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By Chukwudum Ebele The Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Idemili branch, Pere Oseme has described the proposal by the national assembly to ensure autonomy for local governments…

By Simon Chinedu Njoku Wooing Nigerian artisanal refinery operators will become a major policy of the Federal government in the months ahead. The gloomy economic picture of the post…

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced the donation of N1.045 billion to the nine states of the Niger Delta region to fight against the spread of the Coronavirus…

By Cyril Mbah, Abuja An advocate of gender equality, Professor Ocholi Ekundayo has suggested that more opportunities should be provided for Nigerian women to assume more strategic…

By Gabriel Chy Alonta Human rights group, WomenAid Collective (WACOL), has petitioned the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission over last week's violent invasion…

The groups while stressing that Jalingo was being unjustly detained for asking genuine questions about the state’s finances, said that a visa ban can contribute to reversing the current…

By Chidi Amuta In every direction, both the stealthy implementation of the notorious RUGA cattle scheme and its untidy suspension are negatives for the Buhari presidency. It is sad that…

By Olisemeka Obeche While Nigerians spent much of last weekend and early this week tracking results of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, a lot of interesting…

By Churchill Okonkwo I will start this initial reac­tion to the anarchy that nearly descended on the Senate by addressing Senator Shehu Sani: Senator, turning a blind eye to acts of…

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to say it as bluntly and categorically as possible, our dear country, Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is slumbering and snoring deeply. The…

By Ifeanyi Izeze The difference in meaning between the two words “finish” and ‘com­plete’ is most times confusing but can be made clearer using the cur­rent Nigerian Presidency.…

By Reuben Abati It is the country that pays the cost when the opposition is asleep, and one political party is allowed to ride roughshod over everyone just because it is in power and…

By Reuben Abati Less than a year to the next general elections in Nige­ria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is the absence of a robust, virile and…

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo For over a decade, the drumbeat of Africa rising has been punc­tuated by the piano chords of Africa sliding back into its usual habits of poor gov­ernance,…

By Chris Okeke Some understandable degree of excitement currently greets the im­minent enthronement of Bish­op Chukwudi Ezeofor as the Bishop of Aguata Diocese. The prevailing…