Editorial

IT is hardly surprising that some highly-placed individuals have reportedly been disregarding protocols deployed by the Ministry of Aviation to ensure safe air travel in Nigeria amidst the still burgeoning coronavirus pandemic. The reopening was […]

NIGERIA has a poor track record in awarding oil blocks. Many of the past awards of oil blocks and marginal fields were tainted with fraud and cronyism, with some cases still in litigation. For example, […]

THE country is sinking deeper into the debt peonage. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently joined other observers to highlight this, deploring the Federal Government’s recourse to borrowing for every spending need rather […]

BEING one of the basic needs of man, everyone craves a decent home regardless of status or gender, but it becomes a niggling oddity if a home turns the harbinger of death as the disconcerting […]

Two recent developments, though seemingly unconnected, should cause the Federal Government and the Ministry of Health more worries. In Lagos, 58 doctors were intercepted for attempting to travel to the UK without a visa. In […]

In response to the increase in reported cases of sexual harassment in tertiary institutions, the Nigerian Senate has passed a bill to protect students from sexual predators. Titled “A Bill for an Act to Prevent, […]

THE International Monetary Fund’s recent warning to the Federal Government to avoid undue aggression in tax collection amid what is predicted as the country’s worst ever recession is timely. Nigeria’s governments – federal and state […]

Ibrahim Magu A damp muddle is hanging precariously over the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime’s war on corruption. Apart from the nasty allegations and counter allegations emerging from the Ayo Salami presidential panel […]

As the September annual rainfall peak season is expected to generate floods in parts of the country, it is worthwhile that Lagos State has issued flood alert for residents to take proactive measures to prevent […]

Protesters accused Britain of failing to hold Beijing to account over its treatment of Hong Kong. Photo:AFP / Nicolas ASFOURI LIBERTY is under siege in Hong Kong where a new draconian security law has been […]

The downstream sector of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, no doubt, has been in a shambles for many years, but it has been thrown into more confusion in recent months, no thanks to the Petroleum […]

A claim the other day by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Olamilekan Adegbite that seven ‘‘strategic minerals’’ that can unlock potential in the mining sector have been identified by the Federal Government […]

BELLIGERENT and uncouth as is customary with them, commercial motorcyclists have just jogged our memory of the threat they pose to society. On the excuse of fighting the cause of a man hit by a […]

WHEN Nigeria recorded its index COVID-19 case in the person of an Italian in Ogun State in February, the government gave itself a pat on the back for the seemingly swift manner it was able […]

NIGERIA is emerging slowly from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown with a lot on its plate. Another pressing issue is the mounting joblessness in the ranks of its workforce. Undoubtedly, the pandemic and the shrinking oil […]

Given the debilitating COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world and the excruciating poverty hitting the economy of many states of the federation, it has become impractical and unrealistic for the state governments of the federation to […]

A claim the other day by the Minister of Finance, Budgeting and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed at a webinar organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, that “Nigeria cannot stop borrowing” has again raised […]

A recent plan by the Federal Government to stop vehicle purchase and flippant spending on capital projects appears laudable on the face of it but falls far short of an expected broad range of cost-cutting […]

The Federal Government the other day warned state officials and Very Important Persons (VIPs) against flagrant abuse of travel protocol, as flights resume in the COVID-19 era. The concern is apt, though an ugly reminder […]