Editorial

IT is both appalling and shameful to hear so soon that some commercial banks are already aiding and abetting the hoarding and illegal sales of the newly redesigned Naira notes. What a country we belong! […]

Retirement, which ordinarily is a phase in life redolent with a sense of fulfilment and happiness in other parts of the world, is a nightmare in Nigeria. Workers in the public services in the states […]

The Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was clearly speaking the minds of majority of Nigerians when it recently called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba and the Chairman/Chief […]

Do presidential candidates need Chatham House to speak to Nigerians abroad who, by the way, have no voting rights? Of course not. However, because of their connections to international interests that can help improve the […]

There is doubt that the Federal Government has successfully used the whistle-blowing police to fight endemic and systemic corrupt practices in both public and private sectors in Nigeria. In 2017, the then Acting Chairman, Economic […]

In a situation whereby 700 ophthalmologists are saddled with responsibility to care for the eyes of more than 200 million Nigerians, it is hardly surprising that over 4.25 million adults in Nigeria, aged 40 and […]

Alarm by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that some politicians have been buying up PVCs and financially inducing unsuspecting voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers ahead of the 2023 general elections should no […]

With the year 2023 still looked upon as ‘new’ amid global unrest that lingers from last year, it is worthwhile for the world as a whole to explore ways and means of reversing the misfortune […]

THE Lagos State Attorney-General, Moyosore Onigbanjo, on Friday arraigned Drambi Vandi, 53, the Assistant Superintendent of Police accused of fatally shooting a pregnant lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, at a checkpoint in Ajah, Lagos. The unusually swift […]

DAYS after his passing at the ripe age of 82, the accolades are still flowing for Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known by his mononym, Pelé, and deservedly so. In his eventful life, which ended […]

EMBOLDENED by the absence of a determined push-back from the federal security forces, armed Fulani herdsmen and militants are carving a blood-soaked path across the country. From the North-Central, Southern Kaduna in the North-West, and […]

Failure of the eligible customer policy of the power sector to impact positively on supply and usage in the country, five years after it was introduced, is not only frustrating, it has emphatically underscored the […]

As a leader presiding over an aspiring mega city, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu should take more than a cursory interest in the recent strike embarked upon by commercial bus drivers in the state, who […]

Looking at the three key areas to which the administration claims are its major focus, namely the economy, national security and fight against corruption, the story is not different when compared against what it met […]

Without a doubt, the collapse of a seven-storey building on Victoria Island, Lagos and another three-storey building at the Beirut GSM market in the Kano metropolis, have added to the avoidable waste of human lives […]

When the news of the assault of Inspector Teju Moses, an officer orderly attached to a big madam broke, police IG Usman Alkali was quick to order the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators. Kudos […]

WITH the fire of terrorism and banditry literarily enveloping them, the Northern Nigerian elite have finally unanimously bowed to reality by backing the long-running clamour for state policing. Rising from a joint meeting, the Northern […]

RECURRING violent boundary clashes across the country demand urgent solutions to achieve lasting peace. A report that 676 persons were killed in various communal and boundary disputes in Nigeria between January 2018 and August 2022 […]

ALMOST daily, reports of traffic accidents on Nigeria’s roads with resulting casualties assail the public. Fatalities have reached an alarming level, requiring the relevant authorities to find lasting solutions. This is an urgent task for […]

As the opening of political campaign approaches in two days time (September 28, 2022), there is ‘a motivational must’ to comment again on the necessity for issues-based campaign by all aspirants to political office. This […]