Editorial

DR. B ISI OLAWUNMI Diaspora Nigerians, estimated at 15 million, have come into focus in recent years, particularly with the advent of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency on May 29, 2015 and the appointment of Mrs. […]

When people announce that the Nigerian problem is one of leadership, they fail to go the full distance and identify who is the leader at the moment. In 1999-2007 it was Obasanjo. Now, it is […]

Rauf Aregbesola, the out-going two-term governor of Osun State, said a few days ago that he did not collect any salaries in his eight years in office. I could not hail him for his public-spiritedness […]

I once had dinner at the home of Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Prize Winner. I had gone to New York with Journalists from Asia, South America and Africa to the Campus of Columbia University […]

A recent incident involving an 18-year-old man who has been arrested by the police in Edo State for allegedly killing his mother and slept with the corps for money ritual purposes has again brought to […]

It is campaign time again and the nation shall soon be inundated with promises and counter-promises, realistic and unrealistic, but as we have consistently demonstrated on this page, no Nigerian political party has the obligation […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sounded the gong indicating that electioneering campaigns can begin. Even before the election manager did so the supporters’ groups were already on the streets campaigning illegally. But it […]

Jubilations over the proposed National Minimum Wage of N30, 000 by the embattled organized labour on behalf of Nigerian workers, seem to have ended abruptly following discordant tunes over the amount. Expectedly, while the Ayuba […]

DESPITE signing the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law late on June 2, after its presentation to the parliament on November 7, 2017, the President has yet to forward the 2019 Appropriation Bill to the National […]

It will be a disservice to those on whose toil and sweat the school was built and flourished to date, if their names are not mentioned in this piece. Indeed, many of the institution’s helmsmen, […]

A warning by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Nigeria among other sub-Saharan African countries should pay attention to their rising debt profile and diversify their economies to avoid another looming economic crisis should not […]

Alas, the whistle has been blown for the race for the 2019 General Elections to begin. November 18 is exactly 90 days to the commencement of the first rounds of the 2019 polls; it thus […]

IT is disgraceful that the deadline for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has been shifted to 2021. Work resumed this year, but Julius Berger, the contractor handling the Lagos-Sagamu intersection end of the highway, […]

MOTORISTS using the old number plate format are facing a clampdown by the Federal Road Safety Corps across the country. The agency is now enforcing the National Road Traffic Regulations 2012 on the use of […]

As the 2019 general elections campaign season kicks off, politicians may be upbeat about a time of noise, speeches and promises, the citizens are justifiably concerned about safety of lives, property and even the nation’s […]

ON Sunday, the 2019 general election campaigns began officially. Ordinarily, this should not call for any concern. But if the primaries organised by the major political parties are any indication, there is ample cause for […]

About the time the President, Muhammadu Buhari, in far away France was querying and mocking the clamour for restructuring Nigeria, what it meant and attributing the strident call to laziness, his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s recent lamentation over the prevailing bloodletting and insecurity in the country was cold comfort to Nigerians. His vivid observation of the self-destructive impact of violence and its abhorrence by major faiths also […]