Editorial

Our last editorial on this subject of federalism summed up the pros and cons of federalism. Categorically, it stressed the need to revert to a federal constitutional arrangement along with the finest principles of federalism, […]

SLENDER hopes of an upturn in Nigeria’s debilitating job market appear infeasible for now. This has just been reinforced by a pronouncement from the head of the country’s economic advisory body. Ahead of the news […]

The long-awaited zero-emission container vessel Yara Birkeland has been delivered to its owner Yara International, Norway-based shipbuilder Vard has said. Yara Birkeland features 80 meters in length, 15 meters in width, and can accommodate 120 […]

Alarm raised the other day by the Senate Committee on Aviation on the plight of local air travel industry and its airlines are unduly dramatic and does little to address the real problem of that […]

Once again, the face-off between the Minister of Works and Housing and the Senate Committee on Media highlighted the major challenge of adequate funding and administration of roads in Nigeria. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) was […]

IF any institution needs massive moral enhancement at this time, it is the Nigeria police, which is still devastated in all departments, from the aftermath of #EndSARS protest countrywide. Therefore, the promise of support to […]

He was, no doubt, one of the most controversial leaders Africa ever produced. But Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s former military officer, and politician were nevertheless one of the most successful leaders. His popularity was in […]

Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa was the first elected governor of old Kaduna State and would be remembered for his rare statesmanship that exuded character, courage, principle and selflessness – all coated in rare simplicity and consistency. […]

We have been focusing on the national question remarkably known as ‘federalism,’ an idea whose time has indeed come. We have in previous comments on the issue raised both conceptual and empirical matters. In this […]

The reported outbreak of yellow fever in parts of Delta and Enugu states should be taken with great concern for many reasons. One is that having last been recorded many years ago in Nigeria, it […]

The objectives of the Federal Government’s National Mass Metering Programme (NMPP) are impeccable, according to the promoters of the policy. In summary, the arrangement is meant to comply with international best practice, eliminate an obnoxious […]

IN about all moral contexts, justice gets seen to be done only when an adjudicator is even-handed in the measures dealt to the contending parties. No matter the justification, it is bad optics when one […]

The declared intention by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to present a bill before the State’s House of Assembly for a repeal of the State’s Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law of […]

GIVEN existential realities in the country, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) evaluation of the percentage of Nigerians requiring psychiatric evaluation, which it put at 30 per cent of the population, could be an understatement. Indeed, […]

NOTABLY, Jerry Rawlings, who died on November 12, at the age of 73, hit the limelight with a bang. Bullets brought him to power in Ghana. Within a month, he staged two military coups. The […]

Hope that the country’s economy would rejuvenate, expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presentation of the 2021 budget estimates to the joint sitting of the National Assembly is unrealistic. It certainly is not backed […]

By changing its mind and renouncing its earlier decision against honouring the invitation of the Lagos State Judicial Panel investigating alleged police brutality and aftermaths of the EndSARS protest, the Nigeria Army has fulfilled the […]

The position was recently taken by the power elite and northern leaders seeking government control of the social media, and accused protesters of the EndSARS movement of subversion is not only a measure of perverting […]

The Federal Government should indeed be worried by the growing loss of public confidence in its sincerity to address genuine demands of the EndSARS protests. Though the government at federal and state levels has set […]