PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's decision to nominate the four recently-replaced armed service chiefs as ambassadorial candidates has attracted widespread condemnation from political commentators as it is it seen as an attempt to shield them from prosecution.

FORMER finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has moved a step closer to being confirmed as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after her sole opponent Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea withdrew from the contest.

SUPER Eagles skipper Ahmed Musa is set to sign a contract with English Premier league side West Bromwich Albion (WBA) over the coming week after him impressed manager Sam Allardyce with his fitness in training.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Today is February 5 and for me it is significant in that it was on this day in 1945 that America’s General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila after the US recaptured the Philippines from Japan. By February 1945, it was clear that the Allies were going to win the war both in Europe and Asia. Thinking ahead, they began immediate work on a decommissioning and rehabilitation plan

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have been left embarrassed after the son of the former Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT) chairman standing trial for corruption jumped bail and fled to the US.

KANO State government has banned an Islamic cleric Sheikh Abduljabar Nasir-Kabara from practising as an imam after finding him guilty of inciteful preaching that could lead to a breach of the peace.

TENSION is mounting in Kwara State as the arrival of Fulani herdsmen who fled from the southwest geo-political zone in response to the growing resentment at their presence have created an atmosphere of fear as they move northwards.

SECESSIONIST group the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has warned ex-president Dr Goodluck Jonathan and All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu not to run for president in 2023 because it is the turn of Ndigbo.

NIGERIAN government officials have been warned by the leaders of armed bandit militia groups that they risk another major insurgency similar to the Boko Haram uprising if they are also under-estimated.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) When I look at the current collapse in global production figures, the last time we witnessed anything similar was during World War Two. In Nigeria today, we are kind of where Europe was in 1940 when industrial output slumped, there was food rationing, Home Guards and partisan militias needed to be formed to combat the threat of insecurity and the future looked very bleak. However, by 1943, the tables had been turned and industrial output was at an unprecedented high