RECKLESS DRIVING ON ABUJA ROADS
The FRSC may do well to enforce traffic laws That the roads in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are the widest and smoothest in Nigeria is not in doubt. But driving on those roads is now being...
View ArticleThe Tragedy At Kano Airport
The government should reinforce security and intelligence at the major airports in the country While we rejoice over the release by the Saudi authorities of Ms Zainab Aliyu who was incarcerated...
View ArticleCURBING FLIGHT DELAYS, CANCELLATIONS
Passengers need better services from the airlines The major challenge in air travel in Nigeria is frequent delay of flights and sometimes, outright cancellation. A passenger on scheduled travel...
View ArticleBEFORE PART-TIME CONSTABLES EMERGE
Everything should be done to ensure that the constables do not cause more harm than good Without any doubt, effective policing is Nigeria’s current most pressing challenge. But the decision by the...
View ArticleSTATE OF THE IDP CAMPS
The challenges of the internally displaced persons should be addressed The humanitarian situation in the internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) camps across the country begs for urgent and prompt...
View ArticleSANITISING COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION
There is need for a constitutional review to redefine the role and structure of local government In a bid to sanitise the recklessness and impunity at the third tier of government, the Nigerian...
View ArticleTHE CHALLENGE BEFORE NEDC
The commission should make judicious use of the resources at its disposal With 541 government parastatals, commissions and agencies (statutory and non-statutory) in the country, many of them with...
View ArticleBuhari Presidency: The Next Four Years…
At the verge of President Buhari’s inauguration for a second term, the nation is invited to take stock and to extend a wish list to the imminent administration Based strictly on his chosen three...
View ArticleTHE IMPERATIVE OF WIDENING THE TAX NET
MONDAY EDITORIAL VAT should be held back for more people in the tax net A national consensus seems to have emerged that increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate at this point will deepen the economic...
View ArticleTHE EXIT OF CJN ONNOGHEN
The retirement of Justice Walter Onnoghen holds lessons for Nigeria The acceptance by President Muhammadu Buhari of the voluntary retirement of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria...
View ArticleMENTAL ILLNESS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
There is need to pay more attention to mental health Mental illness is assuming a disturbing trend in the country. A recent disclosure by a team of medical personnel from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital...
View ArticleFUEL SUBSIDY AND THE WASTED TRILLIONS
Fuel is subsidised at a huge cost to the people and the economy While submitting the report of its committee on petroleum downstream on the promissory note programme and a bond issuance for oil...
View ArticleA WINNING RECIPE
Peter Ishaka writes that JAMB needs all the support in its crusade for quality education Nigeria’s premier institution of higher learning, the University of Ibadan, last Tuesday held an orientation...
View ArticleZAMFARA GOVERNOR’S MISPLACED PRIORITY
The government should prioritise projects that will impact the mass of the people That Zamfara is one of the most traumatised and backward states in Nigeria today is not in doubt. Governor Bello...
View ArticleObservers’ Reports on 2019 Election
There is need for fundamental reforms in order to restore integrity to the polls After two decades of uninterrupted democracy, the challenge of holding free, fair and credible elections in the country...
View ArticleYET ANOTHER ACCUMULATION OF DEBTS
MONDAY EDITORIAL The authorities must be circumspect in piling up debts While many government officials argue that Nigeria’s current debt is still within the permissible three per cent threshold...
View ArticleWHEN COUNCIL OFFICIALS GO AWOL
Council officials should live among their people If the essence of creating councils was to bring government closer to the people, engender speedy rural development and ensure that services and...
View ArticleFIXING THE LAGOS-BADAGRY EXPRESSWAY
The Lagos –Badagry road deserves immediate attention The Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Nigeria’s busiest land entry route, is well positioned to bring great glory and gains to the country. But rather than...
View ArticleDEALING WITH THE CANCER EPIDEMIC
The authorities could do more to contain the raging disease While we only know of prominent people who have died as a result of the disease, there is no doubt that cancer has become a huge burden in...
View ArticleNIGERIA AND THE GLOBAL PEACE INDEX
The present ranking is another wake-up call That the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which is described as the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness, retained Nigeria on the same...
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