Opinion

By Professor Ani Casimir When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rolled out his Renewed Hope Agenda, critics and allies alike watched closely to see how its ambitious pillars of economic diversification, job creation, and industrial growth would manifest in the federal civil service. Few ministries have captured this transformative shift quite like the Federal Ministry of … [Read more…]

By Sebastine Chukwuebuka Okafor, Ph.D ​Since its establishment on December 29, 1989, by Decree No. 48 of 1989 (now the NDLEA Act), the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency began full operations in January 1990. ​Prior to this, Nigeria was experiencing a sharp increase in drug trafficking and substance abuse that threatened to turn the country … [Read more…]

Last week, I came across an account on X, formerly known as Twitter, the haunting account by one Elder Oyin Zubair about Owa-Onire, a community once known for its celebrated waterfall but now reduced to silence and abandonment. His telling was not merely reportage; it read like an elegy for a place emptied of itself. … [Read more…]

By Uche Anichukwu July 17, 2021 is forever etched in my heart. It was the day my first son, who is also my second child, graduated from primary school. I was reeling in pains from the burns I suffered during a domestic fire incident. My legs, wrapped in bandage, were hurting badly. The Igbo often … [Read more…]

By Ikechukwu Amaechi When Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd), former army spokesman, died in captivity on Saturday, June 13, all hell broke loose. Understandably! He was not an ordinary citizen. But knowing Nigerians well, all it takes to forget him is another high-profile abduction. And that nearly happened on Monday night when terrorists attacked the National … [Read more…]

By Abdul Mahmud Governments often lionise those they choose, but history reserves its own place for those it recognises as true heroes. For anyone who followed the social and political movements of the 1980s and 1990s, and the long struggle for the revalidation of June 12, two names remain impossible to ignore: Glory Kilanko and … [Read more…]