Editorial

In about four weeks, the Eighth National Assembly will be dissolved. For a parliament that a lot was expected from, being dominated by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, which rode to power on […]

It may not have come as a surprise when a recent survey by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), named the Nigeria Police Force, whose core duties include the prevention and detection of crime, […]

The ranks of Africa’s “big men” thinned further as popular uprisings in Algeria culminated in the ouster of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime and that of his counterpart in Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, this month. These dictators […]

Super Eagles are a big brand in Africa. On global stage, the team is also highly rated because of the enormous talents of the country scattered all over the world. Any tournament in Africa without […]

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, […]