Editorial

By giving assent to 35 of the 44 passed bills seeking amendments to the 1999 Constitution, President Muhammadu Buhari has undoubtedly embarked on the journey to enthrone federalism to the polity; and Nigerians may as […]

Good Friday is a day of great significance in the Christian religion. From the earliest times, Christians have always commemorated the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth on this day. They believe that in […]

The Guardian had warned that the bold plan by the CBN to redesign and issue new naira notes from mid-December was wrongheaded and ill-timed. The CBN, in presenting the new currency plan, had leveraged the […]

Following the claims and statements made by the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed on the recent outcome of the presidential election on an interview programme on Channels Television, the Nigeria […]

A report highlighting Africa’s status as having the lowest energy consumption per capita among the world’s continents should remind the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that Nigeria’s energy sector remains chaotic and urgently needs […]

AS the dust settles after the general elections, the minimal influence of women in Nigeria’s politics, and by extension, other spheres of national life, is glaring. In 2023, 378 women ran for Senate and House […]

NIGERIA’S perennial failure to reverse critical negative human development indices was underlined recently by UNICEF. It agonised over the lack of access of two-thirds of the country’s population to potable water, translating to 133 million […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari approaches the end of his tenure, he as well as the incoming president cannot afford to disregard reports from credible international agencies that Nigeria faces existential threats to its survival from […]

EVIDENCE emerges regularly that governance at the sub-national level in Nigeria is particularly dismal and marked by lack of accountability. The situation is ironic. While monthly statutory receipts from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee to […]

Therefore, no matter the criticism against it, the Supreme Court should not descend into the public arena to join issues with its critics, as it has just done. At all times, it must maintain its […]

The public reactions that greeted the call by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for cancellation of the February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections in areas where violence was recorded and where the processes […]

The escalating cases of domestic child abuse of which children have sometimes been faced with near death situations are sad spectacles of man’s inhumanity to man. Virtually every week, gory images of abused children fill […]

ELECTION of any sort is an intensely emotive issue. This is rightly so, because elections throw up leaders whose tenures can either improve the quality of lives of many people or lead to their destitution […]

AGAINST the backdrop of our past experiences, it is important for us, both as individuals and as a country, to look back, down the road we have travelled and take stocks. As a country, we […]

The regular spate of automobile accidents on Nigerian roads and resultant avoidable loss of precious lives should be a matter of great concern to all well-meaning Nigerians. And as the institution charged with providing welfare […]

The unprecedented killing in daylight of President of Ejemekwuru Customary Court in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nnamemeka Ugboma while he was performing his duty as a judge, is dastardly and constitutes one […]

As the nation awaits the outcome of the presidential election held last Saturday, the last may not have been heard about the legal tussle for the governorship of Osun State, following the decision of Governor […]

Plans by the Federal Government to hike taxes both in the form of excise duty and new rates, spell nothing but disaster for an economy struggling to get by even though economic decisions appear to […]

Having spent billions of dollars and lost no less than N8 trillion to rent seekers who exploit the multiple rates in the foreign exchange (FX) market to rip off the country within three years between […]

As the global community rallies round to provide succor for the people of Turkey and Syria, following the devastating and unprecedented earthquake that hit them, it is a pity that Nigeria, with her size and […]