Editorial

Apart from the technical difficulties envisaged in the plan by governors to borrow N17 trillion from the country’s pension fund, the greatest obstacle against them perhaps is their poor reputation to spend money wisely and […]

The announcement of the implementation of new SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) registration rules by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) mid-December 2020 is ordinarily a routine exercise by the supervising Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. […]

The regulator should be allowed to pursue genuine reforms in the industry After a false start that seemed to have been designed to harvest Covid-19 for most Nigerians, the federal government last week extended the […]

With 2021 already in its third day, certain individuals, by virtue of their current standing, aspirations or projections, look set to define how the year would ultimately turn out for the country. These individuals, apart […]

If Nigeria keeps to plans, all her closed land borders should be reopened by now. This will be a follow-up to the reopening of four of the land borders, in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]

AN overused strategy by the Federal Government to instil order into the chaos at the land borders by closing and reopening them unilaterally lays bare the entrenched superficial method of conducting public affairs in Nigeria. […]

THE Federal Government’s penchant for poor planning was made more evident recently when on December 15, 2020 it instructed telecommunications service providers to block all subscribers that fail to link their National Identification Numbers with […]

Going by various news in Nigeria and around the world, no one should be in any doubt that this country, like other countries, is fully into the second wave of Coronavirus pandemic. More people, including […]

The sudden spike in local airfares at this time of economic recession and this Christmas season is bad enough for hapless Nigerian air passengers; the addition of chaos (over-booking, flight delays) that has recently been […]

For a government that has repeatedly claimed to have technically defeated Boko Haram insurgents on several occasions, it is curious for the federal government to blame, as it did the other day, foreign powers for […]

The Year 2020 has become remarkable for the ravaging presence of the COVID-19 pandemic; the nationwide peaceful protests against police brutality and bad governance in the month of October that was brutally crushed, and the […]

In the last edition of this editorial, we addressed the discontent of the prevailing state structure in the country in vivid details. We argued that the federal essentiality of the state structure has been atomised […]

The level of insecurity in the country has been so high that no one is safe. Killings, kidnapping, armed robbery, and sundry other vices have been routinised. What is puzzling is the fact that the […]

Being the first Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission to be given clearance to serve for a second term by the National Assembly, Professor Mahmood Yakubu may consider himself lucky. But his seeming good […]

THERE is not much to add to, or take away from, Tatalo Alamu’s judicious “critical appreciation” of Gbolabo Ogunsanwo, the dashing editor and dazzling new newspaper columnist, who died two weeks ago, aged 75. Still, […]

The above bequeathals and legacies represent coup d’état-sired overthrow of the legal tender naira currency as enshrined in the principal objects of the apex bank at Section 2(b) of the CBN Act 2007. In plain […]

The foundational problems of Nigeria remain topical on the agenda, though with conflicting perspectives. However, they are problems we must resolve. It will be recalled that against the backdrop of resource control and overall restructuring […]

Sir: The Mutual Union of Tiv in America (MUTA) is appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent action to ensure the safe return of a million Tiv and other citizens displaced by violence in […]

In the “2021 Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience” speech, President Muhammadu Buhari proposed a federal budget of N13.08 trillion with recurrent to capital expenditure ratio of 71:29. The projected oil revenue is N2.01 trillion, […]