Editorial

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s recent disclosure that 2.25 billion litres of petrol were sold and distributed in December 2020, translating to 72.72 million litres per day, graphically exposes the thriving activities of smugglers in […]

Easily, the pervasive criminality in the country is a manifestation of high unemployment situation in the country. Even if the kidnapping and banditry are politically motivated, as is postulated in some quarters, the inability of […]

It does appear that the pervading problem of insecurity and common criminality are teaming up with the lack of maintenance culture to pose an avoidable danger to the Nigerian aviation sector. This much can be […]

ON the back of security threats, especially the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, Nigeria has consistently ploughed vast resources into defence spending in the past decade. The outcome has been chiefly underwhelming. Despite billions of dollars […]

By all accounts, the struggle for a better Nigeria was his life. His activism defined him. He was among eight student activists expelled from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, in 1988 for leading […]

FOLLOWING the sustained imbroglio between it and the government, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike last week. Consequently, according to reports in the media, hospitals across the country are […]

The high number of Nigerians being daily afflicted with, and dying of cancer is very worrisome, particularly for a terminal disease that can otherwise be better controlled. Governments in saner, but not necessarily richer countries […]

The battle over the appropriate structure of the state is by no means over. The other day, in fiscal garb, it surfaced on the floor of the Nigerian upper legislative chamber, the Senate. The scuffle […]

By their passionate appeal seeking constitutional support to contribute their quota to national development, Royal fathers, grouped as National Traditional Council of Nigeria clearly are desirous of a more stable Nigerian society. They, however, seem […]

The decision by the Federal Government to rehabilitate the moribund Port Harcourt Refinery with a whopping $1.5 billion is a contradiction in terms of the country’s oil and gas sector. Coming after series of unsuccessful […]

Christians all over the world mark today as “Good Friday.” It is the culmination of the 40-day period of lent and the climax of the passion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday celebrates the central mystery […]

THE impetuous decision of the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to abandon his duty post in the middle of a pandemic to consult medical doctors abroad exposes the legendary hypocrisy in his leadership style, which […]

IMPERVIOUS to the provisions prohibiting both states and the Federal Government from adopting any religion as state religion in the 1999 Constitution, the House of Representatives is considering a bill on the wearing of hijab […]

Treasonable assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is an insurrection against the state and deserving the full weight of the law. To treat as contrary and buy-time under the pretense of a […]

Given the revelations of misapplication of security funds under the immediate past administration, the skepticism with which Nigerians greeted recent statement and denial from the authorities is hardly surprising. In the past, the country had […]

A fresh warning of imminent famine by United Nations agencies crowned a week of bad news for Nigerians and the economy. The listing of the country among three vulnerable “hunger hotspots” followed a further spike […]

The case of Itunu Babalola, a Nigerian jailed in Ivory Coast will initially appear to be a scene out of a movie script by an imaginative writer of fiction but, sadly, it happened to a […]

CAPITALISING on the perfunctory interest of the electorate in local government administration, state governors in Nigeria are mercilessly manipulating the third tier of government to suit their inordinate political whims. Contrary to sound democratic norms, […]

As humanity seeks herd immunity from coronavirus, the apprehension being expressed in many quarters over the safety of vaccination is significant. It signposts, on the one hand, that the vaccine candidates’ option against the dreaded […]

There is a sense in which we can claim now that the internal contradictions of the Nigerian state have reached the height of rude awakening. There is also some general awareness that the constitutional scaffolding […]