Eligible voters with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) totalling 749,065 in Ekiti are expected to file out on Saturday June 18th across the 177 wards in the 16 local government areas of the state to elect the next...
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The Owo Bloodbath!
The Sunday, 5th June 2022 attack at St Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa Street, Owo, Ondo State, home town of the state Governor, Mr Olurotimi Akeredolu, yet again brings into sharp focus the disturbing spectre of...
Arresting the Carnage in Anambra
On May 21 2022, the decapitated body of Hon Okechukwu Okoye, member representing Aguata Constituency II at the Anambra State House of Assembly was found at Nnobi in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. Six...
Deborah Yakubu: Lest Impunity triumphs
The sequence of events following the callous murder of Deborah Yakubu by a lynch mob is alarming. Deborah, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was killed over allegations...
Godwin Emefiele’s position untenable
The recent revelation by the All Progressive Congress (APC) Chairman of Ward 6 in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr Nduka Erikpume indicating that the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr...
Presidential Pardon for Corrupt Ex-Governors: Buhari’s Death Knell for the Anti-Graft War
On Thursday April 14, 2022, Nigerians received the shocking news of the presidential pardon President Muhammadu Buhari granted to former governors and convicted felons, Jolly Nyame of Taraba State and Joshua Dariye of...
The Twin Horrors in Kaduna
In a space of 48 hours, between Saturday March 26 and Monday March 28, Kaduna State has been dealt deadly blows by terrorists. In the first incident at Kaduna Airport on March 26, terrorists breached the Kaduna...
Government must halt bestial killings in Nigeria
In the past few days, a groundswell of anger and indignation has enveloped Nigeria over the cruel circumstances in which 22-year-old Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwole was killed in Lagos State. As if in a long bad dream,...
Adulterated fuel saga: Apology not enough, heads must roll
Over the past three weeks, news reports and social media images have captured the torrid experience of Nigerians, beleaguered by the acute scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol. Official and...
Abba Kyari Drug Scandal: Beyond the Drama
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) notes with utter dismay, the stunning revelations by the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) linking the suspended erstwhile head of the...
The death of al-Qurayshi: Lessons for Nigeria in counter-terrorism
On February 3, 2022, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced to Americans and the rest of the world, that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the “horrible terrorist leader is no more”. According to...
Troubling human rights records in Nigeria under President Buhari
The World Report 2022 published by the humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, contains a damning narration on the human rights record in Nigeria. A summary of the contents which cited observations of serial...