Detectives in Kenya have arrested two Nigerians, William Opia and Johnbull Asbor, for allegedly murdering and dismembering Rita Waeni, a 20-year-old student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in an…
No half measures, Tinubu, sell refineries
THE new bid by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to entrust the management of its largest refinery in private hands begs the question of privatisation. It is not only beating about…
Tinubu says universities central to attaining ‘new Nigeria,’ hails Jega, Falola
President Bola Tinubu has said universities, among other educational institutions, are central to the attainment of the new Nigeria of his dream. He urged academics to put on their thinking caps and…
Barbarians Have Taken Over Social Media In Nigeria — Soyinka
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has launched a scathing attack on the state of social media in Nigeria, declaring it to be “taken over by barbarians.” In a speech delivered at the 48th…
Discordant tunes over Tinubu’s plan to deploy forest guards to curb kidnapping
As Nigeria continues to search for solutions for the pervasive insecurity in the country, especially kidnapping and banditry, experts in the security space have expressed divergent opinions on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s…
Suicide: Nigeria Betrays Amarachi Ugochukwu, Even in Death, by Tony Eluemunor
I will never forget the sad and saddening picture of the late Amarachi Ugochukwu, the 32-year old staff of Globus Bank, Ikorodu, Lagos, who committed suicide on 8 January 2024. She had…
Nigerian govt speaks on Shell asset sales
The Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources said the Nigerian government is not averse to Shell asset sales. Nneamaka Okafor, the special adviser on media and communication to the Minister of State for…
Northern Elders Reject Relocation Of CBN ‘Key Departments’ To Lagos
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed deep concern about the reported plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to relocate major departments from the Abuja headquarters to the former headquarters…
CAN to FG: Nigerians won’t pay ransom if they’re safe
The Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria( CAN), Kaduna State chapter, Rev Joseph John Hayab, has said it would only be wrong to pay ransom, if the government would secure the people….
Court to Emefiele : You can travel out of Abuja, not Nigeria
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted the permission for the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to travel out of Abuja. But the court ruled that he…