Editorial

FOR some time now, there has been palpable worry in official circles over Nigeria’s rising population figures. For instance, last week, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, speaking at […]

AGAIN at the recently-concluded World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings in Indonesia, the IMF warned Nigeria about its rising debt profile. It advised the country not to be misled by the rising oil prices […]

Nigeria lost its soul a long time ago. My engagement with Nigeria, the country of my birth, got concretised in the 1990s which was the last decade of military dictatorship. That engagement was a painful […]

For three years running the fate of the leader of the Shiites, El Zakzaky, had been incarcerated by the federal government. He, like others, has remained in detention for alleged acts of terrorism and breach […]

The Number One, single most important, Office in Nigeria is that of the President of the Federal Republic. By whatever nomenclature, the President is the Head of State as well as the head of the […]

Funding federal government budget deficits has posed recurring challenges to successive governments in the country with regard to appropriate funding strategy to adopt. Over the years, there has been greater inclination to borrowing to meet […]

Relying on the massive infrastructure development it had admittedly recorded in terms of roads, urban renewal and mega schools, and considering that the incumbent Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is a street-wise, grassroots mobiliser, it was […]

Just when one thought that President Muhammadu Buhari’s school certificate scandal could end up like the good, old nursery rhyme, “For want of a nail,” something dramatic and Nollywood-like happened. The West African Examination Council, […]

A directive the other day by the Lagos State House of Assembly to local council authorities in the state to re-engage the Private Sector Partnership (PSP) operators to take over from their competitor and successor, […]

Men who start families later in life should be aware of the potential health risks to their children, according to US doctors who found that babies born to older fathers tend to have more medical […]

Estate agents, high street solicitors and accountants who facilitate about £100bn of money-laundering in the UK but are failing to report suspicious activity face a crackdown under a government drive against economic crime. Security minister […]

INCREDIBLY, the Federal Government is defaulting in the implementation of the new pension scheme, with its failure to remit a total of N67 billion retirees’ accrued pension rights to their Pension Fund Administrators. As a […]

“Among the areas of attention are the issue of out-of-school children, promotion of adult literacy and special needs education, revival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Technical, Vocational Education and Training, strengthening of basic education, […]

Towards the end of 2015, I was privileged to be invited to one of several Presidential Town Hall meetings organised by the then fledgling Buhari administration. It was billed for the International Airport Hotel, Ikeja, […]

With the passing of Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih, the Iyasele of Uromi, to the great beyond on Sunday, the 28th of October, 2018, it could rightly be said, without any iota of equivocation, that a […]

As politicians and other stakeholders make permutations towards the general elections in 2019, nothing has become as unclear and dreadful as what fortunes may befall the country in the days ahead. And the reasons for […]

Unlike what obtains in advanced democracies where civilisation and sanity are never in short supplies, especially as reflected in conduct of their politicians and other elective office holders, it is very uncommon for losers in […]

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 […]