Editorial

A disclosure the other day by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) boss about possible pursuit of 85,000 millionaire tax defaulters is curious and unfortunate. There is no reason for serious alarm before such a […]

Aviation business in the country recorded a novelty recently when a state-owned airline – Ibom Air – was inaugurated in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Two out of the three aircraft acquired for the fleet were […]

The just suspended industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which disrupted university education calendar for months, has again underscored a stark reality that the Federal Government alone cannot effectively fund tertiary […]

BETTER known as Agbako, (“Calamity”), Alhaji Abdulsalam Sanyaolu, aka, Charles Olumo, has enjoyed an acting career which encompasses the emergence and development of Nigeria’s burgeoning movie industry. Notorious for his bald head, sinister goatee, hoarse […]

It is all over but the reckoning. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) beat his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by polling a commanding 15,191,847 votes to […]

Already dripping with blood, Nigeria’s knife-edge election landscape failed to atone for its vicious past when violence flared up during last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, claiming lives. On Monday, Reuters, an international news […]

THE unveiling of new technology tools recently to track crude production and shipment represents a practical step to end leakages and the industrial scale theft of Nigeria’s crude oil and gas. Though welcome for its […]

After a bitter and divisive electoral contest, Muhammadu Buhari is set to govern Nigeria as President for another four years. Much had been made of the challenge of his main rival, Atiku Abubakar, but following […]

NIGERIA’s deepening frustration in her bid to boost non-oil revenue is a self-inflicted morass. Apparently finding it difficult to meet its revenue projections, the Federal Inland Revenue Service has vowed again to clamp down on […]

The claim and counterclaims between the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and a number of other interested parties on the number of casualties in the controversial attack on Kajuru village in Kaduna South […]

Despite the wobbly nature of her economy, there are no serious indications yet that Nigeria is ready to break away from the clasp of the cyclical rise and fall in crude oil prices. This view […]

It reads like a bizarre tale, which started when a group of Nigerians, reportedly travelling from France, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on the evening of February 16. The next morning, travelling […]

The meltdown last week in Kajuru, Kaduna State, is a crying shame on our dear country. We demand that those in positions of authority should stop the spiral down to narcissism; and save the community […]

FOURS before polling booths opened last Saturday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the rescheduling of the 2019 elections to new dates. The presidential and National Assembly polls are probably taking place right now […]

In the preparation for the visit of President Buhari to Lagos the other day, the trailers and tankers that had turned the heart of Lagos metropolis into a parking lot and reduced vehicular movement for […]

Tension is mounting in the global arena with the sabre-rattling by the United States President, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over alleged violation of a nuclear arms proliferation protocol between their countries, […]

WHILE receiving the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu, during a courtesy visit to his office recently, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler, said the service, in […]

The authorities should stop wasting police officers trained at great expense It has become fairly routine in the Nigeria Police Force to retire senior officers immediately an acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) is appointed. Mostly […]

Reactions ranging from hand-wringing to fatalistic acceptance have trailed the downward review by International Monetary Fund (IMF) of Nigeria’s 2019 growth rate from 2.3 per cent (which the IMF itself had soothsaid in October 2018) […]