ON Christmas Eve, the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission shut down three notable companies—Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Guinness Nigeria Plc, and FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc—for allegedly violating water usage regulations. …
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Decline of real sector performance and exit of firms
The decline in the country’s real sector performance as reported in the 2024 third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) publication of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) did not come as …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Minimum wage implementation as governors’ minimum assignment
As many governors remain reluctant to implement the new national minimum wage of N70,000, it has become imperative that they rethink, given the harsh economic situation Nigerians are going through. …
Read More »Tragedy of military’s accidental airstrikes
THE Nigerian Air Force, as a key arm of the Armed Forces, performs critical roles in counter-insurgency operations. However, in recent years, a troubling pattern has emerged: frequent accidental bombings …
Read More »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, …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Biodun Shobanjo at 80: Toast to an enduring visionary
At eighty, and with a long list of outstanding achievements as a thorough professional; coupled with an unyielding can-do spirit and character, Biodun Olusina Shobanjo deserves more recognition and applause …
Read More »On proper meals for students in public secondary schools
What went viral on social media through a video on what was served to boarding house students of a secondary school in Akwa Ibom State was unfortunate and calls for …
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