Editorial

Nigerians celebrate June 12 tomorrow, both as the now official Democracy Day and in remembrance of Chief Moshood Abiola who won the presidential election of June 12, 1993, adjudged to be the best election in […]

The proposal by the Senate to enact a law banning payment of ransom to kidnappers and making it a criminal offence for those connected with such payments is obviously in tandem with international best practice […]

TO correct its chronic faults, the National Assembly claims it is in the final stages of amending the 1999 Constitution. Accordingly, the NASS says it aims to repeal the offending provisions encumbering the country’s democracy […]

Given the propensity of Nigerians for foreign travel and the inadequate official response or capacity to procure the international passports seamlessly, reports of irregularities in getting passports at special (private) centres set up by government […]

SIX months after the commencement of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Africa has been left behind in the race for doses due to poverty and poor planning caused by decades of bad leadership. The continent, […]

Widespread banditry and other criminalities terrorising our corporate existence, right in the face of a helpless central police system would, again, validate our resolve that true federalism is the answer to questions of insecurity among […]

STRIPPED of cant, the diversion of a commercial aircraft and subsequent arrest of two passengers: a journalist and his Russian girlfriend, by Belarus, was a flagrant act of lawlessness. In what the United States government […]

Protracted insecurity across regions and states readily calls out the governors that oversee jurisdiction where crimes and criminals now freely interface. Amid the validity of blaming the centre for things that go wrong in local […]

ENFEEBLED by decades of neglect, Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit continues to aggravate. A new report estimates that the country requires $3 trillion over the next three decades to upgrade its infrastructure to optimal level. That is […]

Now that the World Bank Group has said that the multilateral institution is focused on supporting the federal government’s bid to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty; an opportunity has emerged for President Muhammadu […]

AFTER 11 harrowing days of sustained Israeli military aerial offensive on the Gaza Strip and rockets fired by Hamas militias on Israeli civilian targets, a ceasefire was finally agreed upon by the warring parties on […]

Nigerians grope today into the 22nd anniversary of the 4th Republic democratic rule wondering whether the hype about civil rule is worth it, no thanks to betrayal of their hope for a life more abundant […]

This year’s Children’s Day has been formally observed, but critical issues affecting the welfare of children in Nigeria linger, begging for urgent attention. Children are the future of nations. Sadly in Nigeria, that future is […]

THE recent declaration by the Federal Ministry of Interior that from June 1, 2021, the issuance of passports to Nigerians would take six weeks, is wholly unsettling. It captures the agony of Nigerians. Repeatedly, public […]

These are features that are associated with excessive fiscal deficits which the conditions duly set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act and the annual Appropriation Act seeks to avoid. The volume of fiscal deficits being fed […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria underdevelops the economy through heterodox monetary and fiscal procedures contrary to the express mandate and intendment of its enabling law, which aims to promote national economic wellbeing. Ignore the alibi […]

The negotiated release of 27 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, no doubt provided a big relief to distraught Nigerians, particularly parents of the students. At the same time, and […]

Late last year, we started a serial on federalism. We were convinced that a federal state structure was imperative. We remain convinced that constitution that is federal is the only basis for a united Nigeria […]

A fresh alarm by the presidency alleging plots by persons and groups to bring down the Buhari government is, as may be expected, grave and very troubling to the masses of Nigerians who are already […]

The reported attempt to burgle the residence of the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Agboola Gambari and another Presidential Administration Officer, Abubakar Maikano is a pointer to the grave security situation in Nigeria. […]