LAST week, a magistrates’ court in Lagos remanded three Senior Secondary School 1 (SSS1)students who allegedly gang-raped their 15-year-old classmate in a juvenile home. The state police command had dragged the teenagers, two of whom […]
Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC], the expansive and very important country in Central Africa, conducted a landmark general election on December 30th 2018, which offers the promise of defining the country’s future. The elections were […]
THE Federal Government has acquiesced to the demand of teachers to increase their age of retirement from 60 to 65 years. A parliamentary enactment to this effect is in the works. The Nigeria Union of […]
AFTER years of living in denial, the Nigerian authorities appear to have finally come to terms with the daunting nature of the ongoing counterinsurgency campaign in the North-East of the country. Instead of the usual […]
JUST like its predecessors, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has become entangled in the Excess Crude Account controversies. Contentiously, the savings account plunged dramatically at the tail end of 2018 to less than $1 billion, according […]
The recent alert issued by the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWOSA) that Nigeria lost a whopping $2.8 billion in 2018 to crimes that are oil and maritime related calls for […]
I was in a store recently, looking for clothes for one of my little God-daughters. I was appalled at what was on offer. Why does a clothing range for 10-12-year olds look like the same […]
This week, precisely 15th January, is Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day. The date defines two epochal events in Nigeria. The first being the nation’s first military coup which took place on the 15th of January […]
Despite the conciliating reactions of some veteran journalists to the brutal invasion of the Daily Trust newspapers by soldiers, it needs to be stated in unequivocal terms that the act was needlessly ruthless, ill-advised and […]
THE Federal Government has acquiesced to the demand of teachers to increase their age of retirement from 60 to 65 years. A parliamentary enactment to this effect is in the works. The Nigeria Union of […]
At her retirement ceremony as Lagos State Head of Service, Mrs. Folashade Adesoye raised an alarm over the number of civil servants with mental health challenges in the service. Putting the figure at 100, 000, […]
NIGERIAN medical doctors practicing in the country have over the years demonstrated on several occasions that they rank among the best in the world and can effectively meet the health needs of the citizenry if […]
FOUR months after putting the national carrier project on hold, the Federal Government is making a fresh push to kick-start it. In the budget breakdown presented by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator […]
Sir: Again, it is that time in every four years in Nigeria when the polity is heated. Barely few days to the general election, the phenomenon of pre-electoral violence is recurring, and at a very […]
Who are the politicians buying Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from voters ahead of the general elections starting few weeks from now? We earnestly wish they can be identified and their nefarious activity stopped before they […]
The aborted arraignment by the Code of Conduct Tribunal of Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen for alleged false and non-declaration of assets; and the public opprobrium that greeted it is a pointer to another systemic failure […]
Jerry Uwah Even with a budget proposal that appears dead on arrival, there are glimmers of hope for road users in all parts of the country during the year. The federal government has an elaborate […]
A couple of days ago, a fraction of the Gabonese military attempted to derail the democratic government of their country by a forceful seizure of the reins of power. Fortunately, the coup was aborted by […]
MOVING with uncharacteristic haste, the Code of Conduct Bureau on Monday initiated the corruption trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Regarded as a landmark trial and an audacious political gambit, the case […]
The cat has finally been let out of the bag! The bombshell by Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, that no turnaround maintenance has been undertaken on the four state-owned […]
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