Editorial

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 […]

As insecurity continues to ravage the education sector — the latest assault being the attack on the University of Abuja and the kidnap of lecturers and children — the plight of teachers countrywide is grave […]

BLOODSHED by Nigeria Customs Service officers is worsening around the country. In another invasion of the civilian population, Customs officers have just sacked Fagbohun village in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. […]

In a country facing one of its worst fiscal crises ever, it beats imagination that the president and his handlers would find the temerity to award humongous votes to feed their imperial hubris. The prodigal […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) raids of drug joints in Lagos, Abuja, Benue and other parts of the country and arrest of hundreds of drug addicts and traffickers underscores the endemic state that […]

The concern of the Lagos State Government over building collapse and related issues of building plans and permits is never in doubt, going by the government’s prompt responses to relevant incidents on the subject. But […]

Today marks the first anniversary of the demonstration of rare courage and people power that shook Nigeria like never before. And whatever those sporadic shootings at unarmed protesters in Lekki meant on that October 20, […]

By its original mandate, the Justice Doris Okuwobi panel of inquiry into the #EndSARS protest in Lagos State is supposed to conclude its hearing today. If the panel is able to meet that deadline, it […]

ON a day dedicated globally to mitigate the prevalence of poverty, the lofty hope that Nigerians might benefit from the ideals behind the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty remains faint. As of 2019, […]

A coalition of concerned Civil Society Organisations, Defend Lagos, has cautioned youths, individuals and groups warming up to mark the first year anniversary of #EndSARs protests, to have a rethink and not allow a repeat […]