THE ABANDONMENT OF ALMAJIRI SCHOOLS
There should be enlightenment campaigns to change the orientation of parents and guardians of the children When early in 2012 the federal government announced its intention to build 400 special primary...
View ArticleINEC And The Million Parties
Proliferation of political parties has consequences that many may not realise With 67 political parties already registered and 94 applications still being processed, it would seem that the Independent...
View ArticleAGAIN, IT’S JINGLE BELL, JINGLE BELL…
Monday Editorial There is need to build an ethic of human solidarity aimed at promoting the common good More than 2000 years ago, when peaceful silence lay over the face of the earth, and the night...
View ArticleFUELLING A BLEAK CHRISTMAS
There is need to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry It was a bleak Christmas in Nigeria as many people across the country spent considerable time running from one filling...
View ArticleANC AND THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN PARTIES
The outcome of ANC party congress and election holds lessons for Nigeria At a period when the prevalence of ageing leaders hanging on to power by endlessly manipulating electoral processes is becoming...
View ArticleTIME TO END JUNGLE JUSTICE
Government must discharge its responsibility of protecting lives and property While President Muhammadu Buhari last week warned that a collapse of public confidence in the justice system would have...
View ArticleLiberia: The Player As President
George Weah, former football star, is President–elect of Liberia The presidential election victory of Mr. George Opong Weah in Liberia must go beyond the adulation of his countrymen and women as...
View ArticleTIME TO RENEW HOPE IN 2018
Monday Editorial President Buhari should reposition his administration for the task at hand in the new year Perhaps to press home the all-pervasive gloom in the air, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
View ArticleTO HIJAB OR NOT HIJAB?
The Body of Benchers may need to review its rules on who to admit as a barrister The controversy involving a female Law graduate, Ms Amasa Firdaus, who was recently denied a call to the Nigerian Bar...
View ArticleMOROCCO AND THE ECOWAS BID
Nigeria’s national interest should determine our position On November 9, 2017, the House of Representatives organised a public hearing on the question of Morocco’s admission-in-principle into the...
View ArticleTHE STANDARDS OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
The universities are necessary, but they should be made to satisfy certain criteria With the recent approval by the Federal Executive Council of six additional private universities, several pertinent...
View ArticleBPE AND NON-PERFORMING FIRMS
The restructuring of wilting privatised enterprises and services is in order Perhaps because the overall success of many of the privatised public firms remains in doubt, the Bureau of Public...
View ArticleThe Nigerian Killing Fields
The authorities could do more to contain the growing familiar menu of violence The year 2018 started on a sore note following a spate of violence that took the lives of several citizens in different...
View ArticleTHE NEW YEAR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH
MONDAY EDITORIAL President Buhari may disapprove, but there is a dire need to restructure the federation The choice of the beginning of a new year to deliver a progress report and map a new policy...
View ArticleDEALING WITH THE MENACE OF CULTISM
The authorities must do more by bringing criminals to justice That cult wars and gang violence have exacerbated the climate of lawlessness and fear in the polity is no longer in doubt. What is more...
View ArticleTHE GROWING POVERTY IN THE LAND
To arrest the trend, the citizenry must begin to demand equity, fairness and accountability from their leaders While Nigeria’s labour population increased from 83.9 million in the second quarter to...
View ArticleGAS FLARE AND THE DANGERS
THURSDAY EDITORIAL The authorities should help save the nation by ensuring gas flaring ends by 2030 The programme coordinator of the Nigeria Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme in the Federal...
View ArticleTHE JUDICIARY MUST PURGE ITSELF
The NJC needs to go beyond sermonising and come down heavily on judicial officers bent on darkening our temple of justice A day to the court-ordered rerun election for Anambra Central Senatorial...
View Article2019: Between Politics And Governance
The electioneering campaigns for the next election should not be done at the expense of suffering Nigerians In what can be described as an open invitation to partisan frenzy and scramble for the power...
View ArticleTACKLING THE PROSTITUTION RING
All the relevant stakeholders must join hands to contain the scandal The biggest revelation from the immigrant crisis facing our country today with many of our stranded nationals being brought back...
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