Opinions

For a government that has repeatedly claimed to have technically defeated Boko Haram on several occasions, it is curious for the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Ibrahim Attahiru to issue a 48-hour ultimatum to the troops of the Nigerian Army to defeat and clear the murderous Islamist terrorist group out of Borno […]

Certainly, there is everything wrong with the hasty appointment of the ex-service chiefs as non-career Ambassadors by President Muhammadu Buhari. In the trenches, the war on terror, compounded by kidnapping and generalized insecurity is going very roughly. In the minds of a beleaguered citizenry, Nigeria’s leaders are making things even worse. This should not be […]

It is entirely in line with the character of Nigerian leaders to moan about problems, which ordinarily, are their responsibility to solve. The latest display of this disgraceful disposition came last Saturday from the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, who openly expressed apprehension over the spate of insecurity in the country; while rating […]

The recent announcement by the Federal government that it has commenced the process of disposing final forfeited assets currently situated in 25 locations across the country is a reminder, once again, that Nigeria remains a reference point in corruption by depraved leaders, who engaged in willful despoliation of the national patrimony. But the opaque circumstances […]

Just when it seems the Muhammadu Buhari administration has hit the lowest ebb in governance capacity and signaling for real national rebirth, it manages to find a further depth in ignominy. President Buhari’s nomination of the immediate past service chiefs as ambassadors, barely nine days after sacking them from the country’s security agencies is patently […]

The call by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) urging President Muhammadu Buhari to seek help from the United States, Israel and other countries to help fight the Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other crimes, once again raised the ante of insecurity as an infamy that has become a sore on Nigeria. CAN said […]

The life of the average Nigerian is short and brutish and the headlines in any given day in Nigeria sounds like a reading from the Book of Lamentation. Hardly does any day pass without headlines like: Boko Haram kills 23 in Borno, Bandits kill 45 in Kanu, Gunmen kidnap family of five in Southern Kaduna; […]

For those who say Nigeria is a country where wonders shall never end, a new example is the ostrich-fatalistic response by the presidency to the latest report by Transparency International (TI) that since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, corruption in Nigeria has grown worse. In its damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, […]

As insecurity which has turned the entire nation into a huge killing field, holds sway in the face of ineffective government response, the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs signaled a move in the right direction, even if belated. Though coming after persistent pressure from Nigerians, President Buhari’s removal of the […]

If Nigerians are to be spared the fulfilment of the damning predictions of many observers about Nigeria as a country tottering on the verge of implosion, come the 2023 general elections, the recent victory of Joe Biden who defeated former President Donald Trump in the US presidential election is significant, as it offers Nigerian politicians […]

Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president today, Wednesday January 20, 2021, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and a bitterly divided nation at war with itself. Trump will be the first president in modern […]

If Nigerians ever thought that nobility found its way into the nation’s highest offices with the return of democracy and civil rule, the irreverent trading of words between supporters of the President, which has gravitated into outright display of animosity in the public space, against the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, […]