FILLING SUPREME COURT VACANCIES
Supreme court justices must be ‘fit and proper’ persons Last Thursday’s valedictory ceremony for retired Justice Abdu Aboki has raised several pertinent questions about the apex court in Nigeria. With...
View ArticleMENTAL ILLNESS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Mental illness is assuming a worrying trend. It deserves more attention Recent declaration that some 60 million Nigerians are suffering from mental illnesses requires much more rigour. But we cannot...
View ArticleFOR ENDURING PEACE IN NIGERIA
No one should be discriminated against anywhere in the country As the world marks the 2022 International Day of Peace today, the United Nations General Assembly has declared that achieving true peace...
View ArticleTHE LAGOS DRUG BUST
The NDLEA needs all the support to do more Last Sunday, the NDLEA discovered a warehouse in a residential estate in Ikorodu, Lagos, with 1.8 tonnes of Cocaine, and a street value of about N194bn. It...
View ArticleAS POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS BEGIN…
Candidates should speak to the issues that affect the ordinary Nigerians Although electioneering season for the February 2023 general election begins officially on Wednesday, 28th September,...
View ArticleMDAS AND PADDED BUDGETS
There should be adequate consequences for proven perpetrators of the crime Financial ‘padding’ is increasingly becoming part of the nation’s budgeting system. At a recent interactive session with...
View ArticleTHE MENACE OF FIRE OUTBREAKS
The authorities should enforce building codes and regulations Even when we concede that fire outbreak in public buildings is not a new phenomenon, the rate at which they occur in our country is...
View ArticleWASTING OF RECOVERED ASSETS
Government should organise transparent public bidding and auction sessions to dispose of the assets At the back of every anti-corruption drive, no matter how untidily executed, is the intent to...
View ArticleYET ANOTHER GRID COLLAPSE
Poor electricity supply is increasingly making Nigerians more nervous than ever Almost a decade after the privatisation of the power sector, most Nigerians have come to the inescapable conclusion that...
View ArticleTHE PAYMENTS TO ‘GHOST’ WORKERS
Who are the ghost workers? It is time to confront the criminals and bring them to justice The issue of ‘ghost workers’ in the civil service has remained a recurring decimal under successive...
View ArticleSTATES AND THE DEBT CRISIS
The states must trim the enormous costs of governance and free resources for development The domestic debt outlook in many of the 36 states is increasingly darkening. From N3.03 trillion in 2015,...
View ArticleFEMALE GENDER AND INHERITANCE RIGHTS
Women, like men, have right to inherit property The customs in some cultures relating to the status of women and inheritance rights are repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience. These...
View ArticleINCESSANT BUILDING COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA…1
Regulating agencies should be alive to their responsibility In other climes, buildings don’t just collapse every other day. From the architectural design stage to civil and structural engineering,...
View ArticleINCESSANT BUILDING COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA…11
Continued from yesterday There is need to overhaul the nation’s building and construction regulations The Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) recently drew attention to the absence of...
View ArticleTASK BEFORE THE NFF PRESIDENT
Ibrahim Gusau should do well and rebuild a winning team As it has become a ritual every four years, the hullabaloo that trailed the election into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)...
View ArticleEDUCATION AND THE INSURGENCY
The authorities must go all out to ensure that children learn in protected environment It the 2022 National Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Union of Teachers last week, the Chief Executive of...
View ArticleTHE PRESIDENT AND MENTAL HEALTH
President Buhari should sign the mental health bill into law The overriding objective of the World Mental Health Day being marked today is not only to raise awareness of a challenge that afflicts...
View ArticleTAMPERING WITH THE CBN ACT
The independence of the central bank is essential for economic growth and stability In a re-enactment of what happened a decade ago when the National Assembly targeted the then Central Bank of...
View ArticleBURKINA FASO’S COUP ADDICTION
The new wave of coups in the West African sub-region is troubling In what has become a familiar spectacle, a group of soldiers led by a 35-year-old Major Ibrahim Traore announced that they had toppled...
View ArticleTHE GROWING CASES OF BANK FRAUD
The regulators should do more and restore sanity to banking operations The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has disclosed that the total amount resulting from bank fraud and forgery cases...
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