Editorial

THE resignation last week of Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria is not enough to douse the raging crisis in the judiciary. His exit was preceded by weighty allegations of maladministration and financial […]

THE Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, and the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), are messing around with sports. They are intrusive, coercive and meddlesome in sports administration. After dabbling unsuccessfully in basketball, the duo […]

TOO much blood is flowing in Nigeria. A new tally by the Nigerian Security Tracker, run by the Council on Foreign Relations, showed that at least 3,478 people were killed across the country from December […]

The humanitarian gesture of citizen Chibuzor Chinyere in donating a mini estate and a car to Garba Emmanuel, the father of Deborah Samuel, who was killed in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy, is a deep manifestation […]

Sir: The fears, distresses that followed the contagious epidemic – Coronavirus which practically crumbled the world economy cannot be forgotten in a hurry. The pandemic led to the shutdown of all businesses, schools, religious worship […]

AN outcry by affected communities on the activities of illegal miners in Osun and Ekiti states calls for concern. Illegal miners have reportedly invaded large tracts of land, chasing away farmers, degrading the soil and […]

A former Minister of Internal Affairs, General Abdulkadir Dambazau’s recent advice to the Federal Government, to take decisive steps to mop up arms and drugs from Fulani “herdsmen” strikes the right chord amidst the senseless […]

NIGERIA’S unsteady democracy will face another crucial test on Saturday when the people of Ekiti State in the South-West vote to elect a new governor among the 16 candidates vying for the office. The new […]

GLOBAL attention was riveted afresh on the menace of tobacco recently with activities during and after the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on May 31 with the theme, ‘Tobacco: Threat to Our Environment.’ With a tobacco […]

THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, are stubbornly pressing ahead with their plan to establish another potentially profligate enterprise – Nigeria Air. To this effect, the reality […]

As victims of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo massacre got mass burial few days back, the worrisome state of increasing and widespread insecurity leaves no one in doubt that the country is under siege. Also, […]

Barring an extension of time by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the major political parties today rest their choices of presidential running mates, hopefully bringing down the tension and heated debates surrounding the religious […]

Pitiably, the nation’s duty bearers are still lamenting the plight of Nigerian children, instead of presenting positive score cards! This is particularly shameful given that it is 58 years after the country started celebrating Children’s […]

For the umpteenth time, the epileptic national grid collapsed over the weekend again, resulting in blackout in most parts of the country. A terse statement from the Ministry of Power attributed the collapse to “the […]

Despite the frenetic state of the election primaries, the sporadic violence erupting in many parts of the country and the resultant feeling of insecurity being expressed by most Nigerians have lent credence to the thinking […]

THE recent disclosure by the Independent National Electoral Commission that 20 million Permanent Voter Cards, a mandatory requirement for eligibility to exercise the voting franchise during an election, have not been collected by applicants is […]

THERE is trouble in the land. Gun-toting kidnappers are running riot across the country without respect for rank or calling. Recently, on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Abia State, they stunned the country by abducting the […]

Reportedly a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emefiele’s supporters, including an association of farmers indebted to the CBN, had raised the N100 million required to obtain the relevant expression of interest […]

LIKE the apocalyptic doomsday, recent predictions by some prominent figures on the imminent spread of terrorism nationwide are coming to pass with devastating rapidity. The terrorist attacks in quick succession on the Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna Highway and […]