Editorial

IT is never an easy task picking up the pieces after an acrimonious electoral season, but President Muhammadu Buhari can give the healing process a huge lift by signing the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018 into […]

A report that the Federal Government failed to markedly implement the capital budget in fiscal 2017 continues a worrying trend of consumption over investment. Findings by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission that only N1.4 trillion of […]

In an apparent extension of the Arab Spring dubbed by some observers as Arab Spring 2.0, Sudan’s long time ruler, President Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the military the other day in the same manner […]

A report that some University teachers who served as returning officers were fingered as accessories after the fact of some rigging in 2019 election is very embarrassing and tragic. Alas, if university dons and administrators […]

A revelation that N353 billion worth of gold smuggled out of the country was sold in the international market is another wake-up call for more responsible governance in the country. According to the Mines and […]

With the power to deregister political parties on account of their abysmal performance, the Independent National Electoral Commission is under pressure to wield it now that the 2019 elections are over. There are 91 registered […]

The recent pronouncement by the Federal Government approving N100 billion for the completion of the ‘orphaned’ East West Road was supposed to have elicited a high level of excitement from motorists making use of it […]

That Nigeria’s leader who has reportedly spent one year, 39 days abroad in three years, 10 months he has been in office has also been the one lamenting the country’s loss of over N400 billion […]

NIGERIA is a polity steeped in bewildering oddities. Amidst a suffocating infrastructure deficit, a chunk of the constituency projects supposedly targeted at driving socio-economic growth are never executed, noted Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman of the […]

In about five weeks from now, the fifth circle of the Nigeria’s democratic process since 1999 would come to an end. On May 29 this year, a new set of leaders would mount the saddle […]

SOME prominent Northerners are once more trying to jolt the elite out of their lethargy as poverty, deprivation and insecurity spike in the region. The first salvo came from Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, whose […]

Nigeria’s senior women national team, the Super Falcons, were in devastating form as they defeated an Iceland team, UMF Selfoss, 6-1 in a friendly game. Striker Courtney Dike, within 19 minutes, recorded a hat trick, […]

FOOTBALL, often described as the “beautiful game,” is fast losing its allure to racism. From Italy to the United Kingdom, Montenegro to Serbia and Germany to France, football is under siege from a new wave […]

The Nigerian condition in terms of the depreciating living conditions of the people is common knowledge. Significantly, Nigeria is currently ranked 157th out of 189 countries on the human development index (HDI). Not long ago, […]

After a decade-long hiatus, Tiger Woods is back in the upper echelons of golf. In dramatic circumstances, Woods, 43, claimed the 2019 Masters at Augusta in the United States by one stroke on Sunday ahead […]

This year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration a couple of months ago triggered discussions of sad memories of our tortuous journey through military incursion into politics, which consequences were also felt in the just concluded […]

It was the world-acclaimed Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, who, exasperated with his country’s leaders, succinctly captured the leadership crisis plaguing the Nigerian state in these haunting words: ‘the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely […]

A suggestion that the performance of the 91 political parties in the country would be reviewed and decision taken on their future after the conclusion of all election matters by the Independent National Electoral Commission […]