Editorial

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 […]

Dear Mr. President, We read from the media the admonition to religious and traditional rulers at a recent interfaith conference in Abuja. You advised them to refrain from partisan politics so as not to lose […]

Nigerian women who are not impressed by a marginal reference to women participation in politics in Nigeria the other day by President Muhammadu Buhari at the United Nations are threatening to boycott the 2019 general […]

They keep piling it on. The bad news about our country, that is. We are the most corrupt; our elections are the most expensive with the poorest returns on investments; our country has displaced India […]

WHILE malnutrition constitutes a serious setback to the socio-economic development of a nation, sustainable growth in Nigeria cannot be achieved without prioritised efforts to scale-up and sustain investment for nutrition. Malnutrition is responsible for susceptibility […]

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, was on target recently when she ordered regulators to identify and sanction individuals that ran Skye Bank Plc aground. This is reassuring news, as many were confounded when, in announcing […]

While the killing of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi saddens hearts, the way leaders of the world have reacted and audibly spoken against it warms hearts. Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. It […]

WITH the emergence of candidates of all the 91 registered political parties at all levels of electoral contest, the stage is set for the formal flag-off of the campaigns and other electioneering activities. This is […]

AFTER decades of apathy that allowed defiant oil companies to get away with massive environmental degradation through rampant gas flaring, the Federal Government now appears to be taking some interest in stricter regulation of oil […]

AFTER many days of shameless denials and equivocation, Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2. Since then, the world has been in a state […]

THE unfolding drama at the National Health Insurance Scheme exposes anew the latest rancid, abjectly weak and dubious approach to the anti-graft war under President Muhammadu Buhari. There, the Executive Secretary, Usman Yusuf, inebriated by […]

The Islamic State of West Africa Province should not be allowed to recruit the 13.2 million out-of-school children in Nigeria who could serve as breeding criminals for kidnapping and armed robbery. The insurgents are desperate […]

As the Office of the Citizen is becoming increasingly proactive about accountability and transparency in the governance process, it is also important for citizens and those in authorities to note the correlation between diligent tax […]

The recent annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank held in Bali, Indonesia earlier in October 2018 came up with reports that are quite worrisome for keen watchers of developments in the Nigerian […]

The statistics are simply scary, sordid and scandalous; looking at Nigeria’s Human Development Index, HDI, vis-a-vis its enormous natural endowments. For instance, that the world’s sixth largest producer of crude oil, with a maximum capacity […]

Faced with a Catch 22 situation, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo acquitted himself creditably – he ate his words and went for the lesser of two evils. In military parlance, he went for the soft target. By […]