Editorials

THE last word on subsidies has not been heard after former President Olusegun Obasanjo declared recently in a viral interview that the petrol subsidy abolished by President Bola Tinubu in …

AS the off-cycle elections in Edo and Ondo states beckon, registered citizens in the states should troop out to vote for their chosen candidates without undue pressures or ‘stomach infrastructure’ …

Nigerians who trooped to the streets in protest against hunger and hardship have spoken. Their message to those in the corridors of power is clear that there is discontent in …

Just as the world heaves a sigh of relief over the Iran-Israeli confrontation, a consequence of the Israeli war on Gaza, the ante of the seething Israeli-Palestine crisis was upped …

THE world is in turmoil today, and in W.B. Yeats’s words, things have fallen apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Peace has been truncated …

The crisis in the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, particularly the attack on the government team and destruction of properties, which led to the indefinite closure of …

THE recent verdict of the Lagos High Court ordering the Lagos State Government to investigate the death of a journalist, Pelumi Onifade, 20, and prosecute the killers, offers a vista …

NIGERIA’S civil service, an essential pillar of governance, has long been marred by corruption, inefficiency, and systemic failures that undermine the effectiveness of public administration. Things should change with Didi …

As the engine room of a functional government, the Nigerian civil service deserves the recent focus it attracted from stakeholders, who were unanimous in their advocacy for a meaningful reform. …

FOR a largely agricultural country, it is incomprehensible that 172 million Nigerians cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 …