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The Global Peace Index has ranked Nigeria 148th among 163 independent states and territories, according to their level of peacefulness. Nigeria retained the 148th spot from last year. The 2019 edition of the GPI, which is described as the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness, placed Nigeria among the five …

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has ordered the state Anti-Corruption Commission to probe the claims by the Kano Zoological Gardens that a Gorilla in the state-owned Zoo swallowed N6.8 million. “The order was given on Friday and the commission has already swung into action,” a statement by the Chief Press …

Glowing tributes and encomiums must never be denied Nigerian leaders of all shades in the early phase of our struggle for freedom, and particularly, for the resistance they mustered against slave trade and colonial domination. Of course, there were elements from within whose levels of political consciousness and patriotism were …

This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, Uncle Eric Teniola, who hails from Ondo state. The thought-provoking brief triggered this article on …

Most citizens who are old enough to remember the significance of June 12, 26 years ago had last year hailed the decision of the current administration to recognise the June 12, 1993 as a monument. On our part, we had then noted that whether it was an obligatory atonement emanating …

By its strange decision to establish a radio station with nationwide-and possibly beyond-coverage for the relatively small Fulani population to which, it must be noted Nigeria’s leader belongs, this administration has again put itself squarely in the centre of a most avoidable controversy, besides providing another ammunition to its detractors. …

The allegation by the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari that the Federal Government’s social investment scheme failed “woefully” in Northern Nigeria should be worrisome at this time. This is particularly so, given that this is coming from no less a person than the First Lady herself. Mrs Buhari …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comments on the excruciating poverty in the country to the extent that the situation has made him uncomfortable should not be ignored as a discussion point on poverty reduction strategy in the country he leads at the moment. The president’s remarkable comment on implications of poverty …

Following divergent reports over what the composition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet may look like, it was understands that state Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked to be carried along in the appointment of ministers. The party leaders, who made their position known at a meeting with …

Deltans are still counting loses following a heavy down pour which started on Thursday. The situation was not different everywhere in the state as the flood has rendered some residents of Asaba and its environs homeless. Parts of the busy Okpanam road in Asaba was taken over by the flood, …