Editorials

Too early to celebrate GDP growth

UNDERSTANDABLY, the Bola Tinubu administration has made a monument of the latest GDP numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The numbers indicate a 68-basis point increase to 3.19 …

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One year of Tinubu’s ministers

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has one of the largest cabinets in Nigeria’s history, comparable to Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, which had 47 ministers in 1999. Despite his promise to appoint technocrats to …

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Uneasy lies Labbadia Super Eagles’ head

BRUNO Labbadia, the newly appointed Super Eagles head coach, assumes office at a desperately disappointing time for Nigeria’s men’s national football team. After an inexplicably long hiatus following the resignation …

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Nigeria’s brutal insecurity siege

NIGERIA has become notorious for killings. Non-state actors are plundering and engaging in murderous misadventures while the security agencies seem bereft of strategies to curb their excesses. President Bola Tinubu, …

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Stop the ASUU strike

ANY new disruption in the academic calendar due to industrial actions by university-based unions will escalate the crisis in the university system. This must be stopped at all costs. In …

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Fearless in October Protests

NIGERIA is on the brink of another protest. Barely three weeks after the economically damaging #EndBadGovernance demonstrations, another round of protest looms in October. For a country that has yet …

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