Editorial

IT is taking too long for Nigeria to eradicate the repulsive custom of open defecation. Available statistics of the stench are undeniable: the country ranks as the second worst afflicted in the world among places […]

JUST how lax the Central Bank of Nigeria has been in enforcing its writ emerged from its Monetary Policy Committee that recently expressed grave concern over the N8.1 trillion delinquent loans in the banking system. […]

FOR Mohammed Adamu, who was confirmed as the 20th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, the attainment of the top professional police position may turn out to be bitter-sweet. At no time in Nigeria’s past, bar the […]

The seeming helplessness of state governments as citizens suffer acute water scarcity across the country is a shameful matter of serious concern. It calls to question policy thrusts on water and billions of naira the […]

WOMEN’s political fortunes in the country dwindled further with the outcome of the 2019 general election. This is not good for the society, our democracy and the global effort to ramp up their participation in […]

Muhammadu Leko Buhari took the oath of office yesterday for a second term as President and Commander-in-Chief of the defence forces of democratic Nigeria without a speech to outline his vision for the next four […]

INAUGURATED amid the euphoria of liberation from military rule and a schismatic upheaval in the polity, two decades of democracy have failed to banish division, poverty and insecurity in Nigeria. In the place of hope […]

Despite exiting recession less than two years ago, following five successive quarters of contraction, the Nigerian economy is still tottering on the brink. The consensus among some experts is that it is just a heartbeat […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari commences his second and final term in office today, it is a despondent and, at the same time, an exultant people who are casting a retrospective glance at governance in the […]

EAGER to make an impression among its peers, Nigeria is needlessly increasing its membership of bilateral and multilateral organisations at a dubious pace. Although it promised to withdraw from various global agencies two years ago […]

As Muhammadu Leko Buhari warms up for swearing in for a second term in office as President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s defence forces two days from now, there is no more befitting time for an […]

It is not strange that recent retirement and redeployment of senior management staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have been generating controversies and diverse comments from members of the public. There should be […]

GIVEN his long-held inflexible views on the vexed national question of restructuring, President Muhammadu Buhari must have left many Nigerians stunned by his recent call for a return to “true federalism” as the most fitting […]

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has accurately dissected the incendiary threat Islamism poses to Nigeria’s existence. In a diagnosis that has provoked an instant debate, Obasanjo exposed the agenda of Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen to […]

The festering condition of the Ladipo auto spare parts market has been of huge concern for a long time to residents and visitors to Lagos, the nation’s economic capital. Although the Lagos State government has […]

The quest for federalism within the context of restructuring received support from unexpected quarters recently when President Muhammadu Buhari declared that the unfettered practice of the system is an idea whose time has indeed come. […]

A declaration of state of emergency on public health in the country recently by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has added to the blacklist of issues that governments at all levels have […]

It is curious and even provocative that the authorities and the people of Nigeria have not been considering groundswell of informed commentaries that Nigeria needs better, not more universities at this time that disruptive technologies […]

Going by all the emerging evidence of the brazen, defiant criminality in its many forms ravaging this country now, the rule of law is failing and the power of constituted authority to fulfill its very […]

THE discredited culture of examination cheating has persisted in Nigeria. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says the results of 43,120 candidates who sat this year’s University Tertiary Matriculation Examination were withheld as a result […]