Editorial
Heading off World Bank’s poverty projection
A new projection by the World Bank on poverty should set off alarm bells in the corridors of power in Nigeria. The World Bank has projected that poverty in Nigeria will rise by 3.6 percentage points b...
5th May 2025
Non-vaccination epidemic: Save the Nigerian child
THE Nigerian child faces a precarious future in its health. The country’s low priority on its children’s health and well-being indicates this. UNICEF’s latest report that Nigeria has the highest...
4th May 2025
IG must enforce PMF withdrawal order
THE Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, deserves no applause yet. He recently ordered that the Police Mobile Force guarding VIPs be withdrawn immediately. For many Nigerians, his order is t...
2nd May 2025
WPD 2025: Is the Nigerian press truly free?
NIGERIA finds itself at a critical juncture as the world marks World Press Freedom Day on May 3, under the theme “Reporting in the Brave New World–The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Fr...
2nd May 2025
Labour Day: Bleak future for Nigerian workers
AS the world marks Labour Day 2025, the future of the Nigerian worker appears bleak. While the Nigerian Labour Congress must agitate for the dignity of the Nigerian worker, the federal and state gover...
1st May 2025
Prevent recurrence of Lotto Bridge damage
NIGERIA suffers from woeful infrastructure and lawless damage to the scant ones available. One instance of lawlessness and poor traffic regulation is the damage caused to the bridge at the Lotto Inter...
30th April 2025
In support of diaspora voting
THE journey to achieving diaspora voting as part of the crucial reforms for credible polls has been long, bumpy, and tortuous. The National Assembly, which should deliver it and institute other reform...
30th April 2025
Dollar for local transactions
A country’s currency matters; therefore, the naira should matter. Yet, the naira, like the currency of many import-dependent economies, has one denominator: weakened currencies, caused mainly by unb...
29th April 2025
Outrageous estimated electricity bills
OVER 11 years after the privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector, it is ridiculous that millions of electricity customers do not have prepaid meters, and their billing for electricity consumed is sti...
29th April 2025
Aso Villa’s insular solar power project
THE Federal Government’s decision to install a N10 billion solar power system at the Aso Rock is a clear admission that Nigeria’s power sector is in ruins. Worse, it advertises that the leaders ar...
28th April 2025
Crushing Boko Haram’s resurgence
THE resurgence of the terrorist Boko Haram sect in parts of the North-East has set alarm bells ringing again. When Nigerians thought that the lawless group had been significantly degraded, it began to...
28th April 2025
Insecurity and incompetence of security chiefs
NIGERIA is teetering on the brink. From Niger to Kaduna, Zamfara to Sokoto, Borno to Kwara and Plateau to Benue, Islamic terrorists, bandits, and Fulani herders are painting the landscape with innocen...
27th April 2025
World Malaria Day: Tougher efforts needed
AS the world marks World Malaria Day 2025, themed “Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, it is a sobering reminder that malaria, a disease long relegated to the annals of preventab...
25th April 2025
NASS’s divisive LG creation bill
NIGERIA remains in political chaos over the structure and administration of local government areas. At the core of the quagmire is a flawed federal system that must be corrected to advance grassroots ...
25th April 2025
CBEX scam: Folly of Greed
ONCE again, another cycle of financial anguish has been repeated in Nigeria. The collapse of the so-called Crypto Bridge Exchange has left over 600,000 Nigerians devastated, with N1.3 trillion disappe...
24th April 2025
Student loan scheme failing, it mustn’t
THE recent exposé concerning the misgovernance of funds under the Nigerian Education Loan Fund is deeply troubling. President Bola Tinubu, his Education Minister, Tunji Alausa, and the Managing Direc...
24th April 2025
Privatise Ajaokuta Steel Company now!
FOR over four decades, the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State has stood as a silent, rusting symbol of Nigeria’s consistently inept leadership. Sixteen presidents and heads of state have ruled Nig...
23rd April 2025
From patient to hostage, a health system in bondage
NIGERIA’S healthcare system is in bondage. This was buttressed by the detention of a couple and their newly born baby by the authorities of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital over unpaid deli...
23rd April 2025
Citizen Shariff: Autocracy taking root
NIGERIA is drifting towards autocracy. The unjustifiable ordeal of a young woman, Hamdiyya Shariff, in Sokoto State, lends credence to this, as do other instances of political leaders’ intolerance o...
22nd April 2025
Don’t scapegoat Plateau governor
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has not shown much zest in tackling Nigeria’s security challenges. Following the recent barbaric killings in Plateau State, the President urged the state governor, Caleb Mutfwa...
22nd April 2025
Shettima’s pretentious reading of federalism
VICE-PRESIDENT Kassim Shettima’s comments on federalism expose the avalanche of the country’s post-independence leaders’ pretentiousness about federalism as a political construct and the reasons...
21st April 2025
Starvation of prisoners is not justice
BEHIND the high walls of Nigeria’s prison system, thousands of forlorn souls endure a grim existence. Recent revelations about the Nigerian Correctional Service expose a system so plagued by neglect...
20th April 2025
Shiite clashes show crowd control failure
THE recent attacks on members of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria by soldiers during the group’s annual procession to mark the International Quds Day in Abuja call to mind the crowd management...
18th April 2025
US criticism of Nigeria’s import ban
THE condemnation of Nigeria’s import ban on some 25 goods by the United States comes at a time when the biggest economy in the world is also pursuing protectionist policies that it is condemning. Am...
18th April 2025
Tasks before the new NNPC board
IT appears that President Bola Tinubu seeks a new beginning for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The impression comes after he recently dissolved the NNPC and appointed a new chief exe...
17th April 2025
Budget 2025: Crude reality for Nigeria
AMID the turmoil in the global oil market caused by President Donald Trump’s extensive tariffs and the subsequent trade war, Nigeria finds itself once again facing a crisis that could have been fore...
17th April 2025
Reverse ban on ‘Tell Your Papa’
THE ban on Tell Your Papa, a song by Eedris Abdulkareem, by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission indicates that Nigeria may be returning to the dark ages of military juntas. It is a needless provocati...
16th April 2025
Citizens’ right to protest
ON April 10, 2025, Nigerians once again witnessed a descent into tyranny when peaceful protesters under the banner of the Take It Back Movement, led by human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, were bruta...
16th April 2025
Cost of Akpabio-Natasha saga
SINCE February, when Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (SDP, Kogi Central) accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio (APC, Akwa Ibom North-West), of sexual harassment, the Senate has channelled its energie...
15th April 2025
What’s Ibas’ agenda in Rivers?
THE current happenings in Rivers State are thought-provoking. From the appearance of things, it seems that the sole administrator of the state, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has a script known only to him and those ...
15th April 2025
Chibok girls forgotten 11 years after
TODAY is the 11th anniversary of the embarrassing Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. The girls and their parents will never forget that misbegotten night of April 14, 2014. Does the government know or car...
14th April 2025
