Time to review vice president/deputy governor’s positions
By Zainab Suleiman Okino Our kind of democracy is such that the winner takes all; but even among the so-called winners, some are just onlookers. […]
Column / Opinion
The benefits of Russian return to Ajaokuta
By Salisu Na’inna Dambata One of the important outcomes of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Russia where he attended the Russia-Africa submit was the discussion […]
Takeaways from Buhari’s visit to Russia
By Garba Shehu President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria from his four-day visit to the Russian Republic extremely happy with the success of the […]
Saka siblings: Litmus test for Niger Assembly Speaker
By Ahmadu Salisu Kachalla This write-up is directed to the Honourable Speaker, Niger State House of Assembly for obvious reasons. You are a lawyer whose […]
As discontent and rivalry take centre stage in Nigeria
By Zainab Suleiman Okino The sum total of everything—the good, the bad and the ugly may form the mass of our existential life and the […]
More bullets and fewer prayers
By Majeed Dahiru As Nigeria’s security situation worsens, the government is increasingly appearing hopelessly helpless. For a country that has perhaps one of the most […]
Nigeria @59: To forget or to understand our differences
By Majeed Dahiru Nigeria’s journey to nationhood in the past 59 years since independence from the British Empire in October 1960, though long enough a […]
Teachers, the most neglected civil servants
By Salihu Bashir “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal […]
The looming deadline for MDAs to join IPPIS
By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, on September 10, 2019 informed all federal Ministries, Departments […]
Nigeria @59 The Double Chain of Servitude and Subjugation By Femi Fani-Kayode
In this piece, Femi Fani-Kayode writes on the country’s journey so far, pre and post independence Era, and the country’s present situation 59 years after […]
Ajaokuta steel: As NEXIM returns from Russia with a deal
By Muhammed Nuru Yakubu Caught in the midsection by relentless jabs of perennial crash in crude oil prices, the Nigeria economy is being frantically steered out of a looming disaster of compromised earnings in foreign exchange which she desperately needs to stabilize […]
Greta, Hadiza, Kosisochukwu as metaphors
Eleven days ago, the world stool still for Swedish girl, Greta Thumberg, who held world leaders by the jugular over their inaction in tackling the […]
Combating xenophobia through cultural diversity
Lisa Bokani Motsu “To oppose knowledge? God forbid! Nay, for God, knowledge is the most glorious gift of man and the most noble of human […]
Masari, Zulum: Tackling a problem from its roots
By Zainab Suleiman Okino Since the Boko Haram insurgency appeared on the scene in 2009, tens of thousands of lives of the civil […]
Judiciary and morality of rule of law
By Majeed Dahiru Since the transition from military to civil democratic rule over twenty years ago in 1999, Nigeria’s constitutional democracy has suffered a stunted […]