riverine people sighted it on the…

Two female psychiatric patients got a new lease of life recently after being rehabilitated, courtesy of Chief Afe Babalola, founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti. The two citizens from Ondo and Kogi states were picked up from the…

It is a fact that bandits of different backgrounds are on the prowl in all regions of the country, making life difficult and unsafe for the citizenry. When it seems that the war against the Boko Haram has been won, as declared by the…