BAT 2023

Senator Danjuma La’ah, the Senator representing the good people of Southern Kaduna continued. He said that according to the Leadership Newspaper of 4th December, 2016 under the headline: “Foreigners Behind Southern Kaduna Massacre”, Governor Nasir El-Rufai stated that some of them (Killer Fulani) were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal, adding, “Many of these […]

The recent Governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states threw up a number of issues about the politics of succession in Nigeria. In Edo state, you would think it was the then incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole seeking re-election. He campaigned more than the candidate. He danced, waved the broom, his party’s symbol, far more enthusiastically […]

We wish to register our dismay at the trenchant, libellous and condemnatory response of the members of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) to a harmless observation by the Acting General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress that it would have been good if NLC and TUC were  made members of the Committee. Leading […]

The judgement by the court of appeal reinstating Mr Eyitayo Jegede SAN as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State has sent the people of the state on wild jubilation. Before the judgement from the court of appeal, political activities in Ondo State had assumed […]

Most Nigerians will commend the performance, so far, of the honourable minister since the beginning of his tenure as the minister for works, housing and power and his antecedent in the transformation that took place in Lagos state when he held sway as governor. The pace set, aligning it with what his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola […]

”Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted”– Napoleon Bonaparte Some years ago, one of the presenters of the BBC’s ‘Heart and Soul’ programme sought to know whether geniuses are born or made? While not fully answering the question, at the hindmost part of the documentary, the presenter stated that, […]Read More

Your Excellency, Mr. President, permit me to use this open letter as an appropriate channel to convey this message to you for the obvious reason of reliability. For fear of being misunderstood, I should state from the onset that I have been your hardened fan since the 80-90s while I was a student and contributing […]

Most Nigerians were either bemused or celebrated with the people of Benin on the coronation of their most recent Oba of Benin. Benin was one of Nigeria’s most iconic and prestigious empires especially from the 1400 AD. It is fitting that the new Oba chose Ewuare as his royal name as Ewuare the first was […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) once again lived up to its billing of being used by the current administration for the sinister purposes of silencing the opposition under the guise of fighting corruption. As expected and as earlier stated in his press statement, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode had already raised the alarmthat he was […]

The NFF and its partners, totally reject and condemn in strong terms the comments made by Nigeria’s President Mohammad Buhari on Friday the 14th of October 2016 in response to his wife’s interview on Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Mrs. Aisha Buhari, during the said interview publicly expressed discontent with Mr. President […]

First Lady of a country or a state is a concept extremely African. Often, the world is assailed with the bogus appellation of the “First Lady” of Ghana, Ethiopia, Togo or Nigeria and the rest. In contrast, it is something of a taboo to hear of anything in the semblance of something like “The First […]

I will start this report by referencing a statement by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwais on corrupt judges;  “A corrupt judge is more harmful to the society than a man who runs amok with a dagger in a crowded street. The latter can be restrained physically. But a corrupt judge deliberately […]