Editorial

The Federal Government’s move to roll out new set of palliatives for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is commendable, as millions of such businesses have no support in any form despite being the bedrock […]

EVEN before the Covid-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s unemployment statistics was quite scary. Unemployment has been a potent threat to the country’s existence for years. Over the years, Nigerians have been massively impoverished as politicians toyed with […]

In ways reminiscent of the relocation of the country’s capital from Lagos to Abuja on December 12, 1991, the Ministry of Aviation the other day directed agencies under the ministry to move their corporate headquarters […]

Last week, the senate once again reminded Nigerians of the charade touted as power sector privatisation when it mandated its committee on power sector to probe the N1.532 trillion spent by the Federal Government on […]

Impunity comes in diverse cloaks but it has a common denominator, namely an affronting violation of communal sense of decency and morality. That seems the meaning to make of the story of a man who […]

FACED with the task of devising the most effective strategy to curtail the coronavirus outbreak, some state governors are choosing pious platitudes over straightforward scientific choices. All over the country, governors are competing to outdo […]

The Federal Government the other day pledged to support the aviation sector with bailout funds to cushion the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The move is consistent with global practice and so it is […]

It is obviously a case of the more you look and inquire, the less you see and understand. We refer to the issue of the mystery N4.3 billion reportedly belonging to the Ondo State government […]

Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu’s display, on Tuesday, of a total lack of understanding of the true meaning and categorisation of ‘essential duty workers’ must have surprised many Nigerians, especially at a time the […]

The coronavirus pandemic has proven to be a leveller, shattering the best of medical systems and confounding erstwhile infallible medical knowledge. At present, not much is precisely known of its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or how […]

CONTAINING the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for the federal and state governments since the index case was first reported in Lagos late February. All the 36 but two states of the federation — Kogi […]

IN inaugurating an implementation committee to resuscitate the Ajaokuta Steel Company, the Federal Government has a fresh chance to either finally bring the project to fruition or, if it fails, extend the country’s 42-year-old nightmare. […]

Whilst the euphoria arising from the appointment of a personal member of staff of the President may typically not warrant the leading comment of this newspaper, the fantastic narratives, albeit mythical and sometimes preposterous, concerning […]

UNDETERRED by disobliging officials, civil society organisations and activists are pressing forward in the crusade for probity in public office. In another push, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, among other CSOs, is demanding that […]

By the time he reinstated the free movement of essential services workers on Wednesday, amid nationwide travel restrictions and curfew, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and his officers had further sullied the image of […]

In the face of inadequacies amid risks and recent detention by police authorities, our frontline workers have shown uncommon commitment to the discharge of their duties to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in our country. Indeed, […]

UNDETERRED by disobliging officials, civil society organisations and activists are pressing forward in the crusade for probity in public office. In another push, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, among other CSOs, is demanding that […]

No fewer than 27 foreign nationals, 17 of them Chinese, were arrested in Osun State recently while illegally exploiting gold. The furore was yet to die down when two other Chinese were apprehended for the […]

It is indeed curious that the northern governors’ decision to relocate the Almajirai to their states of origin to control the spread of a pandemic has become an anticlimax. The ostensible logic is to contain […]

Without batting an eyelid, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation admitted that its four refineries did not produce a drop of refined product in eight months. But as usual, the Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, attempted […]