Editorials

Today, Nigeria marks World Immunisation Day with 2.1 million of its children unvaccinated. This means that this huge number of children never received any dose of vaccine against tuberculosis, polio, …

Last week, in an almost unimaginable turnaround, the 45th President of the United States, who was frustrated by the voters in his re-election effort four years ago, was comprehensively voted …

The implications of Nigeria’s projected population growthto about 400 million in about 25 years time are profound and multifaceted, encompassing challenges related to resource management, employment, public services The post …

The seeming intractable war on terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria easily lends itself to warnings by well-meaning people that the huge The post Addressing youth education as panacea for insurgency …

Eleven times this year, the country’s national grid has suffered collapse, repeatedly plunging the country into darkness. There is no other jarring evidence of the need for power reforms than …

The continued relevance of Nigeria’s school curricula to the contemporary necessity of skills acquisition has, over the years, elicited The post Mandatory vocational skills as antidote to dysfunctional education system …

The detention of scores of minors for participating in the protests against bad governance underscores a disturbing trend within the country’s criminal justice system and poses serious questions about the …

The proposal for the establishment of a University of Languages, being considered by the House of Representatives, is a misdirected way of addressing an existential problem of the rapid fading …

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was right. At a recent event, he lamented the culture of one administration throwing overboard the projects initiated by its predecessor, no matter their importance or the …

The recurrent breakdown of law and order in Nigeria’s Southeast is a cause for concern. The killings, destruction of property and monumental losses in businesses and man-hours occasioned by the …