Editorial

Authorities must intensify surveillance and security operations to stem the menace The recent rescue of four Nigerian stowaways on the Atlantic Ocean after being thrown overboard by the crew of a foreign vessel raises several […]

This year’s University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was one of a kind. It shoved its handler, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), into a maelstrom with the mass poor scores of candidates and technical […]

We are torn between condemning the Joint Admissions and Ma­triculation Board (JAMB) for the failure of nearly 380,000 candidates of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Lagos, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi […]

The call of late by the Lagos State House of Assembly on the state attorney general to enforce tenancy laws is a notable response to an escalating high rent problem in the state; but it […]

Nigeria’s broken healthcare system is worsening. There is no better evidence than the zero response to Kwara State government’s advertisement for the recruitment of doctors. Its hospitals are operating with just 99 doctors. The tallies […]

The reported loss of about N1.7 trillion in Nigerians’ life savings, pensions and borrowed funds is phenomenon and troubling. Against the chances of such losses being replicated over the years across the country, it is […]

SILENCE is often golden. However, this is not true for the Senate. Otherwise, it would have refrained from responding to Pastor Tunde Bakare’s State of the Nation address last April or did it better. The […]

IT has become obvious that the National Youth Service Corps has outlived its usefulness. In the recent past, many Nigerians had called for the total reform of the programme. Recently, the Federal Government set up […]

The banning by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of recently released song “Tell Your Papa” by the rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, from being broadcast on radio and television stations across the country has rightly attracted wide […]

The authorities may do well to enforce the law The recent conviction of the husband of popular Nigerian gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, has further drawn attention to concerns over domestic violence in the country. Peter […]

LIKE a recurring decimal, anytime the NNPC helmsman is removed, other firings follow. So, it was within the regular sequence of events that usually follow the sacking of the CEO when some top managers of […]

The reported attacks on workers of electricity distribution companies (DisCos) by military personnel, particularly soldiers and Air Force officers, over issues relating to power supply to their barracks do not portray the armed forces in […]

The windows of transparency and accountability in governance were further widened by a recent Supreme Court judgment, which subjected the three tiers of government to the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. All the […]

Reminiscent of the COVID-19 era when Nigeria’s economy was badly destabilised by the pandemic and global restrictions on trade and movement, the imposition of tariffs by the United States on goods exported by Nigeria to […]

BEHIND the high walls of Nigeria’s prison system, thousands of forlorn souls endure a grim existence. Recent revelations about the Nigerian Correctional Service expose a system so plagued by neglect, mismanagement, and corruption that every […]

THE recent attacks on members of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria by soldiers during the group’s annual procession to mark the International Quds Day in Abuja call to mind the crowd management deficit of […]

THE condemnation of Nigeria’s import ban on some 25 goods by the United States comes at a time when the biggest economy in the world is also pursuing protectionist policies that it is condemning. American […]

THE current happenings in Rivers State are thought-provoking. From the appearance of things, it seems that the sole administrator of the state, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has a script known only to him and those who appointed […]

The 2025 World Health Day was celebrated on Monday to mark the beginning of a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. Titled, ‘Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures,’ the campaign urges government and other stakeholders in […]

Already battered by high levels of socio-economic stress, Nigeria’s ever rising debt portfolio is causing increasing anxiety. Unfortunately, authorities in Abuja and the 36 states have continued to sneer at genuine concerns as the loans […]