Editorial

Every year, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth as the event in which God decisively intervened in the affairs of the world by uniting the human race to himself.

The death of Olorogun Frank Ovie-Kokori marks the end of an era of active unionism mixed with positive politics; and is yet another loss to the nation. Chief Kokori who died on December 7, 2023, on his 80th birthday anniversary was one of the titans that thronged the political ...

Henry Alfred Kissinger, the renowned United States diplomat, passed on last month, leaving the world with mixed reactions borne out of diverse characteristics of his person.

Reported incidents of electoral malpractices during the recent off-season governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states further attested to the pervasive nature of orchestrated infractions which regrettably has become an undesirable feature of elections in Nigeria.

Amid growing circles of poverty plaguing Nigerians, the disdain and alarm being expressed across the country over humongous sums of money budgeted for patently undeserving projects are most appropriate.

That the administration of President Bola Tinubu allowed a huge number of 1,411 delegates to represent Nigeria at the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) is unacceptable. It reeks of an international advertisement of reckless spending and misplaced priority by a country running on seemingly endless borrowing

To say that Nigerians are demoralisedover the spendthrift attitude of their governors, at a time the ordinary Nigerian is finding it difficult to survive is a gross understatement.

Against the pitiable situation of many public sector retirees, it is disheartening that most states in the country are patently guilty of violating the statutory pension scheme.

Amidst the persistent abuse and deconstruction of police powers and functions, President Bola Tinubu has recently directed that police personnel assigned to VIP security duties should be withdrawn.

That mistaken bombing of civilians at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Kaduna State by a military drone, on Sunday, December 3, 2023 is another painful reminder of the vulnerability of civilian lives in the ongoing war against terrorism in the country.

International cooperation is at its most efficient as countries are, for any of myriad reasons, either victims of or threatened by it.  In September 2021, in pursuance of its duty to international collaboration against terrorism, the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) revealed to the public a total of 38 persons including six Nigerians, and 15 entities designated as supporters of terrorism. But Nigeria is averse, apparently, to follow in a similar direction.

The Federal Government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said it would not disclose to the  Nigerian people – and continued  victims  of terrorism – persons  known and identified as financiers of that heinous crime because...