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 […]
Until now, various officials of the Buhari administration, especially the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, had claimed that Nigeria’s rice importation had dropped, and that in fact, we had produced so much rice locally that […]
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 […]
DANGER is perpetually lurking on Nigeria’s notorious highways. During the commemoration of the 2018 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Monday, the Federal Road Safety Commission stated that 1,054 people died in […]
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 […]
I just received a text requesting for comment from one newspaper correspondent. He wrote about ‘rumours’ that the government is compelling all its ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to reduce their budgets for 2019 and […]
This is the last day of my first trip to Africa as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. I spent most of my 32-year career as an American Diplomat on this continent, and […]
AFTER a long drawn battle, the organised labour suspended its proposed mass action over the demand for a N30,000 minimum wage as President Muhammadu Buhari warmly received the report of the Tripartite Committee of the […]
ACADEMIC activities have been ruptured again in the country’s universities since last week, as the Academic Staff Union of Universities resumed its strike over epileptic funding. The ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, said the resort to […]
AS the country awaits the final word on the renegotiated new national minimum wage and public service pay rise, stakeholders should ponder the likely full implications. After the usual sparring between the organised labour and […]
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