BAT 2023

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on behalf of Nigerian workers celebrates and congratulates all Nigerians on the 25th Anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. President Muhammadu Buhari has already declared June 12 as a national holiday in commemoration of our democracy. He has also conferred the highest honour in the land to the […]

I consider it a great privilege to count Shina Peters, the Afro-Juju maestro, who turns 60 this week, as one of my friends and brothers. Dele Momodu has already penned a short tribute in his honour and a committee of friends is planning a day of tributes to coincide with his birthday on May 30. […]

In my last article, titled “Achebe versus Obasanjo, Danjuma and Agbese”, I argued that bad political leadership is primarily responsible for the failed state of Nigeria, not corruption as many would like us believe. The duty of this article is to present some of the generally approved qualities of good political leadership and apply them […]

A civil society organisation, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has called for a “full scale and wide-ranging investigations” into the administrations of former Nigerian leaders and bring all those who breached public trust to account. Reacting to the public spat between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the organisation […]

The Philistines are not happy. Yes, they are angry and belching hot airs from frustration. They are angry at President Muhammadu Buhari for not attending to their ancient wild and bestial desires and continuing the neglect of our infrastructures. They are angry at the President who neither eats nor allows them to eat. They are […]

Paper Presentation by: Alh. Ibrahim Shehu Birma 17th May, 2018 Background The 1st Crisis between herdsmen and farmers was recorded was in 1948. The 2nd was in 1951 this led to the migration of Fulanin Bororo to Sudan. In 1955 there was a clash/genocide which led to the Sudanese Government issuing a quit notice to […]

The nationwide ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held on Saturday, May 5 2015 was largely marred by crises, violence and accusations and counter -accusations of attempts to illicitly influence its outcome. Apart from a few states like Katsina where the exercise was relatively peaceful, in several others – Anambra, Imo, Kaduna, Delta, […]

By This piece is a memo to the Nigerian Left. In an ideal situation, on account of the importance I attach to the subject, the document would have appeared, first, as an internal memo to an appropriate organ of the movement. For the same reason of importance, it would not have stopped at the organ […]

The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of oil blocks in the country. These include Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL), Oil Mining Licence (OML) and Oil Exploration Licence (OEL), which allow the awardees, local and foreign, to explore […]

Even after repeated calls by various persons on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to respect his supposed pastoral calling and stop his nasty habit of lying, pastor Osinbajo refuses to heed these calls and continues to spew falsehood forgetting or perhaps not caring that the devil is the father of all liars. Nigerians may […]

Information about crimes perpetrated by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria or Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt have been circulating the media for years. Some of the atrocities, for example, the abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok, have triggered international outcry. While the Nigerian Government continues to address the threat posed by Boko Haram, it is […]

The US government’s 2017 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria must be a source of concern to President Buhari and the country in general. The 48-page executive summary of the report, which was released recently by the country’s State Department (the federal executive department that advises the President and represents the US in […]