Buhari as spokesman for terror?
Even if it still continues with its destruction of properties and killings in different parts of the North in a mindless campaign of terror that is bound to end in…
Jonathan’s many ‘sins’ against lawmakers
President Goodluck Jonathan is embroiled in an unending face-off with members of the National Assembly. The federal lawmakers had severally accused the President of treating their resolutions with levity. One…
A Nigerian version of state police
Editor: The apparent failure of federal security arrangements in recent times, to meet the challenges of national security, has heightened the debate about the issue of state police and the…
Save Aminat from child marriage
Editor: The editorial of The Guardian, Tuesday, October 30, 2012, entitled: “Menace of underage marriage,” commented on the forceful betrothal of a 12-year-old girl named Aminat Hamisu to a 70-year-old,…
The Story of Yobe State University’s Meteoric Growth
When it was established in 2006 by the Bukar Abba Ibrahim administration, Yobe State University (which was then called Bukar Abba Ibrahim University) was universally derided as a glorified secondary…
No Creation of States in Constitution Amendment
Against the backdrop of clamour for the creation of equal number of states in Nigeria’s six geo-political zones, the Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, Sen.…
FAAN Official Arraigned for being in possession of $1.4m
Akinyele Adetule, an official of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), recently held by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),officials in Lagos, for being in possession of $1.4…
N7.4bn debt:Contractors hold ministry officials hostage
More than 40 contractors on Tuesday held officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs in Abuja hostage, as they protested against unnecessary delay in the payment of N7.4 billion debt…
CBN Stops ATM N100 Charges On Bank Customers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has suspended N100 deductions and charges from bank customers using Automated Teller Machines in banks other than the ones in which the have their…
Two arraigned over N963m fuel subsidy fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, 13 November, 2012 arraigned one Rowaye Jubril and his company Brila Energy Limited before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State…