Editorial
Debt Ache | TheNation
•It is not only about balancing, but more about fiscal discipline It is not for nothing that the nation’s debt profile has remained a major issue of focus in recent times. On the one hand […]
Year: 2018
Editorial
Buratai’s Worry | TheNation
Again, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has lamented what he called inadequate funding of the army. The COAS spoke when he received members of the Senate and House of Representatives’ Joint […]
Editorial
Tramadol Epidemic | TheNation
•How did 12 containers of this drug get into the country? The news that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered 12 containers with tramadol tablets at the nation’s port is one scary […]
Editorial
2019 Poll: Why Buhari Must Continue, By Tinubu
Buhari, Oshiomhole, governors in Osun as Oyetola takes over from Aregbesola At a packed stadium, All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday announced the resolution of the progressives to support continuity of […]
News
Successful Privatisation Myth: The making of Business-Friendly Politician By Tabia Princewill
IN the 1980s and 1990s, in tandem with the disastrous structural adjustment policies (a major cause of global poverty), privatization stunted government’s capacity to deliver affordable services to a generation of individuals who couldn’t afford […]
Issues/Policy
Who’s Politicising The Killing of Nigerian Soldiers? | Vanguard
IT was the day formal campaign into elective positions in the 2019 elections commenced and incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, had seized the moment to begin in earnest a campaign that he and his subordinates had […]
CRIME
EFCC Raids Astrax Autos, Seizes 29 Cars
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos office, on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, seized a total of 29 exotic cars during a raid on the office of a Lagos-based car dealer, Astrax Auto Shop. […]
Issues/Policy
Apathy In Nigeria’s Democracy, By Dele Agekameh
With a section of society not showing up at the polls at all and another section in serious danger of selling their voting rights for porridge, political outcomes will likely continue to be poor at […]
Editorial
Death And Consumer Goods | ThisDayLive
There is a compelling need to enlighten farmers and retailers on how to preserve food The recent panic over beans, a popular staple food, has deepened the urgent need for the education of farmers and […]
Issues/Policy
Bukola Saraki’s Fading Political Stars By Peter Claver Oparah
For the heavily-stained Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the fading lights of his charmed political life seems to have come on and this is no laughing matter for the rambunctious politician whose bullish political stock has […]
Issues/Policy
Beyond Tolerance: Deconstructing Belief By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
As 2019 approaches and all our discourse has been taken over by the political mess we have found ourselves since independence. But there may yet be time for the more pertinent issue of why we […]
Law
The Nigerian Left and The Constitution By Edwin Madunagu
For some time in the early part of Nigeria’s Second Republic (1979-1983), several groups in the Nigerian Left debated what the movement’s relationship with the opposition People’s Redemption Party (PRP) should be. Several Leftists had […]
Government
Who Will Be Nigeria’s Next Mistake In 2019? By Banji Ojewale
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last—Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer and politician. If we go by what our politicians (the major presidential candidates notably) […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari’s Body Double Suspicion That Won’t Go Away
Beware of what you consume on social media. That space is a theatre of the absurd. From matters of no consequence to serious issues, when trends break on social media, one is guaranteed an inventive […]
Editorial
Again, To Make Democracy Safe in Nigeria | Guardian (NG)
In a democratising social formation, the need to entrench democratic principles in practice cannot be over-emphasised. It becomes more compelling in times of electoral turnover and more so for a society that is anomic, afflicted […]
Issues/Policy
ANALYSIS: How Government Failure Renders Nigeria’s Health Act ‘Ineffective’ (2) | PremiumTimes
(This is the second part in a series to reivew the National Health Act. Read the first part here.) The failure by government to implement existing laws and policies is one of the major problems of […]
Editorial
Keep Military Strictly Out of Politics | Punch
THE country’s most senior generals stumbled into an avoidable political storm recently by appearing at the public launch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. Reactions to media photographs of the military service chiefs were […]
Issues/Policy
2019s: Between Political Accountability And Electoral Integrity By Jide Ojo
As we count down to Nigeria’s next general election which is 80 days away, I took it upon myself to unravel the mystery of the country’s electoral albatross and found out that legally, the framers […]
Issues/Policy
Realigning The Mix Between Income And Consumption Taxes By Uche Uwaleke
Even with crude oil price selling above the budget benchmark of $51 per barrel, the greatest risk to the 2018 budget is the significant shortfall in government actual receipts. As disclosed in the recently published […]
Issues/Policy
On The March Again | Punch
In a jingle that he produced ahead of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, a very close friend and confidant, but now the late Architect Sola Olugbesan, had said that Nigeria was “On the march […]