Editorial

Recent uproar and even debate over the first family’s entitlement to the presidential jets are good for probity and accountability of our national assets, though bad for the floundering image of President Muhammadu Buhari. Upon […]

This is the right time to do some reality check and indeed evaluation on the implications of a recent rice ban in the context of noisy border closure. The business and economy journalists and analysts […]

Against the backdrop of a decrepit and ill-equipped fire service infrastructure in the country, there have been genuine concerns that the frequent market fires in several states could only wreck more havoc. This is not […]

JUST when it seemed as if disasters were easing off, a man-made calamity erupted. Four days into the New Year, a gas explosion in Kaduna State incinerated eight people, including an academic. The tragedy occurred […]

A recent report about the killing with reckless abandon of police personnel while in the line of duty is a frightening development. One media tally put the figure at 101 with Rivers, Bayelsa, Edo, Kaduna […]

FOR the second time in three years, Nigeria is on the cusp of securing a clean break from its association with an infamous trio of poliovirus transmitting countries that includes Afghanistan and Pakistan. Until India […]

Realising that the West African region is now caught in the labyrinth of terrorism and other forms of criminality, which have hindered the well-being of the citizens and the economy, leaders of the Economic Community […]

Since then, world leaders have responded frenetically to the development with rhetoric, vacillating between condemnation and approval. Russia said the attack was a “murder and reckless step.” A Kremlin statement said President Vladimir Putin had […]

For most Nigerians and the Organised Private Sector, their prospects in 2020, once trumpeted as the threshold year for the country’s economic accession, appear gloomy indeed. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry captured the […]

The World Bank’s latest Economic Update on the Nigerian economy, which indicated that the poverty rate in Nigeria could even worsen beyond what it currently is, except a new trajectory of development is followed should […]

NIGERIA’s notoriously inefficient electricity industry has degenerated into a constant source of fatalities. To substantiate this, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has just given an insight into the niggling safety millstone blighting the industry, stating […]

As the relevant agencies set about cobbling a new revenue sharing formula, Nigeria has a fresh opportunity to infuse modern scientific acumen into its public financial management. While the state governors are rightly pressing for […]

Activities of Islamist terror groups in recent months have shown that the Nigerian authorities still have a lot on their plate as they seek to end 10 years of bloody insurgency that has spawned so […]

A recent report that Bank Verification Number (BVN) introduced into the Nigerian banking industry in 2014 to serve as a unique identifier of bank customers in the country under a centralised identity system has been […]

When will there be real testimonies concerning protracted stories of railway development project in Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria? When will even state governments be serious with even light rail development to enhance mass transit […]

It is incredible to note that this newspaper’s 2018 ‘‘Person of the Year,’’ Leah Sharibu aptly described on January 1, 2019 as “A goddess of resistance” is still in captivity. This is the eighth editorial […]

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has understandably come under fire for taking the wedding of his daughter to a foreign country, Mauritius instead of holding the event here in Nigeria. Specifically, critics in the […]

Despite new claims of a significant reduction in national Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence rate in Nigeria, it is quite mortifying that the country still tops the mother-to-child transmission rate in the world. […]

Is establishment of a national disability commission necessary an end or a means to an end as far as commitment to the welfare and security of the physically challenged people in Nigeria? Answer to this […]