Editorial

UNDER pressure and embarrassed by the gale of unusual protests sweeping through Katsina State over the bloody spate of insecurity, the Nigeria Police Force has resorted to its old, barbaric and Gestapo ways. Just as […]

WORLDWIDE, public figures like musicians, politicians, movie actors and other celebrities are icons of achievement in their fields of human endeavour. As a result, the successes they have achieved tend to impress others. Indeed, many […]

NIGERIA is engulfed in a rape crisis. Our women (and in a minority of cases, men) are under siege from sex maniacs. It is a nationwide phenomenon, and the time has come for all of […]

A report the other day that resident doctors in the country had embarked on another indefinite nationwide strike should be unsettling amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic. This is certainly not the best time for doctors […]

IT has been raining heavily of late, reminding music lovers of the sad exit of The Rainmaker. He answered the call of his Maker on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at the age of 57. Born […]

A recent call to the Federal Government to ban foreign herdsmen from operating in the North by Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, strikes the right chord. The House of Representatives has also urged the President, […]

The decision by the Lagos State government to suspend indefinitely the planned re-opening of schools, places of worship and entertainment centres should be simply regarded as a judicious move in the light of the rising […]

The National Assembly the other day consented to a Federal Government’s proposal to squeeze the sum of N79.7 billion of the 2020 budget of education and health sectors. Such development at this time of national […]

AFTER the latest round of savage killings by Nigeria’s homegrown terror groups, it is becoming increasingly difficult to give a clear and accurate evaluation of the ongoing terror war situation in the North-East of the […]

IN what is becoming a familiar spectacle across the country, fuel thieves, under the cover of darkness, were said to have swooped on Fagba in Ifako/Ijaye Local Government Area of Lagos State, where they burst […]

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan’s statement, the other day, attributing the inability of the Nigerian military and other security agencies to contain the escalating nation’s insecurity to international politics is defeatist and laughable. The […]

Today is the 27th anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential elections won by Chief M.K.O Abiola. For a long while, Nigeria was under the jackboot of military rule and the rights of its […]

AS the country slides further into recession, the organised private sector is rooting for effective policies to crash lending rates and stimulate productive activities. Their plea to the Central Bank of Nigeria and deposit money […]

The Federal Government’s plan to sell some of its assets to cushion the current fiscal challenges the country is going through appears to be a case of penny wise, pound foolish. The argument put forward […]

A disclosure made the other day by the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Garba Abari, that the agency had established ‘Integrity Clubs’ in 1000 schools nationwide, in its bid to purge the […]

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade that spanned the 18th and 19th century was one of the most brutal assaults on the human race. Human beings from the African continent were treated worse than subhumans and animals. […]

THE recent gruesome death of two female students within a space of days in the hands of murderous rapists has cast a cold light on how badly females are treated in Nigeria. It is an […]

It is becoming customary for governors to play God displaying visceral hatred for the media and the opposition in general. This is unfortunate for the emerging democracy in Nigeria, the strong tower of the black […]

The recently released National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ‘‘2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria’’ survey, which was conducted for the 2018-2019 period, generated quite some interesting results. The survey was used to measure the prevalence […]