Editorial

For all the gains that the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has achieved by mounting safety guidelines against the coronavirus pandemic, its reluctance to policy review is unscientific and rather rash on the Nigerian public. […]

A price increase of about 30 per cent announced lately on electricity meters countrywide is not the best thing that can happen to the power sector which is already characterised by inefficiency in distribution, extortion […]

NIGERIA’S status as one of the world’s top natural gas producers is not reflected tangibly in the domestic market. Since the beginning of 2021, local cooking gas consumers have endured escalating prices induced by the […]

The contention over the skewed federalism that the Nigerian state system is will have no end unless the clarion call for restructuring is achieved. The latest in the unending controversy over fiscal control of the […]

THE ongoing frantic efforts to dissuade the Academic Staff Union of Universities from embarking on yet another strike have put parents and students on edge across the country. The union had issued a 21-day ultimatum […]

NIGERIA’S disgraceful scorecard on the plight of the girl-child was re-enacted with a new report from Save the Children International that 48 per cent of girls in the northern part of the country are married […]

THE ignoble attempt by the authorities to cover up the October 20, 2020 slaughtering of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos was recently exposed in the report of the Lagos State […]

The current squabbles between the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on the one hand; and State Governors and local government councils on the other, over plan to deduct $419 million from the accounts […]

The tragedy of the plight of the girl-child in Nigeria can be directly traced to the selfishness and uncaring attitude of politicians and public office holders who have the means to shield their daughters from […]

IT is not yet time for the sub-national governments to celebrate despite the minor uptick in their first half-year revenue report of 2021 just released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The NBS reports that […]

The spate of disasters that seems to be defining Lagos by the day and in recent times is not unconnected to the abject state of the city which the state government, led by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, […]

Leaders of countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have just slammed fresh sanctions against military juntas in Mali and Guinea, serving a strong notice that coups were no longer tolerated in […]

When the programme was announced with funfair last year, through the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) was enthusiastically received by large numbers of Nigerians who saw this initiative […]

Actions by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, on claims by consultants that the 36 state governments owe them $418 million have continued to reverberate in the public space in the past […]

UNDETERRED by the country’s precarious financial position, the Federal Government has retained its addiction to waste, luxuries, and slothfulness in the 2022 budget proposals. Snippets of the spending plan currently being considered by the National […]

Grand finale of the Anambra governorship poll showed the reign of good reasoning with some valuable lessons for the country’s foundering democracy. Much more than the governor-elect and his victorious ruling party in the state, […]

AN important political landmark, the Anambra State 2021 governorship election, has been conducted, won, and lost. The ballot, won by Charles Soludo of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, was described as a litmus test […]

PREVIOUSLY discussed in hushed tones, the idea of state police in Nigeria is gaining more currency. Accordingly, a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has joined the bandwagon of those advocating the decentralisation of policing in the […]

The reported attack by yet unknown gunmen on the residence of Prof. Banji Akintoye, leader of self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, is ominous. It is not a matter that […]