Editorial

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 […]

Not a few believe that Nigeria is being governed on the whims and caprices of state actors who have the least respect for the rule of law but in surplus of expression of ethnic bigotry […]

Beyond all reasonable doubt, Lauretta Onochie, senior special assistant (New Media) to President Muhammadu Buhari since October 2016 should never have been nominated at all as a commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). […]

The increasing trend of inflation in Nigeria and the consequent impoverishment of the Nigerian populace have been very devastating to virtually every Nigerian. The inflation figure which stood at 17.93 per cent in May 2021 […]

The restlessness that has greeted the passage of the much-talked about Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly (NASS), the other day, has clearly counteracted the desired goodwill that the proposed law should ordinarily […]

Against the backdrop of a poorly equipped and struggling fire service, the federal and state governments across the country should be concerned over the increasing incidents of fire outbreaks and the attendant massive loss of […]

The sorry state of Nigeria’s electricity power supply cannot be more graphically illustrated than in the recent lamentations of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) and other stakeholders. Their faultless conclusion is that development and its […]