Good roads are central to the infrastructural needs of the people and a nation, as qualitative life and steadily growing economy are directly linked to easy movements of goods and services. Major roads in Nigeria have suffered abandonment by successive Nigerian governments, with the attendant harrowing experiences borne by the users of such roads. Nigerian […]
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Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed By Abachi Ungbo History is replete with countries that plunged into crises on the strength of ever- rising spending and the crushing effect of accumulated debts. For instance, Greece fell into deep economic morass due to its fiscal policies. It kept spending while borrowing continues to make a quick upward trajectory. […]
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President’s pledge to raise education funding is good, but redeeming it is better Perhaps the best news that stakeholders in Nigeria’s educational sector have heard in many years is President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to increase budgetary allocation to the sector by 50 percent over the next two years. Making the pledge alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) went beyond its brief to deny, as it did recently, some media organisations from covering the trial in Abuja of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). And to boot, the security body did not deem it proper to explain its selection of only 10 […]
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Two recent incidents of assault on journalists pontificate growing concern about increased hazards being faced by Nigerian journalists in the course of performing their official duties recognized by the constitution. One, the Department of the State Services (DSS) and some policemen descended on a reporter with the Punch newspaper, Friday Olokor over the wearing of […]
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By Martins Oloja It is quite unfortunate that Abuja, the nation’s capital is fast becoming another failing institution in Nigeria but the federal authorities that run the country from there have always forgotten that there is a unique government of the Federal Capital Territory headed by a Minister, a member of the Executive Council of […]
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By Vincent Akanmode There is a popular joke to the effect that if you have something to hide from Nigerians, your best bet is to keep it in a book. Doing so, there is almost a hundred per cent guarantee that it will remain a secret because the average Nigerian does not read. This point […]
Continue ReadingBy Olatunji Dare What were former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s thought and preoccupations as the events memorializing June 12, 1993, the day of promise he turned into a nightmare, unfolded? Remorse? Contrition? Vindication? Fulfillment? Triumph? All of the above? We may never know until he releases his much-postponed memoirs. Why, in any case, did Babangida […]
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By Tunde Rahman Why do many political opponents dread the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, so much so that in their wishful thinking they hope he gives way or simply quits the stage? Why should political contestation get to the point where our so-called political leaders would be wishing their competitors […]
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By Dare Babarinsa When Abayomi Dairo was shot down from the sky on Sunday July 18, it marked a new milestone in Nigeria’s fight against terror. For several years now, the Federal Government has chased the terror gangs ravaging the North-West and the Middle-Belt of Nigeria on land and in the air. When these criminals strike […]
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