THE JUDICIARY AND CRISIS OF CREDIBILITY
All the stakeholders should work to restore integrity to the bench Apparently disturbed by the crisis of credibility that has for long dogged the judicial arm of government and the damage it is...
View ArticleTHE EFCC BRAWL WITH DSS
There is more that could be done to restore sanity to the agencies The drama at the home of a former Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Ita Ekpeyong last Tuesday between men...
View ArticleBEFORE THE TOLLGATES ARE RE-ERECTED
There should be remarkable improvement on many of the roads across the country The federal government has concluded arrangements to reintroduce toll gates in 38 points on various highways across the...
View ArticleLESSONS FROM ANAMBRA GUBER POLL
The governorship election holds lesson for future elections While the Anambra State gubernatorial election has come and gone, it also left some lessons for all the critical stakeholders in the Nigerian...
View ArticleBoko Haram And The Unfinished Business
The federal government should ensure that the country’s security and intelligence agencies coordinate and work together President Muhammadu Buhari’s reassurance, last week, that the federal government...
View ArticleFORFEITED ASSETS AND MATTERS ARISING
The EFCC and ICPC should be held to account The integrity of the anti-corruption project of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the machinery for its prosecution were called to question...
View ArticleBEFORE NATIONAL THEATRE IS SOLD
The Lagos State Government will ensure the national theatre pays off The National Theatre is one of the national assets the federal government is planning to sell so as to generate sufficient funds to...
View ArticleTHE REFINERIES AS BASKET CASE
It is time to privatise the refineries Earlier this year, we highlighted the wrong choices being made in the oil and gas sector by this administration. First, we queried the wisdom in the oil...
View ArticleORDEAL OF THE IKOYI WHISTLE-BLOWER
Government must do more to rekindle public trust in the whistle-blowing policy The controversy surrounding the reward to the whistle-blower who instigated the process that led to the discovery of over...
View ArticleHuman Rights and The Revolt Against SARS…(1)
Security agents are ironically the greatest violators of human rights Following an alleged anti-judicial killing in Lagos of a young man by some operatives of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad...
View ArticleHUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REVOLT AGAINST SARS…(2)
MONDAY EDITORIAL There is an urgent need to review the recruitment process into the security agencies The decision by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to reorganise the Special...
View ArticleFINANCING HEALTH SERVICES IN NIGERIA
Isaac Adewole, Olusoji Adeyi and Rachid Benmessaoud argue that the country needs to invest more in the health of the citizens As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark Universal Health Coverage...
View ArticleFUEL SCARCITY IN FESTIVE SEASONS
The downstream sector of the petroleum industry should be managed transparently Less than two weeks to Christmas, there seems to be no solution in sight to the problem of long queues which recently...
View ArticleCURTAILING THE MIGRANT CRISIS
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa must do more to address poverty In apparent response to the international outrage that greeted the recent Cable News Network (CNN) documentary with footage of where...
View ArticlePREVALENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS
There is an urgent need to embark on enlightenment campaigns against the use of hard drugs The alarming rate at which vulnerable groups among the young and old are getting hooked on illicit drugs...
View ArticleBOKO HARAM AND THE $1 BILLION QUESTION
The cost of prosecuting the war against Boko Haram is rising. Do we need to pay more to be safer? It is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of some of the decisions being taken by the current...
View ArticlePUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND STRIKES WITHOUT END
MONDAY EDITORIAL The authorities must find a way to end incessant strikes in the universities It is a measure of what tertiary education has become in our country today that many Nigerians are not even...
View ArticleWHEN SERVICE MEN COMMIT CRIMES
There is urgent need to weed out criminals within the security agencies The Department of State Services (DSS) recently raised the alarm on influx of small arms and light weapons into the country and...
View ArticleNIGERIA AND THE HIV/AIDS BURDEN
Government must do more to contain the epidemic The misery index in the country seems to be increasing on all fronts. At a time many countries have learnt to tame the HIV/AIDS challenge, it is...
View ArticlePDP CONVENTION AND THE DAY AFTER
The new leadership should work hard to change the course of democracy – for the better With the successful conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention last week, there are...
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