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 […]
MESMERISED by the allure of grandeur abroad, in contrast to the misery at home, vulnerable Nigerian minors are leaving the country in droves. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, underlined the scourge afresh when […]
Obviously, Nigeria is not working as it should, 59 years after independence. Sundry ills beset the country: Armed robbery, kidnapping, low-intensity armed conflict, unemployment, human rights violations, widespread poverty, misapplication of public resources, rising debt […]
Unlike the usual National Day celebration, when Nigerians from every tribe and tongue mark the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence with pomp, restful holidaying and extravagant celebrations, the queries that have been raised about the state […]
The 2020 budget proposals of the Federal Government appear to be currently beset with many challenges akin to what currently plagues the current 2019 budget. In preparation for the presentation of the 2020 budget to […]
The recent closure of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu should be of huge concern among various stakeholders in the aviation industry. Though the continued closure is to sustain public trust in air travel in […]
It should be worrisome that an old story of how so many developed and developing economies have been gaining brains from our brain drain in the health sector is still a recent discussion point by […]
New on the job as Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite should avoid the slippery, doomed choices of the past on the Ajaokuta Steel Company. His remarks while receiving the Russian ambassador to […]
In what promises to be a major collaborative effort by Ogun and Lagos states, Governor Dapo Abiodun disclosed recently that plans had reached advanced stages to take over the reconstruction of some poorly-maintained federal roads […]
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 […]
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