For years, Nigeria has paid mere lip service to the need to diversify the export base of our economy to widen the sources of our foreign exchange earnings. Crude oil exports have traditionally been the mainstay of our economy.

Recent innovations by the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, showcase Nigeria’s ability to modernise its public services. Its AI-powered registration portal marks a significant step in simplifying business registration and offering instant name reservation similar to creating an email account. Though there have been complaints about poor service and technical glitches on the CAC portal, the […]

Today, Monday, July 28, 2025, is World Hepatitis Day, a global reminder of the growing threat viral hepatitis poses to public health, and the urgent need for stronger resolve to combat it.   This year’s theme, “Let’s Break It Down,” aims to demystify the disease and amplify the voices of those living with it, calling for testing, […]

Since the late Professor Dora Akunyili left the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in December 2008, the Agency has hardly made front page news except for the wrong reasons, until now. The incumbent Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, a professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation, has brought the […]

The recently resolved industrial action embarked upon by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, over delayed payment of the National Minimum Wage, brings back the issue of unconscionable neglect of social sector workers by typical Nigerian politicians. After embarking on a prolonged strike, the teachers’ union called […]

Muhammadu Buhari, retired Major General, former military Head of State and two-time elected President of Nigeria, bowed into the cold hands of death on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at an upscale London clinic at 82. His passing brought to an end a prolonged history of illness and hospitalisation which pervaded his eight-year tenure between 2015 […]

Socio-political activist, Omoyele Sowore, last week threatened to lead retired and serving personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, nationwide over poor welfare. This comes as the National Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, NARPON, bemoans the delayed payment of N758 billion outstanding pension liabilities from their Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to its members. […]

July 1, 2025, went down in history as a day yet another Nigerian super achiever, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR), the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, CG of NCS, was handed the mantle to lead a major global platform for trade administration and control, the World Customs Organisation, WCO. Adewale’s well-deserved appointment, coupled with a […]

The recent brutal massacre of over 70 members of a vigilante squad in Plateau State shows the danger that Nigerians are now exposed to due to the failure of the Nigerian state to protect its citizens from terrorists masquerading behind different monikers: armed herdsmen, Boko Haram, bandits, Lakurawa, ISIS, Mahmuda, and others. The vigilantes, from […]

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers. This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was […]

Infiltration and sabotage are the main sustainers of the insecurity that is threatening to sink Nigeria as we know it. This threat presents three broad forms: Boko Haram/ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen terrorists and bandits. While Boko Haram/ ISWAP are unpretentious about their jihadist ideology, the herdsmen and bandit terrorists also operate with the same style. They […]

President Bola Tinubu’s decision to send some doctors and other health sector professionals to St Lucia under the Federal Government’s Technical Aid Corps, TAC, scheme has drawn the ire of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and understandably so. The president has just concluded a week-long state visit to the Caribbean island country. This came as […]

The menace of fake and substandard drugs is a worldwide threat to humans and animals. This threat is a rising phenomenon, especially in developing countries where the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, estimates that up to 10 per cent of drugs in circulation are fake or substandard. The situation is worst in […]

The committal of the remains of one of Nigeria’s foremost business legends, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, to mother earth at Al Baqi Cemetery in Medina, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, June 1, 2025 after the funeral prayer held at the Masjid an-Nabawi (Prophet’s Mosque), marked the close of an extraordinary chapter in Nigerian business and philanthropy. His […]

The move in the House of Representatives for the extension of “free” internet services to designated public places and the rural areas is mired in unnecessary controversy despite its clearly beneficial objectives. Championed by Abubakar Yahaya Kusada (APC Kankia/Ingawa/Kusada Federal Constituency, Katsina State), the Bill seeks to establish a sound foundation to ensure that under-served […]