Editorial

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 […]

ANOTHER misadventure in the bid to repair the country’s ailing refineries has taken off with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s award of a $50 million contract to an Italian firm – Maire Tecnimont – to […]

A recent bandying of mere figures by authorities in Abuja to the extent that they needed a whopping $1 trillion dollars worth of investment to modernise energy infrastructure in the country cannot impress anyone, after […]

It is five years today since Nigeria slipped into infamy: five years since the remote town of Chibok in Borno State, powered tragically into global spotlight. It was the day Nigeria’s former president, the military, […]

THE way Nigerians from all walks of life have responded to the reported illness of a former Captain of Nigeria’s national football team, the Green Eagles (now Super Eagles), Mr. Christian Chukwu (popularly called “The […]

THE Federal and Osun State governments must quickly rally the law enforcement agencies to respond to the distress call of the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, over the alleged “criminal poisoning” […]

A recent report that the President had rejected a strange bill containing special fund to complete a notorious money gulper called Ajaokuta Steel project should not be twisted as a bad idea. It is good […]

As the world continues to witness significant progress in the United Nations campaign for the global eradication of tuberculosis by 2030, Nigeria remains a miserable straggler among her peers, with little or no hope of […]