Editorial

Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perception Index, which was released recently, offers yet another fitting opportunity for a close-up shot of the performance of the Muhammadu Buhari government in the fight against graft. For a government […]

For the past two weeks, all eyes have been focused on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, a public agency saddled with the task of providing remedial therapy for Nigeria’s troubled tertiary education landscape. Shortly after […]

From party officials’ half-truths, to wild conspiracy theories, to fabricated news articles, fake news has spread far and wide. Fake news is not new to Nigeria. In the 2015 elections, for example, a 55-minute documentary […]

A suggestion that there should be a uniform examination for final year university students nationwide to address fallen standards does not deserve any further debate because it is flashy. No doubt, the need for the […]

As Lassa fever scourge continues to rear its ugly head in the country, it is important to follow the exemplary attitude of Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State who was once afflicted but has turned […]

The passage of a bill seeking to criminalise the irritant estimated billing in the House of Representatives is a step in the right direction.The Senate should not delay passage of and concurrence on the same […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, from office. The president, who said he was acting on an ex parte order from the Code of Conduct Tribunal […]

The problem of Almajiri in Nigeria, particularly in the North, represents clear and present danger. The danger, however, is not regional biased. It poses a grave danger to all the national facets. Almajiri, which has […]

Football in the domestic league was fun in the 80s and 90s because of the traditional teams in the elite cadre of the league at the time. The stadium is always full when some of […]

The prevalent of kidnapping and ritual killings in Ondo and Ekiti states has not only brought anxiety to residents of the two neighbouring states, but also heightened their nightmare lately. For Ondo and Ekiti, the […]

The 2019 presidential debate by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) which held without the two leading presidential candidates, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]

Except the unabashed pretenders to the throne of equity and transparency, Nigerians need not be shocked by the murkiness and ravenous appetite with which the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has been identified. If […]

The issue of national minimum wage has always been difficult to deal with. Available evidence indicates that left-leaning political parties, aka Progressives, are usually pro-labour while right-leaning parties, aka Conservatives, are pro-business. As to be […]

Top-flight football referees in Nigeria are contending with a critical crisis. Two major incidents that concern them have threatened the 2018/19 Nigeria Professional Football League season, which got underway on January 13. On the opening […]

Dear Your Excellency, I have chosen to write this letter to Your Excellency for the enviable role that your country plays as champion of Democracy and the Rule of Law. I am also writing you […]

I sometime stop in amazement when I remember how much I supported Buhari’s presidency bid since 2007. After three unsuccessful shots at the presidency, General Muhammadu Buhari finally assumed Nigeria’s top office in 2015; riding […]

This pattern of partiality or injustice is indefensible. In short, President Muhammadu Buhari has wittingly declared war against Nigeria, by attempting to rubbish the concept of justice… Accordingly, this pattern must be resisted by all […]

THE passage by the House of Representatives last week of a bill criminalising “Estimated Billing” is a landmark legislative intervention in the country’s troubled power sector. The envisaged law is expected to deliver longsuffering Nigerian […]

It is erroneous to hinge the implementability of the 2019 Budget (indeed and federal budget) on the level of the price and output of crude oil relative to the set benchmarks. The (naira) expenditure estimates […]

Unsurprisingly, the Central Bank of Nigeria has reactivated the plan to make more Nigerians gain access to financial services. Currently, millions are excluded from the formal financial services on offer by the deposit money banks, […]