Two Years Without Polio, But…
Despite the remarkable milestone, there is still need to be committed to the fight against the crippling disease Polio, that debilitating illness that has crippled thousands of Nigerian children, is on...
View ArticleTIME TO ADDRESS THE DILAPIDATED ROADS
MONDAY EDITORIAL The authorities could help secure the people as well as the economy by fixing the roads In unveiling his plan for federal roads last December, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing,...
View ArticleTHE TRAGEDY OF SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan politicians should sink their differences in the interest of their long suffering people Barely three months after the United Nations forced a delicate peace pact between first...
View ArticleTHE ALLEGATION AGAINST BURATAI
Government’s indifference to the case will haunt the anti-corruption war The controversy surrounding the alleged offshore investments of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has...
View ArticleBETWEEN ARASE AND IDRIS
The new Inspector General of Police should get his facts right That the relationship between Ibrahim Idris, the acting Inspector General of Police and his immediate predecessor, Solomon Arase is not...
View ArticleA House Divided Against Itself
Budget padding is just one of the haunting scandals of a troubled National Assembly The presidential system of government that we practice in Nigeria today comes with a constitutional provision that no...
View ArticleRAPE OF NIGERIAN MINORS
The authorities must do more to protect the Nigerian child The growing rate of reported rape cases of minors in Nigeria is becoming unacceptable. What is more dreadful and unacceptable is that those...
View ArticleTHE PERENNIAL FLOODING CHALLENGE
The country must pay attention to the environment From Ibadan, Oyo State, where a family lost its bread winner and two children to Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, where no fewer than a thousand people were...
View ArticleTHE TRAVAILS OF CITIZEN KOREDE
The unintended cost of child abuse is high on the country The arrest last week of Mr. Francis Taiwo, a Celestial Church of Christ pastor who starved and kept his nine-year-old son, Korede, in chains...
View ArticleTHE SIEGE ON IKORODU
Security agencies need the cooperation of the people to tame the criminals Last week, the military joined forces with other security agencies and invaded the creeks of Ikorodu, a crime infested area of...
View ArticleSTRIKE AND THE HEALTH SECTOR
Monday Editorial Government must endeavour to keep to terms of mutual agreements From the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to the Joint Health...
View ArticleTHE KADUNA REPORT ON SHIITES KILLINGS
Even with all its lapses, government may do well to implement the report The Kaduna State Government last week released the full report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to unravel the...
View ArticleDOLLAR SUBSIDY FOR PILGRIMS
The government’s decision is perplexing, as it carries a big economic cost Everyone understands that the country’s economy is being squeezed by falling revenue as a result of the sharp decline in oil...
View ArticleNIGERIA AND THE 2016 RIO OLYMPICS
The ghosts of the past once again embrace the preparations for the games In one of those extraordinary stories for which Nigeria has become familiar, especially in the football world, the Under-23...
View ArticleIMO’S UNACCEPTABLE POLICY
The back to land policy for civil servants has further exposed the government’s dilemma Unable to work out a more coherent strategy for shoring up the economy of his state, Imo State Governor Rochas...
View ArticleAS FLOODS WREAK MORE HAVOC…
Government must do more for the endangered communities Less than a week after the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) issued an alert that no fewer than 11 states were prone to flooding, the...
View ArticleTHE EXECUTION IN INDONESIA
Government must get serious about containing the trafficking in hard drugs Three Nigerians were among the four convicted drug traffickers recently executed in Indonesia. The execution of 10 others was...
View ArticleTIME FOR ACTION ON THE PIB
The country needs the petroleum industry act for better management of the oil and gas sector of the economy Even with all the anticipated positive impact of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) on the oil...
View ArticleFIVE WEEKS, THREE JAILBREAKS
Prison staff who connive with the inmates should be prosecuted At a time our country is facing serious security challenges, it should worry those in authority that we have experienced, within a period...
View ArticleCONSEQUENCES OF ARMS PROLIFERATION
Everyone is endangered, unless the authorities move fast to stem the trend If anyone was in doubt about the danger posed to national security by the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons...
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