Safiya I. Dantiye

Every parent wants his children to be good, though not every child turns out into a model one. However parents have different ways of dealing with stubborn or deviant children. In this case teenagers that don’t behave well or keep bad friends, skip going to school or take up drugs among others. READ ALSO Atiku […]

Demanding money by some government officials to recruit people or to give them ‘offer’ in Nigerian parlance is certainly not new, but whenever you hear that it actually happened to someone you know it makes one so sad that even an optimist may pause and think if indeed Nigeria would get out of its multiple […]

Even though it is universal not to speak ill of the dead, however, there are salient issues and a lot to be said about the death of a commissioner in Borno State last Saturday in a Guest House. He was found dead while a woman beside him was unconscious but she also died at the […]

International Day against Violence and Bullying at School including Cyberbullying was declared by UNESCO member states on the first Thursday of November which fell yesterday on the 2nd. Under the theme, ‘No place for fear: Ending school violence for better mental health and learning,’ it aimed to, “highlight the strong links between school violence and […]

The murder of Dr Fumilola Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State two weeks ago, was tragic enough without it being plotted by a 14-year-old girl she employed as a house girl. The late Dr Adefolalu was also a pastor at the Voice of Mercy Church Minna. Meanwhile, her three […]

In our society culture and even religion demand that you help your relations, especially those in dire need. Not only them, you are expected to help anybody in need if you could afford to. Only that as a friend once told me, you cannot save the world when she helped a woman in the hospital […]

At the heat of medical doctors moving abroad a member of the National Assembly said he felt that there was not patriotism on the part of the doctors. However when the same person defended the N165m car for each member of the National Assembly the question of patriotism keeps nagging at me. As it is […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended the phased disconnection of Globacom from MTN network for a period of 21 days. This is contained in a statement issued by NCC Director of Public Affairs, Dr Reuben Muoka on Thursday in Abuja. READ ALSO 74 candidates for February by-elections AFCON: Stunning results and Sadiq’s injury saga […]

The much-awaited end to 2023 election court cases finally ended for many states in the governorship election last Friday, 12/1/2024. It was a tortuous journey from election tribunal to Appeal Court up to the Supreme Court, taking almost a year from the day the governors had been sworn into office on May/29/2023. Winners and losers […]

The reality on ground is that economic hardship is getting worse since the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he announced it in his inauguration speech on May 29 last year, whereby queues were formed at petrol stations instantly. Then the depreciation of the naira to the dollar adds to the […]