Editorial
Nigeria’s brutal insecurity siege
NIGERIA has become notorious for killings. Non-state actors are plundering and engaging in murderous misadventures while the security agencies seem bereft of strategies to curb their excesses. Preside...
30th August 2024
Stop the ASUU strike
ANY new disruption in the academic calendar due to industrial actions by university-based unions will escalate the crisis in the university system. This must be stopped at all costs. In this, the Acad...
29th August 2024
Fearless in October Protests
NIGERIA is on the brink of another protest. Barely three weeks after the economically damaging #EndBadGovernance demonstrations, another round of protest looms in October. For a country that has yet t...
29th August 2024
Is NLC president above the law?
IN a debatable move, the police have invited the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, for questioning over allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony,...
28th August 2024
Mamman on path to destroying education
BOLA Tinubu’s Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, is on a fast lane to destroy the dying education sector. In an interview aired on national television, Mamman noted that the government would enfor...
28th August 2024
New CJN inherits the house of rot
THE enduring condemnation and concerns expressed by the public over pervasive corruption in the judiciary are proof that the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has inherited a house of...
27th August 2024
Sudan deserves global attention
THE armed conflict in Sudan, which began in April 2023, has killed over 15,000 and displaced over 12 million people without showing signs of abating. Hostilities persist in Khartoum, the Sudanese capi...
27th August 2024
Tinubu’s jet is needless indulgence
THE purchase of another presidential jet by the Bola Tinubu administration underlines the disdain with which the country’s rulers hold the citizens. That the President finds it convenient to indulge...
26th August 2024
…contract breaches proving costly for Nigeria
NIGERIA’S penchant for treating contracts and agreements with levity is proving costly. In the last two weeks, the media has been awash with reports of the seizure of Nigeria’s movable and immovab...
26th August 2024
Worsening Insecurity Undermines Progress
Nigeria is increasingly under siege. A new report revealing that 2,140 individuals were kidnapped across 24 states between January and July underscores the alarming insecurity gripping Africa’s most...
25th August 2024
Rising food poisoning cases call for action
IN a heart-wrenching tragedy that underscores a growing national crisis, the ancient city of Kano is reeling from the devastating loss of six lives, including a mother and her five children, due to su...
23rd August 2024
N17tn abandoned projects debacle
FOR decades, Nigeria has become a mausoleum of abandoned projects, big and small. The abandoned projects scattered across Nigeria have exacerbated the country’s chequered infrastructure development ...
23rd August 2024
Bridging digital gap vital for the economy
NIGERIA is playing catch-up in the digital age. Recent media reports indicate that the country is still way off in achieving targets set for broadband internet connectivity with 136 million, or 62 per...
22nd August 2024
Healthcare crisis goes beyond rhetoric
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu’s fresh initiatives to address the critical shortage of medical professionals are commendable in theory but face significant challenges in execution. The government must clarif...
22nd August 2024
Victims of terrorism deserve full support
TODAY, the global community commemorates the 2024 International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, themed, “Voices for Peace: Victims of Terrorism as Peace Advocates and Edu...
21st August 2024
Beyond the hunger protests
AS the dust settles on the August hunger and #EndBadGovernance protests, it is plausible to clinically appraise the country-wide demonstrations to avert the recurrence of the no-victory, all-vanquishe...
21st August 2024
Restructuring: Tinubu getting his priority wrong
BOLA Tinubu is getting his priorities wrong on the economy and restructuring. In his reaction to the Patriots’ call to undertake constitutional reform, the President replied that his focus is first ...
20th August 2024
Jumbo pay: NASS guilty as charged
AT a time when Nigerians wallow in biting hunger and excruciating hardship, which recently snowballed into the deadly #EndBadGovernance and hunger protests, revelations have again emerged that the fed...
20th August 2024
Tinubu must end petrol queues immediately
FOR decades, Nigerians have faced the frustration of petrol queues, a recurring symbol of the inefficiency, corruption, and the larger systemic failures within the country’s energy sector. While the...
19th August 2024
Tinubu must not surrender to oil thieves
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu must be willing to take up Tony Elumelu’s gauntlet on oil theft. The top businessman recently challenged the Federal Government and security agencies to disclose the identities...
19th August 2024Mpox outbreak calls for strategic measures
BARELY 24 hours after the World Health Organisation declared the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) surge in Africa as a global public health emergency, health authorities in Nigeria have been on high...
18th August 2024
Nigeria’s undeclared fuel subsidy conundrum
THE last word on subsidies has not been heard after former President Olusegun Obasanjo declared recently in a viral interview that the petrol subsidy abolished by President Bola Tinubu in his inaugura...
16th August 2024
Ondo, Edo, come out to vote
AS the off-cycle elections in Edo and Ondo states beckon, registered citizens in the states should troop out to vote for their chosen candidates without undue pressures or ‘stomach infrastructure’...
16th August 2024
The conspiracy against local refining
NIGERIA’S struggle to develop and sustain local oil refineries has long been a sore point. The oil industry, often touted as the lifeblood of the country’s economy, remains paradoxically underdeve...
15th August 2024
States should pay new minimum wage
THERE should be no hiding place for all tiers of government now that President Bola Tinubu has signed the new minimum wage law. The payment of the newly agreed minimum wage of N70,000 was meant to hav...
15th August 2024
Living in a troubled world
THE world is in turmoil today, and in W.B. Yeats’s words, things have fallen apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Peace has been truncated in Kenya, Nigeria, the UK,...
14th August 2024
Protests: Protecting journalists in Nigeria
THE recent verdict of the Lagos High Court ordering the Lagos State Government to investigate the death of a journalist, Pelumi Onifade, 20, and prosecute the killers, offers a vista of hope for unfet...
13th August 2024
Civil service needs cleaning up
NIGERIA’S civil service, an essential pillar of governance, has long been marred by corruption, inefficiency, and systemic failures that undermine the effectiveness of public administration. Things ...
13th August 2024
Nigeria’s lingering economic woes
AS expected, PwC, the professional tax and advisory firm, has raised fresh concerns about the uncertainties buffeting Nigeria’s economy with negative consequences for investor confidence. Sky-high i...
12th August 2024
Nigeria’s shameful Olympics outing
TEAM Nigeria has journeyed back to its shame at the London 2012 Olympic Games as the Paris 2024 Olympics closed on Sunday. Disgracefully, Nigeria returned without a medal, a banal mimicry of the woefu...
12th August 2024
Nigeria’s hunger crisis requires urgent action
FOR a largely agricultural country, it is incomprehensible that 172 million Nigerians cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report. The ...
11th August 2024
