Editorials

New federal varsity a misnomer

LIKE his predecessors, President Bola Tinubu is elevating illogic above scientific thinking in public tertiary education. Just like Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari before him, Tinubu has created a new …

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Petrol pricing: Preventing unfair practices

JUST as the Yuletide approached, Dangote Refinery and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, through a third party, announced that they were slashing petrol prices. Dangote indicated that the gesture …

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Crime-fighting lessons from America

IT took five days for police to arrest the prime suspect in the killing of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance firm in the United States. Brian Thompson, …

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Bring human traffickers to justice

THE festering rights abuse, killings, exploitation, rape, and horror associated with human trafficking over the years have made it compelling for the government to devise a comprehensive strategy to check …

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States and paucity of FDI

NIGERIA’S ‘feeding bottle’ federalism is coming home to roost. The country has been running a unitary system disguised as federalism, and the negative effects of centralisation have begun to show …

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Protect health workers against abduction

THE incessant abduction of healthcare workers in Nigeria has reached alarming proportions, casting a grim shadow over the country’s embattled health sector. These abductions not only jeopardise the lives of …

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