Editorial
TheNation: Bad Optics
IN about all moral contexts, justice gets seen to be done only when an adjudicator is even-handed in the measures dealt to the contending parties. No matter the justification, it is bad optics when one […]
Month: November 2020
Government
Mo Ibrahim Index And The Damning Indictment On Governance In Nigeria By Joel Popoola
Sixty per cent of 10 Africans live in a country where governance has improved since 2010. Nigerians are not amongst them. The very best thing we can say about Nigeria’s performance in a new international […]
Issues/Policy
Finding The Missing Link With Tsangaya Schools By Gambo Dori
If there is any social issue that buffeted the minds of many governors in the northern states, it could be none other than what to do with tsangaya schools. The tsangaya schools are populated by […]
News
#EndSARS Protest: Was There Massacre In Lekki?
How many people died during the Lekki Toll Gate ‘shooting?’ Government has maintained that nobody died. But, armchair critics, social media influencers, some right activists, political foes and foreign organisations have insisted that there were […]
News
‘We Need Good Leaders To Make Nigeria Great’
Course Commandant, Nigerian Defence Academy, Major-General Muktar Garba says Nigeria will be a better place if it has good leaders. He said this in Abuja at the weekend when the NDA presented a book, ‘War, […]
Issues/Policy
El-Rufai, Zazzau Emirate, And Injustice By Dr Nasir Aminu
Every human alive should be grateful to live in this twenty-first century—a century that has freed humans from slavery, tyranny, and all other forms of medieval imperfections. We should also be grateful to our democratic […]
Government
‘No More 35%’ — FG To Slash Levy On Imported Cars To 5% | TheCable
The federal government has concluded plans to slash the levy to be paid on imported cars from 35 percent to five percent. This is contained in the draft bill of the 2020 finance bill to […]
News
Second Recession: Buhari Has Failed Nigeria – PDP By Kazeem Ugbodaga
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to accept their failure and allow competent, transparent and honest hands to effectively manage the economy. The party said […]
Issues/Policy
The Recurring Issue of Unclaimed Dividends By Victor Ogiemwonyi
Once again, the issue of unclaimed dividends has arisen. This time, the Government wants to create a “Trust Fund” to take over the huge unclaimed dividends sitting with Nigerian Company Registrars. The value is currently […]
Issues/Policy
Accelerating The Journey of Women Into Power By Patrick Dele Cole
It was always there, but I didn’t appreciate it: Love and more important appreciation. It is possible to love without appreciation; especially if one is coming from and within the fog of entitlement. She was […]
Issues/Policy
In Defence of Oba Akiolu By Rasheed Ojikutu
October 20, 2020, was a day to remember for Lagos and its traditional institutions as hoodlums and thugs invaded the 350 years old Iga Idungaran, the official residence of the incumbent Oba of Lagos, Oba […]
Motoring
Local Constraints May Stall Electric Vehicle Revolution By Benjamin Alade
Although Nigeria may have recorded a milestone in unveiling the first locally assembled electric car, the innovation may be stalled by infrastructural constraints. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, last week unveiled an electric vehicle (EV), […]
News
LASUCOM Approved To Conduct Test
THE Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) has been given the nod to conduct COVID-19 test by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Its Acting Provost, Prof. Abiodun Adewuya, said this at the […]
News
Jimoh lbrahim, NICON Tackle AMCON By Robert Egbe
NICON Investment and billionaire businessman Jimoh lbrahim are set to approach the court for an order quashing the interim injunction obtained by AMCON against them. AMCON had in a statement last week said it had […]
Education
Quota Admission: A Noble Idea Abused | Guardian (NG)
Reports that Nigerians are questioning the continual application of the quota system in the admission of candidates into universities are for good reasons. A federal policy of nearly three decades intended to redress the imbalance […]
Issues/Policy
#EndSARS: The Opportunity Must Not Be Lost
We applaud the #EndSARS movement for its consistency in demanding an end to police brutality and championing reform of the Nigeria Police – a demand which has been trending since 2017. The most recent peaceful […]
Issues/Policy
#EndSARS-Watch: FG’s Attack On CNN And Journalism By Martins Oloja
Before the (constituted) authorities in Abuja release their curious strategy for ‘sanctioning’ the Cable News Network (CNN) as they have promised for the network’s investigative report on the conundrum surrounding the October 20-10-2020 alleged military […]
Issues/Policy
What Wheels Will Do For Us By Kole Omotoso
If anyone has ever wondered what is in store for the future of human beings, all they have to do is look around them. What is around us that has never been put to use. […]
Issues/Policy
Dissecting Senator Bukola Saraki’s Homecoming To Kwara By Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki breezed into Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State, on Saturday November 14. The day coincided with the eight-year anniversary of the death of his father, Senator Olusola Saraki. Senator […]
Issues/Policy
Rawlings’ Checkered Legacy By Minabere Ibelema
When I checked my overnight text messages the other morning, one of the messages jolted me. It was a text from a friend informing me that Ghana’s former President, Jerry Rawlings, has died. I was […]