Editorial
TheNation: Security Votes
The use to which public funds are put in Nigeria has generated controversy over the years. One notorious financial outlay that has not gone down well with Nigerians is the security vote, which is the […]
Year: 2022
Editorial
TheNation: Making Shylocks Shy
The senate may mean well, but its proposal that landlords should not impose rents for two years or even a year, puts the cart before the horse. Yet we must understand where the problem is […]
Editorial
TheNation: English For Fraud
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is an international English language proficiency test for all those desirous of working, studying or migrating to some other English-speaking countries. It tests the ability of students to […]
News
Passengers May Suffer Delays As FAAN Expands Lagos Airport Terminal By Wasilat Azeez
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has unveiled its plan to expand the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Lagos airport. The agency said it would expand the Zulu wing of the terminal as […]
Issues/Policy
Know The Law: Bypassing Electricity Meter Could Get You Jailed For Five Years By Ayodele Oluwafemi
The trend of bypassing, tampering with electricity meters and cables is not alien to Nigerians. Stakeholders in the electricity sector have continuously bemoaned persistent energy theft and meter bypass, which they say result in loss […]
Issues/Policy
Bola Tinubu vs Osinbajo By Sly Edaghese
Bola Tinubu! He goes by different names! It depends on your closeness to him! His close friends call him Asiwaju! His business associates call him BAT, an acronym for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while his political […]
Issues/Policy
Super Eagles: Learning Not To Despair In Defeat By Tony Afejuku
Is it easy for anyone to de-populate the pains or series of pains he or she nurses or carries inside him or her anytime one is confronted with the concert of forces by which one’s […]
Issues/Policy
The Humanitarian Works of Adedoyin ‘AyRubber’ Ayomide Samuel By HurriKane Andrew
According to Albert Schweitzer, “The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” The aforementioned is so apt for top multi-media broadcaster, on-air […]
Business
Dangote Cement, 17 Stocks Lead NGX N280 Billion Loss By Helen Oji
Transactions on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) closed on a downward note yesterday, occasioned by losses in shares of Dangote cement and 17 companies, causing market capitalisation to decline by N280 billion. At the close […]
Travel
Kabe, Sow… Female Chefs Holding Their Own In Culinary World By Maria Diamond
From logical to the ludicrous, statistics have shown that there are more male chefs than women. While some nutritional analysts suggest that financiers prefer to invest in male chefs instead of their female counterparts, others […]
News
Security Lapses At Lagos Airport By Wole Oyebade
Security breaches at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos are really not new. But with insiders beginning to threaten its safety and security, and daylight robbery now a new normal on the restricted airside, stakeholders […]
News
Iran Condemns ‘Destabilising’ Attack On Baghdad Airport
Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned a rocket attack against Baghdad airport that took place the previous day as an act that seeks to “destabilise” Iraq. Six rockets were fired Friday at the Iraqi capital’s […]
Issues/Policy
Understanding Sulaiman-Ibrahim’s Philosophy On IDPs By Greg Odogwu
The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally-Displaced Persons, Mrs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, just disclosed that the country is working to review its migration policy. Considering that we host about 73,000 refugees […]
Issues/Policy
The Two ‘Magodo Gates’ By Lekan Sote
Please pardon what seems to be an attempt to go back in time to the two most disgraceful events that occurred in Magodo Estate in the closing days of 2021. It’s a necessary audit. Nigerians—and […]
Issues/Policy
2023: Certificate Is Not Only What Qualifies By Abimbola Adelakun
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, recently stated the need to review the minimum educational requirements for intending officeholders. At the 52nd convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos, where he delivered the […]
Issues/Policy
Five Ways To Improve Our Society By Collins C. Ofurum
At the beginning of the year, a Rolling Stone column written by a former Occupy Wall Street organiser, Jesse A. Myerson, listed and explained five economic reforms our generation should fight for today. His ideas included a […]
Issues/Policy
Who Should Be President In 2023 By Niran Adedokun
To balk under pressure and again avoid the planned removal of the subsidy on petrol, as the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), did on Tuesday, is one reason Nigerians must understand what they need […]
Editorial
Punch: Resurgence of Polio Cases Worrisome
AFTER a brief period of a clean bill of health, a fresh incidence of over 300 cases of the Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Type 2, also known as the CVDPV2, in many states of the […]
News
No Dollar Spent On Cement Import In Seven Years —Emefiele
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said Nigeria has not spent dollars to import cement in the last seven years. A statement from the CBN said he spoke at […]
Issues/Policy
Investment Decisions: Doing More With Our Savings – Part 2 By Bolutife Oluwadele
This is a policy taken on the life of a person known as a policy owner for an amount known as principal assured for a specified period to pay the sum assured to the policyholder […]