Editorials

THE National Assembly has squandered an opportunity to redeem itself. By rejecting diaspora voting, the federal legislature has sealed its reputation as a body stuck in the past and is …

AHEAD of the 2025 rainy season, there is little hope that federal roads will be any better than they are in the next few weeks. Accounts from around Nigeria indicate …

The decision by warring parties in Gaza – Israel and Hamas – to cease hostilities is a welcome development that was long overdue, given the carnage, death and monumental destruction …

The frequency and magnitude of explosions arising from petrol tanker accidents in recent times should be very worrying for Nigerians and the government. How sad it is that within three …

HEINEKEN Lokpobiri, the Minister for State Petroleum Resources (Oil), says Nigeria is targeting 3 million barrels per day of oil production in 2025. Setting targets is good because it measures …

EARLY this year, the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria urged the Federal Government to privatise its refineries to foster competition in the downstream. This is a sound …

Suggestions from political leaders that military personnel who stake their lives to preserve the country should be honoured in life and death cannot come too soon. The Nigerian soldier today …

UNITED States’ 47th President, Donald Trump, got off to an early start after he was declared the winner of the November 6, 2024, election by making clear pronouncements on his …

Pervasive incidents of kidnapping, including the recent one involving the now-rescued Mrs. Folashade Odumosu continue to heighten fears and uncertainties across Nigeria’s urban centres as well as in the hinterlands. …

THE Tertiary Education Trust Fund, the Student Education Loan Fund and other education-related components of the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 are ill-conceived, regressive, and anti-people to say the least. The …