Opinion: Saki Residents Cry Out: Street Lights Fail, Safety Concerns Mount In a community where darkness has become the norm, residents are sounding the alarm about the perilous state of their street lights. For months, the streets of Saki have been plunged into darkness, leaving residents to navigate treacherous paths Continue Reading

“How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished” is a quotation from the Bible, specifically 2 Samuel 1:27. And so it was the end of an era for the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, who threw in the towel after two Continue Reading

It is alarming that we now live in a country of titles and honours without any passion for the people’s plight. While the Presidency basks in the euphoria of titles, St.Lucia, our people are being killed at home. A nation where children cannot go to school because some of the Continue Reading

Nigeria’s complex, complicated security challenges, which have seen the northwest corner ravaged by trans-border bandits, farming communities in its north-central parts pillaged by killer herdsmen and its north east axis over run by Boko Haram insurgents has reduced Africa’s most populous country to the continent’s largest human slaughter slab. Fifteen Continue Reading

According to OECD statistics of Official Development Assistance, the US is the biggest foreign aid donor, distributing $48bn in 2021, with about a third of that sum going to sub-Saharan Africa. Over the 2023/2024 financial year, the US said it had donated almost $3.7bn. It’s hard to say what conclusions Continue Reading