Editorials

BARELY 24 hours after the World Health Organisation declared the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) surge in Africa as a global public health emergency, health authorities in Nigeria have been …

Following the financial autonomy granted to local councils by the Supreme Court, all eyes are now on the councils to act as fulcrum of development in the country. The post …

The security personnel, particularly the police officers trained to handle civil unrest, failed to exhibit professional ingenuity in their handling of the situation in some places. One of the eminent …

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 …