Editorial

BEREFT of an efficient health care system and a genuine commitment to its eradication, Nigeria has remained stuck among countries with a malignant presence of the deadly tuberculosis infection. Nigeria in 2018 came sixth, behind […]

Nigerians celebrate today Easter Sunday. For Christians the world over, the weekend marks the end of the forty-day period of Lent, a celebration of the central mystery that defines the Christian faith – the suffering, […]

If there was ever any doubt about the indiscretion, illegality, breach of constitutional provisions and lack of coordination still permissible among public officeholders, then Tuesday’s arrest of two pilots in Rivers State and attendant row […]

If there ever was any doubt about the insensitivity of Nigeria’s legislators to the plight of the people they purport to represent, the obscene spectacle of members of the House of Representatives sharing new cars […]

FOR the officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, the life of an ordinary Nigerian has scant value. They demonstrated their morbid penchant for wasting innocent lives yet again in a rural Ogun State community recently […]

On Sunday, March 29, 2020, His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces addressed the nation on preparations and policy actions on the ravaging effects of the pandemic COVID-19, the virus, which […]

A recent bill seeking to stop the Federal Government from spending funds recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) without appropriation by the National Assembly passed second reading in the House of Representatives. […]

MUHAMMAD Nami, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, resorted recently to appealing to state-run revenue generating agencies to remit funds to the government as stipulated by law. This epitomises the Nigerian government’s […]

NIGERIA’S moribund refineries have purportedly gulped $396.33 million in the professed efforts by successive governments to fix them for optimal production. But vacuity in the desired result has provoked an inquest in the House of […]

A recent private member bill in the National Assembly seeking to ban the importation and sale of generators in the country is vexatious, insensitive and anti-people and so should be withdrawn immediately. It beats the […]

WITH yet another round of tariff increase looming, electricity consumers in Nigeria will have no choice but to brace themselves for harder times. This implies paying more for the usual lack of or irregular electricity […]

With no overriding push by the authorities to adopt global best practices in their engagements with the public, the police in Nigeria persist in their brutalities. In another repressive operation targeted at civil protesters in […]

But for the strange COVID-19 disruption, a report the other day that the Nigerian Senate was considering a bill that would make debates compulsory for presidential and governorship candidates and their running mates would have […]

AS the country braces for the inevitable adverse economic impact of the raging coronavirus pandemic, the federal and monetary authorities, the legislature and the private sector have separately been rolling out a raft of measures […]

EAGER to expand their tentacles, federal aviation authorities are in the final stages of adding more airports to their portfolio. Regarding this, the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Hamisu Yadudu, told […]

AMID a global health and economic crisis and severe threat to the national budget, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission recently re-tabled the vexed issue of constituency projects. Like the President, Major […]

The global community has reached a critical stage in the fight against COVID-19. In the absence of a cure or vaccine, the best weapon still remains prevention. Social distancing to stop the disease from spreading […]

AMID a global health and economic crisis and severe threat to the national budget, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission recently re-tabled the vexed issue of constituency projects. Like the President, Major […]

If the Nigerian Senate has its way, it will strip the president, state governors and other state officials of immunity from prosecution. A bill is currently being considered that will ensure that state officials in […]

Although so much has been said and written about the dethronement of the controversial erstwhile Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, the simmering aftershocks of that deposition are instructive in understanding the tension between traditional […]