The City Reporters The President of United State of America, Barack Obama recently advised African leaders who used the opportunity provided by the just concluded US-African summit to clamour for the exportation of the experimental drugs that cured the American doctors affected with the virus to rather focus on building a strong public infrastructure than […]
Editorial The weekend joint press conference by the Ministries of Petroleum Resources, Power, National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and other stakeholders to address inadequate electricity supply should be seen as a welcome development by all and sundry considering the colossal amount Nigerians spend fueling their generating sets. It was widely […]
Editorial The Nigerian Military –Army, Air force, Navy- as obtainable all over the world, is established upon these primacies: to preserve the nation’s integrity, protect its borders from external invasion and espionage as well as to protect lives and properties of its citizenry. Predicated upon this premise therefore, dereliction from statutory obligation, by military personnel […]
EDITORIAL The insensitivity and arbitrariness of the Mr. Gabriel Suswan led government of Benue state to teachers and pupils of the state is not just another case of government irresponsibility to the society it is mandated under the law to serve and protect, but also a case of government aspiring to deal instead of to […]
The City Reporters Axiomatically, the Boko Haram insurrection which is menacing our national security and interest became insurmountable because of the divisiveness and polarity between our political class. The polemic and rhetoric from some ethnic chauvinists expressing reservations about right of certain tribes to rule no doubt, precipitated this national security crisis that is threatening […]
The City Reporters The recent corruption allegation made by the former England national team manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson against the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in his latest 378-paged memoir titled “MY STORY” should be a worrisome development to every football loving Nigerian who has been taken aback by the inability of the NFF to attract world […]
The City Reporters The Senate President, Mr. David Mark was in the news recently for attempting to express concern for the on-going strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. But his at effort making a newsworthy statement is ill-conceived, poorly constructed, and certainly misdirected. Mark practically reduced the Deacon Gamaliel Onosode’s […]
The City Reporters The news that the Nigerian airspace is unsafe again resonated this week when an IRS plane crash-landed in the early hours of Sunday at the Kaduna International Airport, Kaduna. Earlier on October 4, a Boeing 747 plane belonging to Kabo air with 400 passengers on board crash-landed in Sokoto following an […]
By The City Reporters According to Sir Ian Hamilton, “propaganda as inverted patriotism draws nourishment from the sins of the enemy. If there are no sins, invent them; the aim is to make the enemy appear so great a monster that he forfeits the rights of a human being.” This has been the political strategy […]
Throughout this week, the attention of the world is surely on Nigeria as the nation marks her 53rd independent anniversary. This epoch-making celebration affords politicians and business leaders the opportunities of sending well-crafted messages and adverts to Nigerians at large; and the President of the Federal Republic, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has equally performed the […]