Point One

 Leader of United Kingdom’s Conservative Party with Nigerian roots, Kemi Badenoch, has a fixation with denigrating the country of her ancestry in the manner of that ancient saying about using the left hand contemptuously to point out one’s father’s house. It is a tack she apparently relishes to prove the genuineness of her nativity transplant to her adopted country, the UK. As the first Black woman to lead a major political party in that country, she built her political career on pro-Western advocacy and hardline anti-immigration rhetoric, and running Nigeria down comes handy for her to show the premium she places on her Britishness. Badenoch was at it again early last week with the claim that Nigeria is so strict with citizenship right that she could not transmit the citizenship she inherited from her own parents to her children because of her gender. This, in her narrative, is unlike the UK where access to the right of citizenship by immigrants is far too liberalised, leaving tha...

 There is ubiquity of drug trafficking bids across Nigeria today that suggests the country may have become bogged in a creepy epidemic that has ruinous prospects for national health. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is waging a tough battle intercepting the traffickers. But with hydra-headed attempts at beating the law, you would wonder how many traffickers slipped through the net for every successful interception made by the anti-narcotics agency. Recent reports by the NDLEA about encounters its operatives had with drug runners illustrate the evil ingenuity of the traffickers in their efforts to evade interception. A statement by the agency disclosed how its personnel at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, recovered 23 parcels of Loud – a potent strain of cannabis – weighing 11.3kilograms and hidden in microwaves imported from Thailand. The illicit substance, brought in from Bangkok through Addis Ababa as part of a consolidated cargo on Ethiop...