Editorial

WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked […]

For his visionary and transformational leadership, which has been the main driver in his attainment of “peace and international cooperation, and in particular, his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea,” the […]

FINANCIAL encumbrances have compelled Italy to downsize its parliament. The initiative by Five Star – the main party in the coalition government – will see the country saving a whopping €1 billion or £897 million […]

In a class of elite officers of the Nigeria Police Force, Superintendent of Police Celestina Kalu might not have been a known name. She is not one of the privileged lot conveyed by siren-blaring cars, […]

It is curious that President Muhammadu Buhari the other day decried reported concentration of the wealth of the country in the hands of a few people in five states and the Federal Capital Territory without […]

Of late, the Central Bank of Nigeria has been in the news. Its decision to set a floor (initially at 60 per cent, but subsequently increased to 65 per cent) on how much of their […]

AS federal lawmakers and the business community mull the N10.33 trillion 2020 budget proposals presented by President Muhammadu Buhari last week, optimism on its capacity to deliver progress comes mostly from the government’s corner. Some […]

Nigeria overflows with revenue sources ready to be utilised for national development. But they are incompletely collected or left untapped because the Federal Government has been suffering from a chronic fiscal mobilisation deficiency disease (FMDD). […]

At the Creative Nigeria Summit 2019 the other day, a number of heart-warming developments emerged from the stable of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). These include the intention of CBN to put a stop […]

A call the other day for foreign assistance by governors who attended the recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York gives the impression that Nigerians are helpless and could do nothing without assistance […]

DESPERATE to expand its flagging revenue profile, the Federal Government is at an advanced stage of re-introducing highway tolls. Amidst economic turbulence, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, unveiled the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s […]

DESPITE strident calls to curb its increasingly unnerving appetite for debt, the Federal Government’s three-year spending plan, beginning 2020, envisages an additional N4.6 trillion borrowing. Should the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework move according to […]

Militancy in the Niger Delta region is as old as the country itself. So, it is trite to attribute its advent to the current administration in any form. Only children who have been growing without […]

IN May 1807, Britain abolished the slave trade. A few months later on January 1, 1808, the US followed suit. Thus, slave trade, man’s greatest inhumanity to man perpetrated mainly against Blacks and Africans, became […]

Kano State’s launching of free and compulsory basic and secondary education policy the other day with fanfare amidst concern for the impact of campaign by a terror group against western education in parts of northern […]

POORLY-equipped and generally underfunded, Nigeria’s dysfunctional health system is taking a further hit from a mass exodus of medical doctors. This has led to a considerable loss of confidence in the sector. In fact, if […]

THE House of Representatives and the Armed Forces high command appear to have found a common ground on the country’s security challenges and how to combat them. By focusing however exclusively on the need for […]

UNLIKE the ongoing effusion of national pride in China (today) and Botswana (yesterday) that are also marking their national days, gloom, anxiety and seething discontent are pervasive among Nigerians at home and abroad on the […]

A camp in Kaduna, where the police rescued hundreds of inmates living in harsh conditions, is rightly provoking outrage in many quarters. All hell broke loose last weekend when the police raided the Ahmad bin […]

ON the pretext of tracking insurgents fleeing the military assault in the North-East and to check the dispersal of bandits, kidnappers and ethnic militia, the Nigerian Army says it is launching a nationwide operation that […]