Editorial

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 […]

It is disheartening that the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has not been pushful in word and indeed for the release of citizen Leah Sharibu, the only remaining Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage among 110 […]

THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was brutally frank when recently he admitted that the country could no longer afford its addiction to imported food. Though seemingly casual in his remarks that “…we don’t […]

WITH the recent development of interest in electronic voting, the Independent National Electoral Commission appears set on a revolutionary path that could straighten up Nigeria’s sordid and ungainly electoral system. For those who have been […]

It was just sheer coincidence that this comment and former Governor of Kaduna State Abubakar Dangiwa Umar’s timely letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on his alleged “nepotism pushing Nigeria to the brink” hit the public […]

After many twists and exchange of correspondences between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Super Eagles Manager, Gernot Rohr, the German last week accepted to continue his coaching role in Nigeria. Rohr will remain […]

If there has been any incident during this COVID-19 pandemic that illustrates the shifty nature of this government, it is the saga of the so-called ‘Chinese doctors’. So sadly episodic has the event been that […]

A feeling of rage, agony and injustice is sweeping across the United States again after the police callously murdered an African-American, George Floyd, in Minneapolis on Monday. Floyd, 46, died horribly in the hands of […]

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 […]