Editorial

GLOBAL image of nations matters a lot; and some have exploited it to good effect. A recent report on countries’ brand value showed that it is not after all the accustomed story of gloom and […]

MINISTER of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, articulated the obvious recently when he bemoaned Nigeria’s energy paradox. He highlighted the near-hopelessness of an economy that exports raw energy but imports the processed product, and […]

IT will certainly be interesting to imagine Nigeria as a colonial power. What kinds of values are likely to be transmitted to the colonies? The results may likely astound even seasoned anthropologists. In any case, […]

•It is not only about balancing, but more about fiscal discipline It is not for nothing that the nation’s debt profile has remained a major issue of focus in recent times. On the one hand […]

There is a compelling need to enlighten farmers and retailers on how to preserve food The recent panic over beans, a popular staple food, has deepened the urgent need for the education of farmers and […]

In a democratising social formation, the need to entrench democratic principles in practice cannot be over-emphasised. It becomes more compelling in times of electoral turnover and more so for a society that is anomic, afflicted […]

THE country’s most senior generals stumbled into an avoidable political storm recently by appearing at the public launch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. Reactions to media photographs of the military service chiefs were […]

President Buhari cannot afford to be silent on the mismanagement of NEMA fund Despite the subtle attempts to politicise it, the multi-billion naira scandal involving the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will not go away. […]

The payment of the minimum wage is possible if governors are prudent While receiving the tripartite committee report on minimum wage recently, President Muhammadu Buhari pledged that the federal government would quickly transmit an Executive […]

IN the spring of 2016, as Eric Bailly mulled over whether to leave Villarreal for Manchester United, he knew just who to call. The feisty defender placed a call to his fellow Ivorien, Chelsea legend […]

THE spate of gross misconduct and anti-social behaviours that include rape and paedophilia of the incestuous variant is festering at a worrisome rate in the face of the paucity of official attention. And the other […]

BOKO Haram’s audacious attacks on the 157 Task Force Battalion, Metele, Borno State, in which scores of soldiers were killed, represent a stunning reversal of fortunes for Nigeria in its fight against Islamist insurgency. Initial […]

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t like to involve myself in the nauseating debate about the rumoured cloning of President Muhammadu Buhari and the imaginative Jibril Aminu of Sudan because it is rubbish in the face of scientific […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, recently said that the government would soon launch a new National Pesticide Policy to regulate indiscriminate use of chemicals in the preservation of farm produce […]

One of the attributes of great leaders is the mastery of the art of pro – activeness, especially at very critical moments of nationhood. Unfortunately, this art is almost alien to most of our leaders […]

Hardly is it surprising that Nigerians are among those topping the list of nationals seeking asylum in Canada, as recently revealed in a report by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. That trend has been […]