Editorial

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 […]

Going by suggestions by the Attorney General of the Federation and feelers from the Department of State Services, the Federal Government may have decided to file charges of terrorism and treasonable felony against some aides […]

The dust raised by the Declaration of the Southern Governors to the effect that the next President of the country must come from the south is yet to settle. Opposition from groups in the core […]

Against the doomsday scenario trailing unrestrained borrowing by the Federal Government, plans to de-emphasise debt acquisition next year is lofty on its face value; it will become commendable if the government can walk its talk. […]

Recurring issues of poor investigation and prosecution that have negatively impacted the judicial process and the system of justice administration could not have been raised at a more auspicious time than when the Chief Justice […]

The new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mahmood Abubakar is understandably ambitious with his promise to prioritise the controversial National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP). The proposed plan can make a difference between life […]

THE well-documented plight of Nigerian children in the North-East has been further highlighted by the latest report of the United Nations Children’s Fund. According to the UN agency, over 300,000 children lost their lives in […]

The new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mahmood Abubakar is understandably ambitious with his promise to prioritise the controversial National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP). The proposed plan can make a difference between life […]

THE nagging issue of the poor remuneration of judges resurfaced recently at the maiden edition of the Court of Appeal’s 2021/2022 new legal year ceremony in Abuja when the President of the Court of Appeal, […]

THAT Nigeria is passing through one of the most difficult times in its chequered 61 years after independence is not in doubt. Most bizarrely, however, the authorities have often pretended that all is well with […]

UNFAZED by public dismay and the admonition of experts, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), with the enthusiastic support of the National Assembly, is plunging Nigeria deeper into debt at a reckless rate. His […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was frontal in his submission when he stated that most of the problems associated with Nigeria’s education sector was the responsibility of state governments. His assertion should be seen as a […]