Editorial

As it did in 2014, with stomach infrastructure, Ekiti, with its out-of-season gubernatorial election cycle, has set a new trend for elections with ‘see and buy’. These new names for an old practice where voters […]

With two major outbreaks in 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak four years after a similar outbreak occurred in West Africa. The current outbreak — in DRC’s North […]

As we collectively work towards entrenching the principles and consolidating the practice of democracy in Nigeria, it is expedient to reiterate the need for the political class to respect the rule of law, which is […]

THE recent seizure of about N1.12 billion worth of gold about to be smuggled abroad grabbed media headlines. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in intercepting the illegal gold shipment that was being smuggled through […]

As usual, the government has handled the saga of the executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf, with spectacular lack of tact, or common sense. A timeline of the debacle reads […]

When Udom Emmanuel took the oath of office as Akwa Ibom State Governor on May 29, 2015, he knew that he was not just carrying out a ceremonial ritual that the occasion demanded. He fully […]

Irrational impulses are not surprising in the stress and tension that characterise a demented society. In an atmosphere of violence, reason is sometimes abandoned and humanitarian principles forgotten. The inflamed passions of the time lead […]

Politics as we practise it in Nigeria is in a class of its own. Our politics is so laced with bitterness, vengeance and acrimony so much so that politicians go to any length to seek […]

The Brookings Institution, a Washington based Economic think-tank, published a report earlier this year, titled “The start of a new poverty narrative.” The report was primarily based on the work of three experts associated with […]

As political contenders deploy their arsenal ahead of the 2019 elections, security challenges, some of which threaten the very existence of the Nigerian union, should be at the centre of political discourse again. Kaduna State […]

I maintain that Chief Falae has paid his dues in rendering distinguished service to Nigeria. As a civil servant, he was a first-class planning officer and economic wizard who rose to the post of a […]

The “Trial of Brother Jero” Part 2. That is it. Fayose vs Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It is already packing more twists and turns than a poorly written Nollywood script. We expected the movie. […]

NIGERIA’s lamentable wealth distribution record has continued to provoke perplexing responses. She is an oil producing country that should by any standard, be considered wealthy, but the wealth is so inequitably distributed that most of […]

That the authorities at all levels in the country are debating the number of out-of-school children in the country without strategy to deal with the reproach at this time speaks volumes about the importance they […]

Classical historians are quick to point to the heartbeat of politics when spins are thrown up for political discourse. It is a settled fact, politics is organic with biological growth pattern – stunted, normal or […]

I am a strong advocate for the unity of churches in Nigeria. This much I have highlighted in many forums in recent times. I am of the opinion that the church has a critical role […]

BY IK MUO I wish to start with an apology to everybody in general and to nobody in particular. The apology is because I am exhuming something that had been settled last year but we […]

One sure way of gauging a people’s humanity and compassion is how they treat their senior citizens and the recent verification exercise of former Nigeria Airways workers once again highlighted, very forcefully, the pain and […]

Again, the organised labour, the federal and state governments are at loggerheads over the new national minimum wage. The issue has been on the table in the last two years, with the Federal Government promising […]

The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) Boboye Oyeyemi’s hint the other day that the agency was consideringa stiffer penalty for those who use their phones while driving, appears […]