BEYOND EDO SPEAKER’S REMOVAL
Lawmakers must take their job seriously For a record fourth time within a period of two years, the Edo State House of Assembly produced a new Speaker last week following another free-for-all fight...
View ArticleFail JAMB, Get University Admission!
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has got its sums badly wrong. The nation will pay dearly for the mistake if allowed to stand We stand with the founder of Afe Babalola University Ado...
View ArticleFATALITIES ON THE WATERWAYS
MONDAY EDITORIAL The authorities must ensure that minimum safety standards are enforced No fewer than 12 persons died last Sunday in a boat accident in the Ilashe area of Lagos while some other...
View ArticleINAPPROPRIATE PRESIDENTIAL RIOT ACT
Tough talk will do little to resolve the prevailing agitations.There is need to build bridge over troubled waters Returning from his 103-day medical vacation abroad, President Muhammadu Buhari, gave a...
View ArticleTHE POLICE VERSUS SENATOR MISAU
There is more to the controversy The Nigeria Police, last weekend, declared Senator Isah Misau, Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, a deserter who left the service in controversial circumstances. A...
View ArticleEID MUBARAK!
It is time to imbibe the virtues of obedience, sacrifice and humility As Muslims all over the world celebrate the festival of Eid al-Adha, better known as Eid-el-Kabir, yet another opportunity has been...
View ArticleLessons From The Kenyan Supreme Court
The speedy ruling on the country’s presidential election dispute holds lessons for Nigeria By a majority of four to two, the Supreme Court in Kenya on Friday nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta’s...
View ArticleTHE SEARCH FOR MISSINGPERSONS
TUESDAY EDITORIAL The authorities could do more to end the anxiety of relatives Nigeria, last Thursday, joined the rest of the world to honour the disappeared and missing. The National Technical...
View ArticleTHE CHALLENGE OF REMAND HOMES
There is urgent need to fix the remand homes in the country The Government Remand Home, Sapele, Delta State, has had far less attention from the authorities than required and we can see the...
View ArticleTHE NBS REPORT ON BRIBERY
The report merely confirms that the roots of corruption in the police and judiciary are deep and wide The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently released a report on bribery in Nigeria. A total...
View ArticleADDRESSING CASES OF BUILDING COLLAPSE
There is need to overhaul the nation’s building and construction regulations In order to address the problem of the all-too frequent cases of collapsed buildings in the country, the National Council...
View ArticleAKWA IBOM CHURCHES AS PARASTATAL
Governor Udom Emmanuel is doing a remarkable job, writes Aniefiok Macauley Reuben Abati, a former Special Adviser on Media to President Goodluck Jonathan is a man who ordinarily should command our...
View ArticleIssues In NNPC Appointments
Lopsided appointments breed discontent and exacerbate tension in the polity The appeal by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to President Muhammedu Buhari on the recent reorganisation at the Nigerian National...
View ArticleYET ANOTHER DOCTORS’ STRIKE
MONDAY EDITORIAL Government must implement agreements freely entered Nigerians woke up last Monday to receive the sad news of an indefinite nationwide strike by medical practitioners in all federal...
View ArticleDEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
TUESDAY EDITORIAL Lagos rekindles hope on the war against domestic violence From physical and verbal abuse, to rape and even murder, domestic violence manifests itself in many forms in Nigeria today....
View ArticleFROM RECESSION TO RECOVERY
The recession may be over, but hard times are still here The report last week by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that Nigeria has exited its worst economic recession in more than two decades,...
View ArticleTAX REFORM, NOT THREATS PLEASE!
The federal government’s recent threats against tax defaulters will not help its tax reform policy In a country where government is alive to its responsibility by providing the basic needs for its...
View ArticleSTATES AND THE UBEC FUND
The states may do well to access to the idle funds In a bid to help the Nigerian child access good education, especially at the foundation level, the federal government established an intervention...
View ArticleTime To Suspend The ‘Python Dance’
President Buhari should withdraw the army from the Southeast in the nation’s interest That the situation in the Southeast has almost reached a tipping point is an understatement. Even if that is the...
View ArticleSTATES AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY PLAN
MONDAY EDITORIAL The states must devise measures to run on their own steam Despite the recent euphoria that greeted the announcement that Nigeria had come out of recession, the most fervent optimist...
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