Editorial

WHILE receiving the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu, during a courtesy visit to his office recently, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler, said the service, in […]

The authorities should stop wasting police officers trained at great expense It has become fairly routine in the Nigeria Police Force to retire senior officers immediately an acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) is appointed. Mostly […]

Reactions ranging from hand-wringing to fatalistic acceptance have trailed the downward review by International Monetary Fund (IMF) of Nigeria’s 2019 growth rate from 2.3 per cent (which the IMF itself had soothsaid in October 2018) […]

THE atmosphere of great disappointment occasioned by the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections from February 16 to Saturday, February 23, 2019 has understandably put major political actors and the electorate on edge. […]

IT is said that those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat its lessons. Nigeria has, once again, proved it is incapable of learning from its past mistakes. Repetition of past vices […]

It is indeed curious that not many politicians and aspiring leaders have been talking about how Africa’s most populous nation (Nigeria) can lead Africa too as an entrepreneurial nation even in a general election year […]

The cost, unimaginably grave, may be difficult to calculate immediately and the consequences may yet be in the realm of conjecture. It is, however, safe to say that the postponement, barely six hours to voting, […]

EVIDENCE that the Nigerian society is fighting a tough battle against a rising tide of sexual abuse and domestic violence continues to mount across the country. Definitively, this is the case in Lagos, which has […]

NIGERIA faces momentous elections on Saturday in which the registered 84 million voters are set to elect a president for another four years. Simultaneously, there will be voting for 109 Senate and 360 House of […]

DECIDEDLY, the judiciary is in the vortex of confusion provoked by the unconstitutional suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, from office by President Muhammadu Buhari. After weeks of legal brinkmanship, the Code […]

Nigerians, especially, those living in Lagos and some other southern states may have been jolted by the unusual heavy downpours that marked the first month of the year; a month that is normally characterised by […]

NIGERIA faces momentous elections on Saturday in which the registered 84 million voters are set to elect a president for another four years. Simultaneously, there will be voting for 109 Senate and 360 House of […]

The frenetic presidential campaigns and advertisement blitzkrieg by political parties will tomorrow culminate in an election that will launch us into the 21st year of the nation’s democracy. However, there are some unhealthy developments in […]

NIGERIANS woke up recently to see giant broom monuments being erected on the hallowed grounds of the Abuja City-gate and the Abuja Unity Fountain by yet-to-be-identified individuals. Sequel to the dust that this issue kicked […]

When will several promises made on the release of Leah Sharibu be fulfilled? Where is Leah Sharibu? Is she alive? It is unfortunate that the answers to these questions are still blowing in the wind […]

THE dangerous game of political muscle-flexing currently unfolding in Venezuela has, undoubtedly, reached a boiling point. The situation has become too devastating to ignore under the guise of Article 2 (4) of the United Nations […]

The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2019 marked recently provided yet another opportunity to reaffirm Nigeria’s dubious reputation for misery. By retaining its ranking as host to the third highest number […]

As the nation prepares to go to the polls to elect leaders into different offices starting February 16, most citizens, have been puzzled and disappointed that the campaigns have been, so far, so barren on […]

It’s five days to the crucial presidential election, the first of a two-part balloting that begins at 8a.m. on Saturday, February 16; and Nigerians are about to test the veracity of the “predictions” of “prophets” […]

Nigeria’s 84 million voters will go to the polls next weekend to give their verdict on Muhammadu Buhari. The country is Africa’s most populous, and by some measures has the largest economy on the continent. […]