THE National Assembly is on another round of ritualising. Last week, the Senate Ad-hoc Committee probing alleged corruption and inefficiency in the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and National Iron Ore …
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Livestock ministry must end open grazing, conflicts
Against the backdrop of several failed attempts of the government to curtail incessant herders-farmers’ clashes that have claimed thousands of lives of peasant Nigerians, the plan by President Bola Ahmed …
Read More »Military intervention will escalate protests
WHILE there may be indications that the #EndBadGovernance protests may be suspended following President Bola Tinubu’s national broadcast on Sunday, where he urged protesters to embrace dialogue, the protests have …
Read More »State governments and white elephant airports
Any state government planning to establish an airport should do due diligence with a view to establishing the viability to avoid the consequences of an ill-thought-out project on its economy …
Read More »That House of Reps’ salary cut amid public discontent
The resolve by members of the House of Representatives to sacrifice 50 per cent of their salaries for six months is ordinarily a display of solidarity with the masses, who …
Read More »Need to secure the prisons
AFTER a lengthy waiting game, the Nigerian Correctional Service has released more names and pictures of inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger State. On …
Read More »Olympics: Administrative meltdown stains Nigeria
FOR Team Nigeria, bad moments are pouring in torrents at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. On Tuesday, a major uprising stained Nigeria’s participation. Favour Ofili, 21, a female sprinter, the …
Read More »Towards trade facilitation and border protection
The recent seizures of a large cache of arms and ammunition by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has again, necessitated the need for increased border protection, even as the NCS …
Read More »Hardship protests: To be or not to be
EXACTLY 1,380 days after #EndSARS protesters were brutalised, shot at, and dispersed by soldiers at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos on October 20, 2020, youths, under the aegis of the …
Read More »Empty ATMs as threat to CBN’s cashless policy
The recurring shortage of cash in the Nigerian economy and the unwholesome commoditisation of the naira, the country’s national currency, has become an issue of great concern, as it can …
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