Growing menace of infrastructure vandalism
The perceived stripping of metal fittings from a flyover bridge around Alakija, Lagos, is another frightening reminder of the growing menace of infrastructure vandalism in Nigeria. The incident was serious enough to attract Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the scene, while the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, also weighed in on the danger posed by the […]
Implement withdrawal of police orderlies from individuals
It is regrettable that policemen trained at the public expense for the common good have over time been deployed for the protection and protocol services of a few wealthy Nigerians.
The tax “war” after VAIDS deadline
We must eschew media trials; neither should the tax authorities concentrate on individuals/organisations unallied to the ruling party and the government of the day, as we have seen in the controversial anti-corruption war of the current Federal Government.
As herdsmen turn “landlords” in Delta State
No one ever believed that the time would come when stranger-elements alien to Nigeria would forcefully seize the farmlands of indigenous peoples and subject them to slaves in their own ancestral communities while the Police and security agencies charged with the protection of lives and property pretend not to notice.
Untangling the Ajaokuta puzzle
THE Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd (ASCL) in Ajaokuta, Kogi State is the greatest signature of the failure of Nigeria to deliver one of its grand strategic national plans for rapid industrialisation. It is a generational failure which came as a result of deep seated corruption and selfish pursuits by vested interests in each succeeding regime since its incorporation in 1979.
2018 budget and fiscal nonchalance
The problem has always been the political hangover of the disharmony in the ruling party, the frosty relationship between the Legislature and the Executive arms of government and also the shoddy jobs that have characterised the budgetary profile of the Federal Government.
