Letters
4 Mar 2024
The toilet was a jerry-built improvised by the market users and sat wobbly nine metres from the garri displayed in different sizes of bowls. The flies held her gaze: they rose in thick, green swarms and perched in formation on the dingy slab of the toilet.
3 Mar 2024
One of the major challenges of West African states is leadership deficiency, which has often led to political instability. West Africans have attempted to solve their problems through the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese. ECOWAS was established in May 1975, but the people’s…
3 Mar 2024
Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu promises to be one of Nigeria’s more courageous elected leaders. Emerging evidence points in that direction. His predecessors had fought shy of the twin contagions
1 Mar 2024
Asiayei Enaibo of Bobogbene community is a Warri, Delta State based journalist who made a necessitated choice/sacrifice by opting out of conventional journalism to explore formation that is supremely foundational to knowledge and cultural production processes.
1 Mar 2024
During his inauguration on May 29, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared that fuel subsidy is gone. Fuel subsidy removal was part of the economic reforms the President promised to implement during his campaigns to place Nigeria on a path of prosperity. He asserted that the petrol subsidy regime increasingly favoured the rich more than…
29 Feb 2024
Sir: Culture, which is divided into two, namely the tangible aspect of culture and the non-tangible aspect of culture, is defined as the totality of a people’s way of life.
28 Feb 2024
Nigeria may be in the throes of its worst economic crisis ever, but increasingly loud calls for the president to resign are wildly off the mark in a country where hypocrisy and hysteria are common public attributes.
27 Feb 2024
Sir: Nigeria is very much a country in pain. While the few optimists remaining in Nigeria would describe the pains as those of childbirth, the numberless pessimists, optics and skeptics would beg to differ.
26 Feb 2024
Sir: The current economic situation has taken a lot of negative effects on many undergraduates in various universities in Nigeria, including those in private institutions. Perhaps, the act of waking up to the exorbitant and nefarious prices of cost of goods and transportation has grossly taken a toll on many students nationwide.
25 Feb 2024
Love, which is, sometimes, an indescribable emotion, is at the root of our celebration of St. Valentine’s day. Like hate, which is a word depicting emotion, love is a four-letter word.
23 Feb 2024
In the relentless pursuit of transparency, accountability, and the eradication of corruption, no individual should be considered above the law. This principle is foundational to a just and equitable society where the rule of law prevails. The recent allegations surrounding Jim Obazee, the former Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to probe the Central…
22 Feb 2024
To a very large extent, it has become apparent that those in the corridor of power care less about the welfare and well-being of local residents of oil-bearing communities. This was exhibited in the recent on-the-spot visit of members
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Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, has reaffirmed his administration's steadfast commitment to transforming the fortunes of the state for the benefit and prosperity of its citizens. Governor Mutfwang made this pledge during a Sunday service at COCIN LCC Garki, RCC Abuja. He expressed hope that 2025 would be a year of glory and…
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Plateau State Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang has commissioned 20 tractors for farming communities across the state. This initiative is part of his administration's vision for food security and economic empowerment. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, which followed the Plateau State Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes Project (ACReSAL) Day/CRF disbursement at the New Government House, Rayfield,…
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Record 31-time Copa del Rey winners Barcelona will face Valencia in the quarter-finals, after they were paired in Monday's draw. Spanish and European champions Real Madrid travel to neighbours Leganes, while Atletico Madrid host Getafe in another capital derby clash. Barcelona thumped Real Betis 5-1 in the last 16 to progress to the last eight,…
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The death toll from the Niger tanker explosion has risen to at least 98 persons, with 69 injured, following the petrol tanker explosion that occurred on Saturday 18 2025, in Gurara Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The latest update was issued by Abdullahi Baba-Arah, Director-General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency,…
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says it received 1,161 complaints of human rights abuse in Plateau between January and December 2024. Mrs Kiyenpiya Mafuyai, the Acting Coordinator of NHRC in the state, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos. According to Mafuyai, the cases ranged from unlawful detention,…
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On Monday, an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court remanded a 35-year-old man, Ikechukwu Nkwuda, over alleged theft of goods worth N6 million. The Prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Osanyintuyi told the court that Nkwuda committed the offence between June 2023 and November 2024 at No 1. Aderemi Road, Lagere, Ile-Ife. Osanyintuyi said that the suspect entered the shop of…
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A safety and security expert, Amb. Nurain Abayomi Mumuni, on Monday, urged Nigerians to avoid using mobile phones close to fuel tankers. Mumuni, who is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), emphasised that the use of mobile phones near fuel tankers could trigger an explosion. The APC chieftain made these declarations while…