Editorial
Nigerians, collect your PVCs, vote
FRESH disclosures by the Independent National Electoral Commission that over six million Permanent Voter Cards were not collected by voters ahead of the 2023 elections, including those issued since 20...
10th January 2025
UNILAG: Misplaced priorities killing education
THE plight of students at the University of Lagos, Akoka, stranded off-campus due to delayed hostel renovations, serves as a glaring indictment of the Federal Government’s approach to higher educati...
9th January 2025
Arrest Turji, dismantle terror networks
NIGERIANS are living in fear. They are fleeing their homes in droves as the government appears to have abandoned them to the ruthless terrorists. The recent mass exodus from over 50 communities in the...
8th January 2025
Water abstraction: Lagos cannot profit from its failures
ON Christmas Eve, the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission shut down three notable companies—Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Guinness Nigeria Plc, and FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc—for alle...
8th January 2025
New federal varsity a misnomer
LIKE his predecessors, President Bola Tinubu is elevating illogic above scientific thinking in public tertiary education. Just like Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari before him, Tinubu has create...
7th January 2025
Petrol pricing: Preventing unfair practices
JUST as the Yuletide approached, Dangote Refinery and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, through a third party, announced that they were slashing petrol prices. Dangote indicated that th...
7th January 2025
Tragedy of military’s accidental airstrikes
THE Nigerian Air Force, as a key arm of the Armed Forces, performs critical roles in counter-insurgency operations. However, in recent years, a troubling pattern has emerged: frequent accidental bombi...
6th January 2025
Crime-fighting lessons from America
IT took five days for police to arrest the prime suspect in the killing of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance firm in the United States. Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the ba...
6th January 2025
Bring human traffickers to justice
THE festering rights abuse, killings, exploitation, rape, and horror associated with human trafficking over the years have made it compelling for the government to devise a comprehensive strategy to c...
5th January 2025
States and paucity of FDI
NIGERIA’S ‘feeding bottle’ federalism is coming home to roost. The country has been running a unitary system disguised as federalism, and the negative effects of centralisation have begun to sho...
3rd January 2025
Protect health workers against abduction
THE incessant abduction of healthcare workers in Nigeria has reached alarming proportions, casting a grim shadow over the country’s embattled health sector. These abductions not only jeopardise the ...
3rd January 2025
Trump’s conviction: Lessons for Nigeria
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump’s trial, conviction, and ongoing post-conviction legal issues have thrown up interesting and novel developments in that country’s democracy. These issues hold lessons ...
2nd January 2025
Budget 2025: Inflation target, a tall order
ONE of the key assumptions underpinning President Bola Tinubu’s 2025 budget is an inflation rate of 15 per cent. While many agree that inflation will decline in 2025, the projection appears overly o...
2nd January 2025
South Korea’s constitutional crisis
DEMOCRACY is on trial in South Korea. On December 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol illegally declared martial law in that Asian country, testing the strength of constitutional democracy. The institutions an...
1st January 2025
Media under threat from familiar foes
A new report by the Media Rights Agenda that documents a disturbing trend of violence and intimidation meted out to journalists by security agencies aptly demonstrates the consistent threat against pr...
1st January 2025
Edo’s fresh posers on LG autonomy
THE two-month suspension of the local government chairmen by the Edo State House Assembly for alleged insubordination to Governor Monday Okpebholo is a sign that the autonomy granted to the LGs by the...
31st December 2024
Reverse UniAbuja name change
THE Federal Executive Council recently made a poor decision to rename the University of Abuja to Yakubu Gowon University. This imposition has several adverse implications. President Bola Tinubu should...
31st December 2024
Agricultural mechanisation is a national imperative
THE House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the non-delivery of 2,000 tractors and 100 combine harvesters promised by President Bola Tinubu in 2023 under the Presidential Food Secu...
30th December 2024
Fowl theft case, chance to review justice system
THE provocative story of a young man sentenced to death by hanging for stealing a fowl should trigger a revolution in Nigeria’s criminal justice system. Segun Olowookere was just 17 in 2010 when pol...
30th December 2024
The plight of 179m Nigerians living in dirt
A study by the State of the Nigerian Environment revealing that no fewer than 179 million people in Nigeria live in an unclean environment, is a cause for concern. It is a wake-up call to the authorit...
29th December 2024
IDEP: Better preparedness needed for epidemics
AS the international community commemorates the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness 2024 with the theme: ‘Strengthening Global Health Systems for Future Crises,’ government agencies and sta...
27th December 2024
Russia’s breakthrough in cancer
AMID the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, Russia recently announced a groundbreaking development in cancer treatment—the creation of a vaccine designed to treat cancer patients. This scien...
27th December 2024
The metering gap conundrum
THE Nigerian electricity industry seems trapped in a vicious cycle. For decades, the sector has grappled with the same challenges, with operators and consumers repeatedly complaining about the same th...
26th December 2024
A traumatic Yuletide
AS Nigerians celebrate the Yuletide, the festive cheers are clouded by unprecedented economic gloom, hunger, and fear of personal safety. The soaring cost of living has destroyed the season’s spirit...
26th December 2024
A presidential chat long on promises
AFTER 18 months in office, Bola Tinubu’s first presidential media chat gives nothing away. The President trod wearily on the old paths: the removal of petrol subsidies, the uncontrolled cost of gove...
25th December 2024
Yuletide food stampedes: Tragedies too many
AS Nigeria approaches the close of 2024, three separate stampedes occurred in the space of four days, leaving behind the dead and broken bodies of innocent Nigerians. Most of them were children and wo...
24th December 2024
Budget 2025: Balancing aspirations with fiscal realities
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu unveiled the Federal Government’s 2025 budget proposals to the National Assembly, christened ‘Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity’. With a record o...
23rd December 2024
Kidnappers’ trillion-naira paradise
THE new National Bureau of Statistics report that Nigerians paid a whopping N2.23 trillion ransom to secure the release of their kidnapped relatives between May 2023 and April 2024 is proof that kidna...
22nd December 2024
Kemi vs Shettima: Facts are sacrosanct
VICE-PRESIDENT Kashim Shettima’s attack on Kemi Badenoch after her comments on Nigeria is typical of the country’s leaders. They are hostile to criticism and denythatfacts are sacrosanct. It is on...
20th December 2024
Almajiri: The truth from within
THE North needs to tell itself the truth about theage-long almajiri system. The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule opened up recently about the social misnomer. In a rare moment of openness, S...
20th December 2024
Bullying in schools
FRESH reports of bullying in Nigerian schools have reignited public concerns about the pervasive menace plaguing both public and private institutions. The alleged bestial and potentially deadly “per...
19th December 2024
