Editorial

An economic transition is taking place boldly on a global basis and tragically not many are aware of this process. Modes of production have been largely shaped by the development and transformation of productive forces […]

SENIOR civil servants are at daggers drawn with the Federal Government over the implementation of the “consequential adjustment” in their salaries, following the adoption of N30,000 as the country’s new minimum wage. A common ground […]

Nearly two months after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in for his second and final term in office, he has sent a list of ministerial nominees to the National Assembly. After a long wait, compatriots […]

SEEMINGLY radical moves made recently to stimulate farming signpost both the Federal Government’s awareness of the urgency for food security and the lack of coherence and coordination in its diverse initiatives. President Muhammadu Buhari followed […]

A report the other day that most of the states’ primary health centres remain in a decrepit state leaves a residue of sour taste in the mouth just a few months after stakeholders mulled a […]

An alarm raised the other day by the Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, over the lingering war with Boko Haram deserves special attention especially as the war is 10 years old and there seems […]

The disparity between constant budget proposals for roads and the sordid reality of federal roads in Nigeria is worrisome because it is a kink in the essential fabric of the nation’s critical transportation infrastructure. While […]

THERE have been some noticeable and, no doubt, bold steps taken by the government recently to ensure that some privileged Nigerians who have deceitfully cornered a mammoth slice of the country’s collective wealth through the […]

One of the most iconic figures in the history of American, African-American Literature, an activist on identity and cultural politics of the Black people of America Chloe Anthony Wofford ‘Toni’ Morrison passed on recently after […]

Since President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected for a second and last term, he has been playing host to groups generally known as traditional rulers, campaign organisations, political associates, business groups and special interest groups, lobbyists, […]

The country witnessed a flurry of protest the other day by some civil society actors and activists and the corresponding response from the government and the security arm of the state, the Department of State […]

PREDICATING the need for reform on worsening insecurity, the Federal Government is pressing ahead enthusiastically with the implementation of community policing in the country. Shortly after the horrific killing of Funke Olakunri, 58, on a […]

A recent lamentation by the Organised Private Sector (OPS), that the Nigerian economy lost a whopping N6 trillion to the protracted gridlock in Apapa should spur the authorities to seek ways of decongesting Lagos, which […]