Ahead of the May 29 inauguration of a new administration in Nigeria, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been agog with activities, with transit areas unusually busy and security tighter than before. The week-long programme has seen the runway of the Abuja airport crowded with inbound flights from states across Nigeria, as well as other countries. Dignitaries from the United States, United Kingdom, Liberia, India, China, Sierra Leone, among other countries are expected to attend the ceremony. Convoys of vehicles conveying dignitaries are not new to the nation’s capital, but these have doubled in the last five days. More checkpoints…
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Two suspected car snatchers knew they had met an Uber driver from hell when they attempted to snatch his car from him. The suspects thought that the Uber driver would turn lily-livered immediately he knew they were robbers, but the Uber driver’s action shocked the thieves. Rather than start crawling and begging for his life, the Uber driver damned the consequences and decided to go down fighting. He realised he could not tackle the two car snatchers and immediately latched onto one of them like a leech and absolutely refused to let go. While struggling to keep hold of the…
AS a child I was taught that the road to heaven is narrow. But that seems to be the teachings of the ancients; now across the world, shepherds are letting their flocks know that there are shortcuts, or even flights to heaven. Perhaps the old depended on stars to guide them on the road to heaven while the modern are using Google maps and satellite imaging. The old idea that the road to heaven is narrow might have been reinforced by Matthew who advised: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that…
Data from the Home Office of the United Kingdom on Thursday revealed that 66,796 dependant visas were issued to families of Nigerian students who obtained study visas from March 2022 to March 2023. This is a 146.1 per cent increase from the 27,137 dependants who migrated to the UK from March 2021 to March 2022. The data, which was released on Thursday, comes amidst pledges from successive Conservative governments to drastically reduce the numbers of people moving to the UK, particularly in the wake of Brexit – a rupture that was touted by its proponents as a necessary step for…
Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has denied supporting anti-security activities against the Mgbuoshimini community in Obio-Akpor council of Rivers State. The denial followed a report, titled: “Rivers community seeks termination of contracts over alleged killings,” published on May 4. NAOC, in a statement, said it adheres to local content principles and observes due diligence in line with major international standards while issuing contracts to bidders from the community. Recall that members and stakeholders of Mgbuoshimini community, Rumueme Kingdom had written to the General Manager of the company to terminate surveillance and cluster contracts and payment of some contractors following a…
Queen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen’s travels to the US, following her death last year. They show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch’s safety during her visits, worried about IRA threats. The assassination threat was made to a police officer in San Francisco. According to the file, an officer who frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco warned federal agents about a call from a man he had…
Dr. Bolaji Akinola’s: “Hadiza’s Book of 99 Errors,” syndicated in the media last week, is an unmitigated let-down from a man of the author’s status and standing in the maritime sector. Although he exposed his mission by describing the book as “Hadiza Bala Usman’s polemic” at the beginning of his piece, one expected more from a self-confessed industry stakeholder like this media consultant.Akinola, who holds a master’s degree in Transport Management, is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Shipping. He is also a Fellow of the Certified Institute of Shipping of Nigeria. He also consults for leading maritime companies…
The police in the Federal Capital (FCT) on Friday announced traffic diversions and fireworks in Abuja ahead of the May 29 presidential inauguration of Bola Tinubu, slated to hold at Eagle Square. The diversion is contained in a statement by a police spokeswoman in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, on Friday. The diversion points are Goodluck Jonathan Expressway by Court of Appeal, Deeper Life junction, Bond/Total filling station, POWA/FCDA junction, Finance junction by ECOWAS/Women Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other diversion points are Eagle Square (Phase I and Phase II), Kur Muhammad Way/National Mosque, Abia House, NITEL junction by…
Universities in the United Kingdom have rejected the new immigration policy that would no longer allow international students bring family members with them from 2024. In a statement on Tuesday, the UK International (UUK), a body of universities across the UK, said that the policy was a threat to the country’s economy and requested the government to consider the issues. The new policy, which was intended to tame the influx of immigrants, had stated that international students would no longer be able to bring family members with them starting in 2024 and that international students would be stopped from switching…
The title of this short piece is not exactly original. The word “Strategic Humility” was first coined brilliantly and diplomatically deployed by Dr Henry Kissinger, former American Secretary of State, who marked his centenary (100 years) birthday a few days ago, in his recent book “LEADERSHIP”. In that book, Kissinger did an analysis of six heads of state in the 20th century who he considered as great leaders. They are France’s Charles De Gaulle, Germany’s Conrad Adreneur, America’s Richard Nixon, Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. I may not necessarily agree with three of Kissinger’s…
