LAST week, this issue was subject of discourse here. I am continuing with it because the issues raised are still live. You may recall that I said last week that it is totally immoral for the Police to collect tinted permit fees from someone who bought and licensed a car just in March 2025, complete with eCMR, […]

WE just celebrated our country’s 65th independence anniversary last Wednesday. On the occasion, the President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu reeled out statistics about how the national economy is improving and is, in fact, headed for eldorado. Brilliant speech with impressive  statistics to back up the president’s claim. Just a snag, however. Food prices refuse to come […]

RIGHT now, the 80th United Nations General Assembly, UNGA is holding in New York, the United States. This year, unlike on previous occasions, our president is not attending. Instead, Vice President Kashim Shettima is standing in for the president and has already delivered the Nigerian national address to the UN body. The key takeaways from the speech […]

THE media was awash with reports earlier in the week that the Federal Government has paid out the sum of N330 billion in cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households in the country through the  National Social Safety-net Coordinating Office. This development was made known to Nigerians by no less a person than the chief manager of […]

MIDWEEK, one commodity that we need badly in this country, but which is perpetually in short supply forced its way into our consciousness again, as it did, 12 times last year. It is electricity, whose transmission is effected through what we all now know as the National Grid. The grid very often, behaves like what […]