Muhammad Bashir
Background Built decades ago, the Idah Local Water Treatment Plant’s aging infrastructure and neglect have left residents wondering if portable water will ever flow again from their taps in order for them to drink clean…
Cheke Emmanuel
In a bid to boost food security and food availability in a practical way, the Nasarawa State government has embarked on the cultivation of 10,000 hectares of rice farm to demonstrate its avowed commitment to…
SUCCESS NWOGU
The lifting of petrol from the 650,000 barrels per day capacity Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical on Sunday, September 15, 2024 gave birth to a new chapter in the annals of petrol distribution in Nigeria. It…
Daniel Atori
The dusty roads of Wushishi in Niger State carry with them a burden that weigh heavily on women like Asmau Musa. As a mother of four children, each of her pregnancies has been accompanied by…
Yemi Olakitan
The term xenophobia is usually used to describe intolerance and fear of foreign immigrants by indigenous people of a particular country, while Afrophobia is the intolerance and fear of African immigrants. According to various reports,…
Emmanuel Ifeanyi
Early school life Primary school education is described as the foundation and bedrock of education that if gotten wrong will be extremely difficult to correct. Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, has many public…
Yemi Olakitan
The deprivation of rights of women in various ways has often gone unnoticed and sometimes trivialised in many parts of the world. Women often suffer forced marriages, genital mutilation, gender discrimination, domestic violence, rape and…
Sola Adeyemo
History Before 1976 when the late Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola, proposed Chief Gbadamosi Akanbi Adebimpe (1893-1977), to be elevated to the status of crown-wearing oba, the position of the Olubadan…
Yemi Olakitan
When the Supreme Court affirmed the financial autonomy of Nigeria’s 774 local governments, many celebrated the decision while some criticised it, describing it as ‘mere distraction’ compared to the more serious problems of inflation and…
Cephas Iorhemen
Background Benue State has since the dawn of democracy in 1999 remained the weeping baby of the federation for diverse reasons. On the political front, the state has had its fair share of issues, with…
