Editorial

WITH the emergence of candidates of all the 91 registered political parties at all levels of electoral contest, the stage is set for the formal flag-off of the campaigns and other electioneering activities. This is […]

AFTER decades of apathy that allowed defiant oil companies to get away with massive environmental degradation through rampant gas flaring, the Federal Government now appears to be taking some interest in stricter regulation of oil […]

AFTER many days of shameless denials and equivocation, Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2. Since then, the world has been in a state […]

THE unfolding drama at the National Health Insurance Scheme exposes anew the latest rancid, abjectly weak and dubious approach to the anti-graft war under President Muhammadu Buhari. There, the Executive Secretary, Usman Yusuf, inebriated by […]

The Islamic State of West Africa Province should not be allowed to recruit the 13.2 million out-of-school children in Nigeria who could serve as breeding criminals for kidnapping and armed robbery. The insurgents are desperate […]

As the Office of the Citizen is becoming increasingly proactive about accountability and transparency in the governance process, it is also important for citizens and those in authorities to note the correlation between diligent tax […]

The recent annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank held in Bali, Indonesia earlier in October 2018 came up with reports that are quite worrisome for keen watchers of developments in the Nigerian […]

The statistics are simply scary, sordid and scandalous; looking at Nigeria’s Human Development Index, HDI, vis-a-vis its enormous natural endowments. For instance, that the world’s sixth largest producer of crude oil, with a maximum capacity […]

Faced with a Catch 22 situation, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo acquitted himself creditably – he ate his words and went for the lesser of two evils. In military parlance, he went for the soft target. By […]

Until recently when the erstwhile Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, (Turaki Adamawa), began to attract my attention in a very edifying and ennobling manner, I had almost concluded that President Muhammadu Buhari had […]

Penultimate Friday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, picked former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi, as is running mate in the all-important presidential election of 2019. Expectedly, that choice did also attract […]

It is unfortunate that humanity is watching with seeming helplessness as the Islamic State of West Africa Province faction of Boko Haram massacres women and girls in Nigeria in circumstances that leave a bad taste […]

It’s hard to imagine any regular TV viewer who hasn’t heard of Suits. However, for the purposes of the few who may belong to that category, Suits is a legal drama series created by Aaron […]

A report the other day that the Federal Government was ready to offer the Ajaokuta Steel Mill for sale to finance 2018 budget is curiously casual and contemptuous. According to the report, the proposed sale […]

The entire world woke up on 2nd October to the rude and shocking news that Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi had ‘disappeared’ while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Ankara Turkey. Khashoggi had been […]

At no time has the world been closer to the tipping point in climate change than now, leading scientists have warned. They have, therefore, called for urgent and unprecedented measures to pull it from the […]

BOKO Haram has sent out another strong message that it is still a force to be reckoned with. In an act of pure evil, the Islamists executed an aid worker, Hauwa Liman, on Monday. A […]

It may be necessary for those who lead this country at all levels to freeze politics somehow and look at the governance system of the country’s Central Bank, whose role has always come under fire […]

The relative peace currently prevailing in the country’s public university system appears to be under some serious threat. The frequency of strikes by the various unions, namely the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and […]

THE state of the Nigerian currency, the naira, is to all intents and purposes appalling. Not only has its value regularly plummeted against other currencies like the dollar, the pound or the euro, the physical […]