Editorial

Alleged diversion of N2.6 billion COVID-19 funds for school feeding programme into personal accounts is alarming, judging by the huge amount and the timing of the act in the midst of intense anti-corruption campaigns. The […]

DESPITE guzzling billions in running costs for many years, the four refineries being run by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation remain in a sorry state. Claims of turnaround maintenance and rehabilitation funded by taxpayers’ money […]

Public and social centres are opening nationwide after about six months of COVID-19 induced lockdown. It began with extended trading hours in marketplaces, relaxed curfews, then religious centres and now schools. Let’s not get it […]

Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye’s recent disclosure that 70 percent of medicines used in Nigeria are imported while only 30 per cent are produced […]

The decision by the Kaduna State Government to carry out surgical castration and death on convicts of sexual violators should be seen for what it is: a desperate measure to address an unwholesome problem. But […]

TODAY is the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s flag independence. Our Diamond Jubilee is themed: “Together”. The Federal Government has rolled out a one year-long panoply of events that will terminate on September 31, 2021 but […]

Today, Nigeria is 60. For us, it is not a time for popping champagne. In the last couple of years, the country has curiously become a killing field. In the words of the contract theorists, […]

Despite the tumultuous episodes and frantic permutations preceding the Edo State governorship election, both the conduct and outcome of that election was not surprising to peace-loving Nigerians. Given the resources and goodwill expended, the election […]

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 […]