Editorial

The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at its recent meeting (CBN) to curtail the appetite of banks for Federal Government’s (FG) debt instruments is remarkable. According to […]

Criminals have continued to make a mockery of Nigeria’s security system. Apart from the increasing tempo in kidnapping, robbery and banditry in several parts of the country, criminals viciously attacked police stations in different states […]

It is a bad news item that foreign airlines are again raising safety concerns about our airports after a long period of perceived stability in the sensitive industry. The foreign airline operators are apparently concerned […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) recent strategic move to revive and grow Nigeria’s cotton, textile and garments economic sector and to improve domestic production of cotton from about 80,000 tonnes in 2018 to 300,000 […]

What will the political officers and women rights activists in Nigeria tell the world body as the major achievements of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (FMWASD) when they converge at the […]

The persistent issue of insecurity in Nigeria has been fingered as a major reason behind foreign investors pulling out their investments from the country. According to a recent report, over N1.77 trillion foreign investments have […]

WHEN the news broke of the Federal Government’s apparent resolve to proscribe the Almajiri system as part of an attempt to combat rising insecurity across the country, the elation felt across different segments of the […]

LAST week, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Muhammad Babandede, indicated that the agency was contemplating the idea of issuing multiple standard international passports to high net worth Nigerians who are […]

A report that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has cancelled the contract for the $2.6 billion Badagry deep seaport because of a wrongly done master plan is a welcome development provided that the port regulator […]

FOR failing to meet the due process requirements for accessing funds provided for rehabilitating basic schools by most state governments, the Universal Basic Education Commission has been sitting on an idle N84 billion meant for […]

Outright despicable and unsightly, the pervasive sight of street urchins, clad in rags, and roaming the streets, begging bowls in tow, has continued to foist a derisive image on Nigeria. It is a phenomenon that […]

The recent investigative report of a newspaper on the scarcity of teachers in public schools and the revelation that nearly 80 per cent of the states in the country have placed embargo on recruitment, are […]

So much indignation has greeted a comment attributed recently to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai expressing dissatisfaction with the performance of his troops in the war against insurgents. He was […]

Eager for a way out of the logjam decelerating Nigeria’s steel industry, bold voices have come out to define the next step for the government. Not that their proposal is new, but the Manufacturers Association […]

A recent report of the slump in the price of crude oil to about US $60 from almost US $70 per barrel has really become worrisome for Nigeria’s implementation of the 2019 budget, despite some […]

ho trusts Boris Johnson? Not, apparently, his team. The paradox of the race to lead the Conservative party, and therefore Britain, is that those convinced that Mr Johnson is an irresistible, unstoppable electoral force at […]

Nigeria’s rising debt stock and the over 50 per cent of its revenue used to service it annually do not bode well for our overall economic development. This has not gone unnoticed by the African […]