Category: Opinion

By Dan Agbese President Muhammadu Buhari signed 16 amendments to the 1999 Constitution into law on March 18. Perhaps the most significant of these was the amendment that removed electric power generation, transmission, and distribution from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list. States are thus permitted by this amendment to assume the […]

Pitted against the current report in which Nigeria is expected to reap N22 billion from fines on oil companies that have failed to stop gas flaring, the news that the nation is instrumental to a global reduction in gas flaring offers little cheer. For one, the country remains one of the highest gas flaring entities […]

By Femi Adesina There’s a saying in the Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that place you go to rest, after the labour and toil of the day. It is that place you find succor and respite, after the vagaries and vicissitudes that go with your […]

President Muhammadu Buhari By Eric Teniola “We don’t want Minister of State again. It is like a condemnation, if you are in the office, they can’t bring files to you, if you are having a gathering like this, you can’t talk, you will seat down with your colleagues like a “Mumu”, you won’t talk; if […]

The NPC had announced that the Commission would begin the second pre-test exercise in 444 Enumeration Areas in the 148 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in preparation for the population and housing census. Nasir Isa Kwarra, the commission’s chairman, explained that the pre-test […]

By Eze Onyekpere Last week, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, announced that the Federal Government had negotiated and got the approval of the World Bank for a loan of $800m. She stated that the loan would be used to provide palliatives for 50 million poor Nigerians after the removal of […]

Chairman, National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra While Nigerians bicker over the conduct and results of the recently held general elections, another potentially divisive statutory national exercise is less than four weeks away. The National Population Commission has stepped up preparations for the 2023 national census slated for May 3-5, the first since 2006, including training […]

Most of Nigeria’s 36 atomised states are living on the edge of financial disaster. Proof of this is provided in a new economic outlook released by the National Bureau of Statistics, showing that 27 of the sub-national entities attracted zero Foreign Direct Investment throughout 2022. With high inflation making nonsense of the monthly income sharing […]

Nigeria’s unemployment rate may hit 38.8 percent this year, forecasts by notable private sector institutions, have suggested. The figure is an average of the two most notable private sector-driven organisations that released forecasts on the likely state of the labour market this year, using different analytical techniques. Data users have not had the benefit of […]

Census officials Against all odds, the National Population Commission said it is ready to conduct a national headcount from May 3, 2023, after the commencement date was shifted from March 29, following shifts also in the conduct of the governorship election nationwide. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has recently also confirmed the arrangement. […]