ECOWAS AND COMMON CURRENCY ILLUSION
MONDAY EDITORIAL The regional common currency should be shelved for now At a recent meeting in Niamey, Republic of Niger, President Muhammadu Buhari urged member countries of the Economic Community...
View ArticleBIAFRA MINES VERDICT RAISES QUESTIONS
Was the federal government out of court settlement in Biafra mines’ case altruistic? In a landmark decision, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, otherwise called the ECOWAS Court, last week ordered...
View ArticlePLIGHT OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS ABROAD
It has become imperative to invest more in education Nigerian students studying abroad are increasingly finding it difficult to pick their bills because of the slump in the country’s economy and...
View ArticleACCOUNTABILITY AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Public officials must be held to account While Nigerians, as a minimum, deserve a life free from hunger in a country so blessed with arable land and natural resources, both poverty and hunger continue...
View ArticlePreventable Disasters
Regulating agencies should be alive to their responsibilities Reports from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) indicate an alarming rate of cases of disasters in the country. But the...
View ArticleTHE GROWING BANKRUPTCY IN STATES
The smartest policy choice out of the problem is to restructure the federation According to a recent report by BudgIT, a civil society organisation, out of the 36 states, only Lagos, Rivers, Katsina...
View ArticleTHE COST OF SENSELESS KILLINGS
The solution to the frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen is ranching A few days after former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar expressed concerns over the increasing wave of violence...
View ArticleDEATH OF 26 NIGERIAN WOMEN
The drift abroad will expand in size and scope until the country puts the economy in order The discovery by the Italian authorities of the bodies of 26 Nigerian girls reportedly murdered on the...
View ArticleBEFORE ANOTHER VIOLENCE IN NIGER DELTA
For peace to reign in the country, the federal government must stop reneging on agreements Penultimate Friday, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) issued a notice calling off the ceasefire it reached with...
View ArticleEnugu Restates Commitment to Staff Training, Capacity Building
The Enugu State government has expressed its continued determination to invest resources on the training and re-training of its workforce to improve their efficiency. Declaring open a five-day capacity...
View Article‘My Vision is to Make Elizade Varsity Attractive to the World’
A Nigerian entrepreneur and founder of Elizade University, Chief Michael Ade-Ojo shared with Uchechukwu Nnaike his vision to build a world class institution, dedicated to the pursuit of academic and...
View ArticleANAMBRA ELECTION MUST BE FREE
The people must be allowed to elect the governor of their choice The excuse given yesterday by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, for the sudden withdrawal of security details of the...
View ArticleTEACHING AND THE EDUCATION SECTOR
Education is too important to be politicised. There is need to clean up the system We stand with Governor Nasir el-Rufai in his efforts to rid Kaduna State of teachers who are not worthy of their...
View ArticleSTATES AND GRAZING PROHIBITION LAW
The federal government should facilitate the transition from nomadism to ranching To stem the internecine violent clashes between herdsmen and farmers, some states have prohibited open grazing by...
View ArticleTHE RANKING OF NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
The report is a wake-up call that the police could do more Following a damning report by the 2016 World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) that ranked it as the worst in the world, the Nigeria...
View Article600 NIGERIANS ON DEATH ROW IN ASIA
The authorities could do more to curb the boom in drug trafficking Barely one year ago, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a human rights organisation, alerted the nation that about 300...
View ArticleTHE EXIT OF PRESIDENT MUGABE
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean strongman, quits after 37 years in office After 37 years in power and following a week marked by intrigues and tension, Mr Robert Mugabe on Tuesday resigned as President...
View ArticleTHE BURIAL OF 26 NIGERIANS IN ITALY
The relevant authorities should unravel why the girls were murdered With the burial in the southern city of Salerno, Italy of the 26 Nigerian female irregular migrants who were allegedly murdered on...
View ArticleEKWUEME: PASSAGE OF A NATIONALIST
Alex Ekwueme, statesman and former Vice-President of Nigeria, dies at 85 While there is a certain hypocrisy associated with the death of prominent politicians in our country, most Nigerians would agree...
View ArticleCURBING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
There is an urgent need to enforce the law on violence against persons Last Saturday, November 25, marked the United Nations International Day for the elimination of violence against women....
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