Editorial

NIGERIA’S economic crisis has turned every middling commentator into an expert on economic issues. Among the most voluble are some politicians, opinion moulders and traditional rulers from the North, who virtually slept through Muhammadu Buhari’s […]

THE vexing 12-year wait to restructure, rationalise, relocate, and scrap the inflated ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government is finally over. President Bola Tinubu pressed the button for the downsizing on Monday when […]

NIGERIA’S power sector is in a quagmire; it has been so for long. Apart from incessant grid collapse, generation, transmission, and distribution are also plagued by shortfalls and financing. The cycle completes with subsidy payment […]

It can be described as a tragedy of error, even though there are conflicting accounts of what happened. According to one version, a door carelessly left unlocked at the lions’ enclosure in the zoo resulted […]

AS the consensus and clamour for state police grows across the country, it is opportune to address the fears being expressed by some stakeholders against the decentralisation of civil security in Nigeria. Essentially, there is […]

On April 11, 2014, the Nigerian Supreme Court gave a landmark unanimous verdict confirming that the Igbo customary law of inheritance, ‘‘which excludes female children from inheriting the property of their deceased fathers was in […]

Escapees from Nigeria’s correctional centres in the last two years, who have not been recaptured, were reported to be about 4,000. This is alarming. Also disturbing is that this could be a conservative estimate. Nigerian […]

PLANS by the Federal Government to mitigate the high cost of food by establishing a commodity board are self-contradictory. Essentially, Vice-President Kashim Shettima said that the government would establish the National Commodity Board to determine […]

NIGERIA is under a security siege. The rapine is being fuelled by huge arms in wrong hands, resulting in massive killings, kidnappings, violent cult activities and terrorism. The extremists are emboldened by their access to […]

NINE months after President Bola Tinubu ended petrol subsidies, Nigerians are none the wiser on the outcome of that decision. While the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited insist that subsidy is […]

Implementation of the student loan scheme of the Federal Government should start immediately, as promised by the President Bola Tinubu administration, to prevent a situation where more indigent students are unable to further or complete […]

The granting of tax waivers to selected businesses in certain sectors of the economy has come under some close scrutiny by many Nigerians. There have been questions as to whether these waivers are in the […]

The crisis in the health sector has assumed an alarming proportion amidst the growing exodus of qualified medical personnel from Nigeria. Recent reports of facility shut down by leading health institutions across the country call […]

At a time the country is struggling with finances to keep government afloat, when all departments and agencies are charged to exercise utmost prudence, that sum of N89 billion demanded by the Independent National Electoral […]

As the Federal Government considers applications for 270 new private universities to be established in the country, there is need to look beyond just granting the requests, with a view to ensuring that the standard […]

The report that thousands of personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) are being owed relocation allowance by their employer, the Federal Government, is disheartening. But it is even more than that: as a bad […]

The excitement that greeted the awards of best African footballers to Nigeria on four fronts was appropriately directed. For one reason, it has been 24 years since Kanu Nwankwo got the best footballer award, despite […]

Henry Alfred Kissinger, the renowned United States diplomat, passed on last month, leaving the world with mixed reactions borne out of diverse characteristics of his person. Kissinger, a political scientist, geopolitical consultant, politician, and author […]

The admonition lately given to 23 new High Court judges by no less a personality than the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, could not have come at a more auspicious time. The judges need […]

In its transitional activities, the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration recalled Nigerian ambassadors from their mission in early September. In the communication conveyed by the Foreign Ministry, the envoys were “expected to commence the process of […]