Editorial

It is most disheartening that we as Ijaws and Niger Deltans have learnt nothing from the unfortunate attrition we connived and collaborated in, that led to the fall of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration, which […]

As I was saying in part one of this offering last week, Sen. John Owan Enoh is undoubtedly on a rescue mission as far as the 2019 Cross River State governorship contest is concerned. For […]

With the official lifting of the ban on open campaigning, almost every nook and cranny of the country is getting the much-touted democracy dividends that over the years had remained elusive. Areas whose representatives and […]

FOLLOWING the Metele disaster in which 23 (according to the Nigerian Army) and 118 soldiers (according to independent sources) lost their lives and scores wounded, the Federal Government and the Armed Forces responded with defiance […]

The CBN’s Monetary Policy Committee met on November 21-22, 2018, but as usual avoided the shortest and easiest path to turning the 2018 Federal Budget (running for a course of 12 months from late June) […]

NOT for the first time, the nexus between prison congestion and the role of judges, who arbitrarily order the detention of defendants, has returned to national consciousness. Like his predecessors, the incumbent Chief Justice of […]

Trapped in the morass of a toxic privatisation, the Nigerian power sector is in dire need of a reversal of fortunes. Five years into the ownership swap deal, the promised gains of massive injection of […]

Nigeria’s economic planners may be having a bleak Christmas this year if they have any compunction left in them. It seems to be that down season once again when the world’s crude oil prices begin […]

In an era where the costs of quality education appear to be rising exponentially, the Federal Government is to be commended for introducing an insurance scheme to cover students, buildings and other infrastructure in its […]

Federal Government was reported last week, to be planning to sell electricity to Burkina Faso __ a neighbouring West African country. This rather shocking and disturbing information was revealed by Managing Director of Mainstream Energy […]

Perhaps someone other than yours truly is beginning to be seriously concerned whether this Nigerian project is working or will continue to work. The recent concern has to do with the former president, Goodluck Ebele […]

The surging tide of fears and apprehensions by concerned citizens with regards to the possibility of the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections come 2019 cannot […]

For the fourth time, President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to assent the 2018 Electoral Amendment bill passed by the National Assembly. Sources at the National Assembly confirmed that the president refused to assent the bill […]

ADMITTEDLY there is no time of the year when union strikes and the scarcity of petroleum products are convenient and welcome. But whenever it comes at Christmas/New Year season (the Yuletide), the experience is always […]

A planned increase in the salaries and allowances of officers of the Nigeria Police is bound to be like a Christmas gift to them. Their pensioners are also to benefit. The presidential gesture is well […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, recently demonstrated anew how rudderless and insincere national leadership is driving the country to the edge of failure. His “revelation” that the government’s oft-repeated promise to […]

The authorities should enforce safety standards on the waterways With the drowning of no fewer than 19 children in a boat mishap last Saturday in Lafiagi, Edu local government area of Kwara State, travelling through […]