Editorial

VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo has reignited the debate about the failure of the government to sweep away the systemic sleaze in our national life. At the 2018 Nigerian Economic Summit, Osinbajo yet again decried the endemic […]

THE National Economic Council recently made a crucial decision in its proposal to federal and state governments to allocate 15 per cent of their annual budgets to education in furtherance of a state of emergency […]

ANOTHER bloody clash between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, otherwise known as Shiites, occurred recently in Abuja during a protest march against the continued detention of their leader, Ibrahim […]

Lamentations by senior officials on the revenue crisis facing the country demonstrate the continued failure of the Muhammadu Buhari government to make the right choices and lead the economy to the path of impactful growth. […]

People have been screaming about the exit of HSBC and UBS as sign of bad economics. That’s a huge lie. I will try to explain it in a very simple way. HSBC and UBS were […]

Though Akwa Ibom State was created over two decades ago, it barely came to national and international consciousness under former Governor Godswill Akpabio. This was largely due to the fact that despite what many saw […]

The Senate recently asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend ATM card maintenance charges deducted from customers. This followed outcry by customers that these charges are arbitrary and illicit. The action by the […]

After many months of negotiation, pleas and threats, Organised Labour and the Federal Government appear to have reached a truce on minimum wage. If the figures emanating from sources close to the negotiations are real, […]

When push comes to shove, when it comes down to the last possible outcome of the present Nigerian political impasse; if I had no other choice but to choose between Buhari and Atiku, there is […]

AMID the despair and angst among the country’s populace, fresh statistics from the World Poverty Clock (WPC) created by the Vienna, Austria-based global data lab has offered yet another confirmation of Nigeria’s ignoble status as […]

MEMBERS of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shiites, had a deadly encounter with security agencies last week. The confrontation which lasted for three consecutive days left in its wake deaths, blood […]

THEY had left families, friends and their country with a singular purpose of eking out better living opportunities for themselves. They are Nigerians; they wanted an economy that works, a government that prioritises the welfare […]

ANOTHER bloody clash between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, otherwise known as Shiites, occurred recently in Abuja during a protest march against the continued detention of their leader, Ibrahim […]

Due largely to effective foreign exchange management policies introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria notably the Investors and Exporters window helped by recovery in crude oil price and output, some degree of stability has […]