Editorial

President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of a state of emergency on water and sanitation the other day is an eye opener that things are really bad in this (public health) sector and so require urgent solution. […]

After last week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, the Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, announced the council’s decision to slash the examination fee charged by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) from N5,000 […]

The authorities could do more to ensure sanity in the Gulf of Guinea When in August the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), an arm of the International Chamber of Commerce, released its latest report on the […]

TRUE, not everybody would agree with her, but the scathing remark by a British Member of Parliament, Priti Patel, warning the international business community to keep away from Nigeria, is brutally frank. In a damning […]

To President Muhammadu Buhari, nothing is more honourable, and dignifying than to forego other engagements and pay his last respects to the gallant officers of the Armed Forces, who paid the supreme price in the […]

The warning by Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen against the issuance of “reckless” remand orders to the police could not have come at a more auspicious time, considering the inglorious effects of such orders […]

I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, which is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice, could be sold for the national minimum wage. With […]

Much of the significant critical issues in the Cross River State 2019 governorship contest would most likely be centred on the pedigrees of the contestants. The issue of which party each candidate represents does not […]

The choice of a man to choose a career path is strictly personal. A man decides what choice of career to pursue. For those who have chosen the path of ensuring that the safety and […]

Nigeria’s Fiscal Year has since Independence in 1960, remained between January-December, and, senior citizens, may indeed, recall the annual ritual of budget speeches, by the Prime Minister or later Heads of State, on New Year’s […]

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is the strongest opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term ambition in 2019. Hence, Atiku has literarily become a nightmare […]

A report the other day that people living with disabilities have been so frustrated by official maltreatment that they had threatened to boycott the 2019 general elections is yet another pointer to lack of commitment […]

The desperation of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress to stop the growing popularity, acceptance and political momentum of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the race to become the next suitable President of Nigeria […]

Indisputably, the die is cast between the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition for the control of power particularly the central government as this tenure wraps up. However, the titanic battle will […]

The horn cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that will carry it. After bouts of politics and outright deceit, a Second Bridge across the River Niger in the Anambra /Delta axis […]

It was unmistakably eloquent that the Franchise demonstrated by the good people of Osun State in favour of His Excellency Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as the Governor will forever remain as the best gift of the […]