Editorial

INTERMITTENT and eerily so familiar, the plains of Plateau are drenched in blood again after another gruesome tragedy engulfed the North-Central state. Just about a week after rampaging Fulani gunmen-herders slaughtered scores of people in […]

For many residents of Lagos, traffic robbery is so common that news of it hardly seizes attention. This is a pity, for the real and potential victims; a shame on the three levels of government […]

IN the past few weeks, the living conditions of Nigerians have been steadily worsening. Things have been so bad, even as the ravaging effects of the  coronavirus pandemic take their toll. The economy has nosedived […]

MEMBERS of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) are on their fourth strike since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It is incredulous that an industrial dispute has occurred and is recurring […]

NIGERIA’S shoddy handling of preventable and curable diseases continues to expose its ineffective leadership and institutional rot. One of these debilitating diseases is malaria fever. The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed again that the […]

The manifestation of Nigeria’s crisis of the state is by no means-ending soon. The reasons are not too far to seek: they include impunity in the running of the affairs of the country, gross abuse […]

Nigeria, undeniably, is at war with itself and delicately mangled between brutal terrorists in forests and inept leadership at the peak. Nowhere perhaps is the war more evident than in the Nigerian Middle Belt, particularly […]

WITH over 27,000 infections and 653 deaths recorded in 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory in the past seven months, Nigeria has now slipped into a cholera epidemic. In Jigawa, over 100 persons have […]

Two recent incidents of assault on journalists pontificate growing concern about increased hazards being faced by Nigerian journalists in the course of performing their official duties recognized by the constitution. One, the Department of the […]

NIGERIAN officials displayed their characteristic disdain for the media by accrediting only 10 media houses to cover the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is facing charges bordering […]

AS the year’s rainy season intensifies, the effects are being felt globally. As seen in China to Germany and parts of the United States, deadly downpours pounded cities everywhere, submerging vehicles, homes and killing hundreds […]

It is just as well, and about time too, that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has, according to presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, approved that police escort and guard services to private individuals and corporations be […]

Going by rising inflation particularly of food items, high unemployment and increasing poverty in Nigeria, it is hardly surprising that a debate on the country’s population has been simmering lately. The debate is healthy for […]

The industrial pond had become so poisoned that what ought to be routine practice, donned the garb of news oddity: the Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) agreement that a strike […]

The housing shortage in Nigeria has ironically given rise to a boom for the private sector property operators. However, because it is a capital intensive venture, houses built by the investors are often not affordable […]

AS violence, state capture and separatist agitation threaten to spiral out of control, influential voices are warning afresh that unless immediate steps are taken, Nigeria could break up with unforeseen consequences. In a perceptive analysis […]

The World Bank’s June 2021 77-page Nigeria Development Update instructs in particular federal economic policy formulators and implementors that “rising prices alone – even without incorporating the direct impact of COVID-19 on welfare – pushed […]

THE continued loss of an average of 400,000 barrels of petroleum per day through theft and pipeline vandalism again exposes the dysfunction and institutional weakness of the Nigerian state. Given the parlous state of public […]

Indications that a huge metering gap still exists despite the recent launch of the mass metering programme of electricity consumers is worrisome for its inconvenience and exploitative impact on hapless consumers. The situation clearly signposts […]