GCMX: Why it Deserves Commendations, not Condemnations
By Johnson Eze Gazewa Commodity Market & Exchange Agriculture is one of the most strategic sectors in the economy of any nation. Aside its unique role of enhancing food security for the population, it is indispensable in the sustenance of industries as it produces cash crops that constitute raw materials for manufacturing activities. Almost everybody […]
Court Adjourns Okupe’s N702Million Money Laundering Trial As Defence Witness Fails To Disclose Details
By Reuben Nwankwo (Abuja) Doyin Okupe, Fmr Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the money laundering trial of Doyin Okupe, a former senior special assistant on public affairs to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan till March 5, 2021 for continuation of trial. The Economic and […]
Justice System: How Malami’s Footprints are Deepening Rule of Law in Nigeria
By Johnson Eze Abubakar Malami, SAN, Nigerian Minister of Justice & Attorney general One of the key enablers of economy anywhere in the world is functional judicial system-one that plays its roles in a robust, effective and dispassionate manner to ensure that every human activity is carried out in conformity with the orderly and rightful […]
Transparency, Transformation And Repositioning At NSCDC
By OMOBA KENNETH AIGBEGBELE Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, CG NSCDC From the plethora of achievements, from the reduction of vandalism on critical national assets, enhanced regulation of private guards, robust inter-agency collaboration, high morale of personnel to capacity and manpower development, the story cannot be the same again at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps […]
NDDC: Why NASS should Support, Not Antagonize Akpabio
By Johnson Eze (Abuja) Obong, Godswill Akpabio, Hon Minister of Niger Delta Affaits The resolute effort of the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Godswill Akpabio, duly approved by President Mohammadu Buhari to rejuvenate the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC into a mandate-driven agency, suffered a hitch last week in National Assembly NASS as […]
Nigeria’s national assembly under security siege
By Yemi Itodo Without prejudice to the importance of security to law, order, stability and the overall wellbeing of the Nigerian state, especially in a convoluted society battling a deadly insurgency, the bitter truth is that, the National Assembly of today is manifesting all the symptoms of a police state. It is indeed an […]
A Look at USA 2009 H1N1 Virus Compared to China 2020 Corona Virus
By Mario Cavolo When the United States 2009 H1N1 swine flu emerged, an international emergency, a declared global pandemic, it eventually infected 60 million and initially killed a minimum of 18,449 cases that year. But the final story of the H1N1 global pandemic was far worse than that, with close to 300,000 deaths, according to […]
Road Traffic Accident and the Responsibility of Government
By Fidelis Nnadi Road safety in Nigeria has assumed a worrisome dimension and the nation is always listed among countries with high road crashes. Hardly a single day goes by in Nigeria without at least one or two road accidents recorded. This alarming rate of road traffic accidents may have informed the decision […]
Northern Agenda: Real or Imagined?
By Jamil Afegbua Speculations about whether or not there is an orchestrated agenda being pursued by Northern Nigerian leaders have been rife for a long time in the country. Many in the country especially those from the Western, Southern and Eastern regions of Nigeria had for long spread a suspicious feeling about indeed the North […]