NIGERIA has a long history of Western education. Its first medical doctor, William Broughton Davis graduated in 1858. It had its first television station on October 31, 1959 before some Western countries like Albania and New Zealand. Yet, in July, 2021, its National Assembly voted overwhelmingly that the country must not transmit election results electronically….
By Abiodun Oluwadare “It fills me with pride that President Buhari chose London to come for his medical treatment,” the Mayor of London remarked on his arrival in Lagos on the day the former President Buhari was buried. To the British politician, it was a feather in the cap of London’s health system, a subtle…
No. You can only begin to appreciate the full extent of the harm Governor Lalong has inflicted on the body and soul of Plateau State when you take a look at the larger, more comprehensive, picture of the current circumstances of the Nigerian state. To restrict us to the current cutting down and destruction of…
Bandits have demanded N10 million as ransom for the release of the corpse of their victim, Obadiah Ibrahim. Obadiah was said to have been kidnapped early October in Sabon Gaya, along the Kaduna Abuja road, as he was returning from Abuja to Kaduna. Narrating the family’s ordeal, brother to the victim, Kefas Obadiah, said in…
A former judge of Enugu State High Court, Stanley Nnaji has been killed by gunmen in Enugu, the state capital. He was said to have been shot severally beside the Enugu Diagnostics Centre, by Ebeano Tunnel, after he was blocked and dragged out of his Mercedes Benz Jeep. The Enugu state police commissioner, Mohammed Aliyu…
Operatives of the Nigeria police in Kaduna state have arrested a suspected international car thief. In a statement on Friday, Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the Kaduna state police command, said the suspect, identified as Mubarak Kabiru, was arrested in a hotel in Kaduna following a tip off. Hassan said, “On the 27th of May, 2024,…
