It was an audacious pronouncement. In a state broadcast in December, 2017, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, had made a pledge to the people of the state that “I will by personal example […]
Sir: The news that has generated buzz in the social and conversional media on Monday is the enrolment of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s six-year old child in the public school. Abubakar was enrolled in Kaduna State […]
LAST week, the Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, revealed that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls had been forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso after being trafficked. Speaking during an interview with the […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria Nigeria released, in September, 2019, new guidelines for cashless policy in Nigeria. The policy itself is not new and the objective is to discourage the preference for cash as a […]
FROM sluggish growth, falling reserves and mounting debts to unmet revenue targets, capital flight and a jobless army of youths, the economy continues to confound President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. News of a deceleration in Gross […]
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s naming of an Economic Advisory Council on Monday instantly ignited hope that the administration’s dreary management template is set for a positive jolt. Already, the organised private sector, global agencies and perceptive […]
A story the other day that a driver at the Lagos international airport returned eight hundred and eighty eight thousand naira (N888,000) to a passenger who left the money in his car may seen routine […]
President Muhammadu Buhari the other day underlined the importance of education to national development and cited its quality as the best means of lifting people out of poverty. The president made the point at the […]
In two days, the 74th United Nations General Assembly will open in New York. One week later, on September 24, the general debate, the ritual at which the heads of state and government empty into […]
WHEN the National Examinations Council released the results of its June/July 2019 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, many missed the big story of the spike in the recorded incidents of cheating. Of the total 1,151,016 […]
It is time for the health authorities to get cracking on strategies to arrest the scourge and shame of yellow fever outbreak in the country. It has become a reproach to Africa’s most populous nation. […]
The recent closure of the Nigerian-Benin border in the southern part of the country has elicited various comments by numerous stakeholders such as the Manufacturers Association Export Group and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and […]
A recent report of the arrest of 37 Federal Road Safety Commission officials for their alleged involvement in corrupt practices, while on duty, is a sad development that signals the final descent into ignominy of […]
AT the ripe age of 95, death has finally taken away Zimbabwe’s former leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Initially hailed as a courageous freedom fighter, who led the guerrilla movement that liberated his country from decades […]
A recent report of the arrest of 37 Federal Road Safety Commission officials for their alleged involvement in corrupt practices, while on duty, is a sad development that signals the final descent into ignominy of […]
It is disconcerting that it took a slam of punitive retaliation by the United States on Nigerians applying for US entry visas for the government of Nigeria to at last look into the complaints of […]
Nigerians should have every reason to be tired of reports of every government’s move to revive the textile industry since 1999 when democracy returned with some promise. Despite all the noise and vaunting about revamping […]
PREVIOUSLY a zone of admiration, a new glimpse into the financials of the South-West states reveals a troubling uncertainty. Apart from the general fiscal depression afflicting the country, the region is now reckoned as the […]
A recent drop in the international price of crude oil has re-echoed the great need for a total overhaul of the management of the Nigerian economy. This development calls for the urgent need for a […]
An assertion the other day by an executive of an international non-profit that corruption kills more than malaria and HIV/AIDS diseases is quite instructive and should be taken as a significant remark, which should not […]
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