Opinion

Bauchi may not have seen the best of its son, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, yet, as he continues to deliver world-class medical facilities and equipment to the state. Within the last three months, he has been in Bauchi three times to commission multi-billion-naira health facilities and equipment, turning Bauchi intoContinue Reading

The 81st UN General Assembly met under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all.” I followed the General Debate closely. For different reasons, leader after leader called for reform of the United Nations. Small countries want the Security Council restructured, above all to broadenContinue Reading

By Abidemi Adebamiwa President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, subsidy is subsidy. Your administration says NNPC Retail will give up its profit margin on petrol sales to help ease the hardship Nigerians are facing. It has also suggested ways to keep petrol prices stable, like setting a maximum of N1,350 per litreContinue Reading

By Matthew Tukura Not all parents become friends with their children, let alone with other children. But I am fortunate to have found both a father and a friend in retired Justice Suleiman Galadima, who always wants the best for me. He is a father in the truest sense ofContinue Reading

            On Monday, a Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 aircraft, NAF 931, took off from Benin on what the Air Force described as a routine mission to Lagos. It never got to Lagos. The plane went down in the swamps of Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government AreaContinue Reading

By ISA AbdulMumin A crumbling heritage, a bold rescue plan, and the fight to decide who saves a national treasure: On Kings College Road, Lagos Island, a wrought-iron gate still bears the crest of an institution that once stood as the gold standard of secondary education in colonial and post-colonialContinue Reading

By Mohamed Kari In a recent commentary published in a national newspaper and on some social media platforms on the legal travails surrounding former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and the Mambilla hydropower arbitration saga, Professor Chidi Odinkalu opens with an engaging contrast. He juxtaposes the multi-million-dollar propertyContinue Reading