*NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Information minister, Lai Mohammed, says the calls for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over rising insecurity in the nation is “cheap and irresponsible,” insisting security has improved since he came to power in 2015. Mr. Mohammed made the statement during a meeting with members of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) on Thursday ...

  Many Nigerians discuss country’s issues with a non-positive disposition (glass half-empty) as if country is veering towards, ‘doomsday’. It reminds me of a book titled “Fact Fullness“ by Prof Hans Roslin, that describes “Ten reasons we are wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think”. This is partly because what tends to sell or ...

By Sam Kargbo There is the belief harboured in some quarters that the presidency has been hived off from the APC and corralled at Aso Rock by a group of backroom staff, relations and friends of Mr President. This cabal is said to have created an alternative world with its set of alternative realities for Mr President in such a ...

  IGP ORDERS INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGED SUIT TOUCHING ON STATES’ JUDICIAL PANEL OF INQUIRY, The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has directed immediate investigations into a suit purportedly challenging the legality of the States’ Judicial Panel of Inquiry, investigating allegations by citizens against officers of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The IGP, who gave the ...

  By: Otono Muhammad The Nigeria flag ought to Fly Half Mast over the Bornu massacre of 43 innocent farmers whose crime was their going to farm to harvest and feed the nation. They are no liabilities but assets to the nation as FARMERS who cultivate, plant, weed, harvest and distribute their produce for the food sufficiency and survival of ...

  The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 would be administered in the UK on Tuesday, Chris Hopson, head of NHS Provider, a membership organization for the National Health Service trusts in England announced on Friday. “There are 50 hospital hubs and we know the vaccine will reach those to enable people start vaccinating on Tuesday,” the NHS ...

  BY NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA • DECEMBER 4, 2020 Amazonian separatists group fighting for the independence of English speaking Cameroon on Friday began imposing a four-day lock-down in the two troubled regions of Northwest and Southwest, to disrupt pioneer regional elections scheduled for Sunday according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria. The lockdown will run from ...

  Perhaps, I would like to start this discourse with the end, or what should be my conclusion, by expressing my unalloyed support for a genuine restructuring of the Nigerian polity. I am referring to a restructuring that will enthrone full autonomy in dealing with divisions of governmental functions and financial relations among the federating units, in a federal structure. ...

  Very commonly, when people hear the noun RITUAL, or it’s adjective, RITUALIST, the first connotation that jumps to mind is NEGATIVE; a killer, to be specific. Any person that is called a “ritualist” (especially in Africa), is commonly seen as a killer that offers human beings to the devil to make money. Here is a shocker for the persons ...

  By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu The phrase  – Igbo bu Igbo – literally meaning ‘Ndigbo that are Ndigbo’ is usually used in addressing and greeting an Igbo audience. This three-word phrase, however, addresses a more fundamental issue, namely, the Igbo identity. Above all, it points out that though being born in Igboland or by (an) Igbo parent(s) or ...