By Azu Ishiekwene

One month from now, Nigeria’s last batch of states created in 1996 to bring the total to 36, would turn 25 years old.

By Ezeh Jude Ogechi

Three weeks ago in this space, we mused on the topic: "Abba Kyari: Why are Nigerians acting surprised?" And we asked, "who investigates the investigator."? It was informed by the twist that having seen the endemic corrupt practices within the rank and file of our police force, Nigerians still expressed surprise at the allegations by U.S intelligence police that DCP Abba Kyari was an accessory to Hushpuppi's crimes.

By Sunny Irakpo

Drug trafficking is becoming more prevalent in our society in recent years. Years after years, we keep on battling with this scourge as a nation. Some persons have chosen drug trafficking as a huge source of income and the inglorious business is growing in leaps and bounds. The immoral business has become a multi-billion naira industry for the perpetrators of the trade. The players in Nigeria are not relenting in their attempts to expand their trade across all nations of the world.

By Yahaya Sarki

Democracy has indeed trudged on in spite of all the odds. This inevitable feat indeed needs no further illustration as the fact is as glaring as it is a reality.

By Bashir Rabe Mani

All nations of the world have one form of post-graduation national service or the other just as Nigeria has the indispensable National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), which has been part of the country's development agenda since 1973. To say that the Scheme is important or critical to the sustainable development and prosperity of Nigeria is certainly an understatement. In fact, there is hardly any Nigerian who is not aware of the existence of the Scheme, as well as its relevance, and enormous contributions to the country.

By Ezeh Jude .O

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else." - Lee Iacocca

Of all the cadres and professions of civil service, none has suffered more denunciatory and disdainful treatments like the Nigerian teachers. Society, in general, sees them as a people occupying the lowest strata in the honors web. They are downscaled to proletariats, and most surprisingly by those they taught. Before the return to democracy, they were among the least remunerated civil servants. A sharp contrast to Carl Jung's assertion: "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our

By Femi Adesina

The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).

By Ezeh Jude O.

Almost all our past leaders on khaki do evoke some sort of situational irony each time they discuss burning national issues from their respective retirement homes. They suddenly become 'omniscient,' proffering solutions to all the problems facing us as a country, (even though their missteps in office visited most of these misfortunes upon us), and they would want their predecessors to heed their advice and fix them with magic wands.

By Femi Adesina

Former Governor of Anambra State and running mate to Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, flew into the eye of the storm some days ago, when he said on the breakfast show of a television station that the Nigerian economy couldn’t be driven on infrastructure development.

By Ben Gabriel

The uproar surrounding the arrest and detention of 3 Israeli filmmakers in Nigeria by the Department of State Services is unnecessary and misconceived. The desperate move exhibited by the trio in hastily releasing a video to paint the country and the intelligence agency in bad light further justifies an innate motive to cast aspersions.

By Chidi Omeje

Something is happening in the northeast. The counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations which the Nigerian military is prosecuting in that region is gathering steam and the steam is obviously becoming too hot for the adversary. In what appears to be an anti-climax in their bloody campaign, Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have been boxed into a cul-de-sac, courtesy of the unrelenting offensive operations of the Nigerian troops; a predictable fate that offers the notoriously vicious terror group only one option: waving of the olive branch! And olive branch they have been frantically waving of late, the bloodied terrorists.

By Dr Sylvester Onyegbu

A nation or society can live with an incompetent government, said Othman Dan Fodio, but not with injustice as a way of life. Courts are called temples of justice the world over.