Business
Naira Depreciates By 0.46%
The Naira on Tuesday exchanged at N441.17 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, a depreciation of 0.46per cent, compared with N439.17 to the dollar at the close of business on Oct. 7. […]
Year: 2022
Politics
I Made The Right Decision In Picking Okowa Over Wike – Atiku
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), on the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa on […]
Issues/Policy
The Tories Fear And Loathe The NHS, But They Know They Have Gone Too Far This Time By Polly Toynbee
This is what a collapsing NHS looks like. Each metric is worse than the last, every health professional I meet is stuck for words. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen in my career,” says […]
Issues/Policy
Opinion: When My 9-year-old Asks Why Russia Is Bombing Us – This Is What I Say By Nonna Stefanova
On Monday, Russian missiles scorched a children’s playground in Kyiv that my family calls “our playground,” leaving behind a gaping crater. Later, people gathered to take photos of the rocket’s footprint in the upturned soil, […]
Issues/Policy
Can INEC Conduct Free Presidential Election? By Sonnie Ekwowusi
Lately, the INEC Chairman Prof Mammod Yakubu publicly promised that notwithstanding the gargantuan challenges facing the commission, it would conduct free and fair elections and deliver electoral justice in 2023. “Only the votes cast by […]
News
Why The 2023 Population Census Must Be Postponed By Mike Owhoko
Without prejudice to extent of preparations, has the government genuinely evaluated reasons for dispute and rejection of the previous census results in Nigeria before proceeding to organise another headcount? Results of censuses conducted in 1962, […]
Issues/Policy
‘Japa’: The Trending Time Bomb We Are Ignoring By Israel Ojoko
The number of young Nigerians leaving the country lately is mind-blowing. You could be chilling with a close pal on Tuesday, and boom, he has relocated to the United Kingdom the night after without you […]
Nigeria
Peter Obi: I’m Committed To Gender Balance, Broad Inclusion of Women, Youths
Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour party, says he will be committed to high gender balance and broad inclusion of women and youths if elected. Obi, in a tweet on Tuesday, also […]
Issues/Policy
Nigeria At 62: A People Divided In Oneness, By Majeed Dahiru
More than a century after it was taken away from the African Kingdom of Benin and kept at Jesus College, Cambridge, Okukor, a bronze stature of a cock, finally made its way back home to […]
Issues/Policy
2023 Federal Budget Estimates: Dead On Arrival By Eze Onyekpere
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last Friday presented the 2023 Appropriation Bill and its details to the National Assembly. Budget presentation usually discloses the planned income and expenditure and accompanying fiscal, monetary and […]
Issues/Policy
Flooding In Nigeria, a Danger Foretold By Jide Ojo
It is heartrending and most unfortunate that many states in Nigeria are at present ravaged by floods. Recently, the Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, said the agency had identified 233 local […]
Politics
“Osibajo Team Should Help Jagaban”…Ugo Egbujo
I think Osinbajo should lend his campaign team to Asiwaju. He took things to a new level . And I believe that even in small things country should pursue finesse. The Osinbajo team had class. […]
News
Why Lagos is Building Biggest Mental Health Rehabilitation Home By Florence Onuegbu
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State said that the state government was currently building the biggest mental rehabilitation home in the country to comprehensively address the menace of drug abuse and provide the necessary care […]
Issues/Policy
October Surprise? Why OPEC’s Planned Price Hike Could Pummel Democrats By Marina Hyde
As part of his latest U-turn, misunderstood genius Kwasi Kwarteng is now going to get the Office for Budget Responsibility to cost his debt plan and publish it this month instead of on 23 November. […]
Issues/Policy
Opinion: From Iran to Ukraine, David Is Staring Down Goliath By Frida Ghitis | CNN
On Sunday, almost by accident, two groups of demonstrators came together in London. One was waving Ukrainian flags; the other Iranian flags. When they met, they cheered each other, and chanted, “All together we will […]
Issues/Policy
Paradox of Poverty In The Midst of Plenty By Ayo Oyoze Baje
“While other nations are faced with the challenges of the 21st Century,we are bogged down by the avarice of the elite. Every time we believe we have seen the worst from our country, the shameless, […]
Issues/Policy
Botswana At 57: The Need To Break The Barrier of Insularity By Ade Adefeko
Botswana, a small South African nation of about 2.3million people, got its independence from Britain on September 30, 1966. The above implies that Botswana got its independence from its colonial masters six years after Nigeria, […]
Issues/Policy
Will Peter Obi Win Or Not? By Etim Etim
I have read quite a lot of social media posts debating the possibility of Peter Obi winning the election. Some writers constantly deride Obi’s supporters, arguing that “he does not have what it takes” to […]
Issues/Policy
Why This Year’s Independence Day Celebration Was Different By Azuka Onwuka
Every honest observer would confirm that the 2022 Independence Day celebration of Nigeria was different. In recent years, it was usually marked with a lack of warmth and excitement. In fact, many people would use […]
Issues/Policy
Linus Hagher: Attacks On Ortom For Standing With Wike Baseless
I have read and heard a couple of verbiage against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State for standing with his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike over perceived injustice against the Rivers state helmsman. I want […]