Category: Opinion

By Johnson Eze Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, FRSC Corps Marshal The Eid el Fitri has come and gone leaving some interesting and remarkable relics. To the Muslim community, it is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the end of Ramadan fast and in fact begin to harvest Allah’s blessings that go with obedience to his commandment. Many […]

By KOLADE ALEBIOSU With much respect, I feel seriously compelled to air my opinion against the backdrop of the sinister intention of the Lagos State Government and that of the Lagos State House of Assembly to sign into law the Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law, ousting and usurping the powers of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]