Editorial

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 […]

If we judge by the statistics offered by the Federal Ministry of Health recently nearly 60 million Nigerians suffer from mental health challenges. In a country where there is profound ignorance about mental health this […]

Prince Charles, the heir apparent to the British Crown in the United Kingdom, was in Nigeria and called at the Aso Villa to discuss issues of national interest like Fulani herders conflicts with farmers and […]

Nigeria has always perched on the horns of dilemma. When Lord Lugard, acting at the behest of the British, cobbled the many ethnic nationalities into what became Nigeria in 1914 he did so thinking that […]

The rise in cases of tuberculosis (TB), and its resistant strain, is posing serious global health challenges. That tuberculosis has become a major public health concern, especially in developing countries where it is most prevalent, […]

Nigeria’s political troubles and the vexed issue of her disunity date back to our pre-independence era. We should remember that we had the 1953 Kano riot during which the northern people produced the nine point […]

The foremost source of value and competitive benefit in the knowledge economy is human and intellectual capital. It is said that Nigeria, with a population of over 180 million people, has the hidden capacity to […]

Mr. Allison Akene Ayida, a foremost Nigerian “Renowned Sage, Quintessential Public Servant, Corporate Governance Connoisseur and Author” died October 11, 2018 after a grave illness. Of course, this is no longer news -especially since he […]

More attention should be paid to the learning, teaching and usage of indigenous languages With our national preference for English as the official language of communication, the learning, teaching and use of many indigenous languages […]

It should be curiously disappointing that despite noisy investment nurtured by renewed interest of the Federal Government on the issue of ease of doing business, Nigeria still scored low in the latest World Bank report […]