Editorial

SHEHU ALIYU SHAGARI (1925 – 2018) Shehu Shagari, former President of Nigeria, dies at age 93 The death, on Friday at age 93, of Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari has robbed our […]

The death of the first executive president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, at the age of 93 on Friday 28, December 2018, at Abuja National Hospital marked the end of an […]

It is curious that the Federal Government’s recent ban on sale of syrups containing codeine as one decisive step towards stemming the phenomenal and widespread abuse of that and many other drugs by Nigerians has […]

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Living to tell the Tale) The road to Shagari village from […]

My person of the year is the person that had the greatest impact on Nigeria in 2018 for good or ill. The year 2018 provides a marvelous opportunity to choose our next president who will […]

Failure writ large is manifest in the latest labour figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics showing Nigeria’s unemployment rate rising higher to 23 per cent by the third quarter of this year. Belying […]

A major problem confronting start-ups or what is generally known as Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria is essentially how to raise the seed money needed to take off. It has remained a […]

Again the country has been thrown into another cycle of mourning by the brutal murder of Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd). There was a report at press time that the police detectives had arrested […]

The Consumer Protection Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently disclosed that Nigerian commercial banks refunded N23billion to their customers in the eleven months leading up to November 2018. This came on the […]

Today, Nigerian Christians join the rest of their brothers and sisters in other countries of the world to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ whose teachings form the fulcrum of the Christian faith. Beyond the […]

Each year, Nigeria loses trillions of naira to oil theft through deliberate sabotage and vandalisation of the pipelines. Surprisingly, this criminal activity is daily assuming a fear-provoking proportion as the vandals are becoming more daring […]

The rising cases of boat accidents on Nigerian waterways is a source of concern. So many people have lost their lives in boat accidents which have become so rampant that hardly a fortnight passes without […]

AS political office seekers criss-cross the country, wooing voters ahead of the 2019 elections, the issue of the right leadership at all levels to restore hope to a traumatised population has returned to the front […]

AS Nigerians prepare to elect new leaders at various levels, the burning issue of corruption has been re-ignited by some ongoing charges of graft sticking to a sizeable number of candidates seeking elective offices. While […]

Echoes of deficiencies in the country’s airport facilities have been triggered by the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ union in its recent call to the Federal Government to intervene in remedying the anomaly. Under focus are […]

The disclosure by Kaduna State’s Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Mallam Abdulkadir Kassim, that the Federal Government has earmarked N5 billion for development of ranches in the state is information passed through the […]

The Lagos traffic condition gets worse by the day. The bridges to Apapa Port have become parking lots for trailers and tankers, thus causing gridlock around Apapa, to the extent that residents have issued an […]