Eid-ul-Fitr 2023 is one of the most important festivals for Muslims all over the globe. Today marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The entire month, the devotees observe fast from dusk to dawn. The month-long fasting, which is considered to be one the sternest one, ends on the eve of Eid after…
By Don Stephen As someone who has spent the most part of my adult life in Enugu, it gives me immense joy seeing the scale of work ongoing across the Enugu metropolis and how the city’s original masterplan is gradually being restored. Recently, I drove through the New Market-Miliken Hill axis and was pleased to…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. The newly appointed Officers are:S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS1 Mallam Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser2 Maj. Gen. C.G Musa Chief of Defence Staff3 Maj….
The Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has denied the allegations that he is working against the ambition of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The governor’s reaction is coming following reports that he ordered members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Anambra to work against Obi at the polls. According to the…
The Emir of Daura, Katsina State, Alhaji Umar Farouk, has explained why the emirate decided to confer a title on President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son, Yusuf.On Saturday, Yusuf will be turbaned as the Talban Daura and District Head of Kwasarawa, however, many Nigerians questioned the rationale behind this. Speaking at his palace during the turbaning…
It is exactly 73 years ago today since the British Police shot dead 21 defenceless Igbo workers of Enugu coal/Iva Valley Miners for no reason. Their crime was that they demanded for a pay rise. 21 died instantly, 37 were severely injured. Today at New Market Roundabout Enugu, an everlasting monument can still be seen…
The executive governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum was honoured as Democracy Governor of the Year 2024 at a public lecture marking the 25th anniversary of Nigeria’s democracy, held at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja on May 29, 2024. The event, titled “Democracy in Africa: The Legacy of Abdulsalami Abubakar” in the…
By Femi Ibirogba (Head, Agro-Economy); Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head, South West Bureau), Rotimi Agboluaje (Ibadan); Gbenga Akinfenwa (Lagos); Adegbuyi Ayodele (Ado Ekiti), Timothy Agbor (Osogbo) Lawrence Njoku (Enugu); Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri); Anietie Akpan, Agosi Todo (Calabar); Ann Godwin (Port Harcourt), Inem Akpansoh (Uyo). ‘If tiny Israel could feed self, why not South East?’ Stakeholders in agriculture…
This xenophobia is not only applied against the Hausa-Fulani northerners or the Yoruba south-westerns but also their closest cousins, the Niger-Deltans. This approach is based on three exclusionist strategies of Igbonomics. First, the market and product, and indeed the value-chain must strictly remain an Igbo affair. Second, other regions’ markets, their products and value-chains must be proportionately…
Hypocricy is Nigerian second name – a childhood friend told me over the last weekend, that my support for Peter Obi is due to tribalism. In response, I told him we should do a very simple test of tribalism, that we should both list out all the presidential candidates we supported since 1999 and see…
