Editorial

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 […]

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 […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria Nigeria released, in September, 2019, new guidelines for cashless policy in Nigeria. The policy itself is not new and the objective is to discourage the preference for cash as a […]

FROM sluggish growth, falling reserves and mounting debts to unmet revenue targets, capital flight and a jobless army of youths, the economy continues to confound President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. News of a deceleration in Gross […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s naming of an Economic Advisory Council on Monday instantly ignited hope that the administration’s dreary management template is set for a positive jolt. Already, the organised private sector, global agencies and perceptive […]

A story the other day that a driver at the Lagos international airport returned eight hundred and eighty eight thousand naira (N888,000) to a passenger who left the money in his car may seen routine […]

In two days, the 74th United Nations General Assembly will open in New York. One week later, on September 24, the general debate, the ritual at which the heads of state and government empty into […]

WHEN the National Examinations Council released the results of its June/July 2019 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, many missed the big story of the spike in the recorded incidents of cheating. Of the total 1,151,016 […]

It is time for the health authorities to get cracking on strategies to arrest the scourge and shame of yellow fever outbreak in the country. It has become a reproach to Africa’s most populous nation. […]

The recent closure of the Nigerian-Benin border in the southern part of the country has elicited various comments by numerous stakeholders such as the Manufacturers Association Export Group and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and […]