Editorial

For the sake of elucidation, (i) Section 2(a) of the CBN Act enjoins the CBN to at all times “ensure monetarily and price stability” and (ii) both the Fiscal Responsibility Act and annual Appropriation Act […]

Annotated review of CBN Economic Report First Quarter 2020 (ERQ1, 2020) makes it evident that to fix the country’s multifaceted infrastructural gaps and socio-economic difficulties is realisable. Post-COVID-19 lockdown, Nigeria requires neither domestic nor external […]

The discordant tunes over a proposed controversial railway line from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic clearly exposed the lack of synergy in governance. It is amazing how officials of the same government that should […]

While there appears to be a glimmer of hope in flattening COVID-19, it is not yet time for carelessness. So, it is not a time for celebration and Nigerians must remain alert and cautious, because […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent directive to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to restrict foreign exchange for the purpose of food and fertiliser importation into the country should not be trifled with. […]

The Federal Government the other day rallied forces behind community policing at a time of groundswell agitation for indigenous policing network that has already emerged as Amotekun in the Southwest. Except there is a deliberate […]

The confusion that erupted with the recent twin increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and the tariff for electricity in the country is yet to be abated. There has been a lot […]

All is not well with the state of the nation. Recently, some eminent Nigerians drew the attention of the country and indeed Nigeria’s leader to the parlous state of the nation. And that has elicited […]

The dust raised by the Senate’s probe into the NTA-StarTimes deal is a reminder of the famous saying that the government has no business doing business. Quite typical of most joint ventures signed by government […]

The death of three timber-men from alleged toxic waste pollution in Omotosho Forest Reserve in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State has again drawn public attention to the issue of poor environmental protection in […]

A report the other day revealed that the Senate was planning to advise the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to exclude about 60 revenue generating Federal Government agencies from getting budgetary allocation […]

Although the celebrated annual general conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has come and gone with the controversial withdrawal of the invitation of Nasir El-Rufai, the lessons to be learned from the dis-invitation of […]

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) the other day stirred the hornet’s nest when its Executive Director, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh said that if he were to unveil the list […]

Building a strong domestic economy shouldn’t be a rocket science especially in Nigeria where there is abundant natural and acquired resources from which whatever level of prosperity can be created to make life better. What […]

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva’s recent disclosure that the Federal Government is working with critical stakeholders in the oil and gas industry to convert the massive amount of flared gas to affordable […]

Who is afraid of Amotekun? Who wants to kill the Amotekun dream? Who is plotting to misalign the organic Amotekun lofty vision with a curious community policing in a convoluted federation that the nation wants […]

TRAPPED in outdated notions of state capitalism and entitlement, labour unions in the aviation sector have, like their oil sector counterparts, been voicing strident opposition to the government’s plans to privatise airport operations and make […]

The relative dormancy of Nigeria’s refineries, in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt represent a serious drain on the national purse. This has necessitated the importation of most of the country’s needs of refined petroleum products […]

The outrage that has greeted the sudden hike in electricity tariff by more than 50 per cent, stems from the fact that the Buhari administration that rode on the crest of Change Mantra, with expectations […]