Curbing trans-Sahara human trafficking
The rescue of four Nigerian girls from a suspected prostitution ring in Morila, Mali, is another reminder that trans-Saharan human trafficking is not a path to prosperity. It is still a booming, predatory business in which traffickers, recruiters, “madams,” transporters and exploiters profit while young Nigerians lose their freedom, dignity and, sometimes, their lives. The […]
Osinbajo should sign the budget without delay
AFTER an unusually long delay of the 2017 Budget, the National Assembly, NASS, has finally passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill amounting to N7.441trn – including N143bn added on by the lawmakers.
Need to address budget, MTEF structural distortion
WITH the latest update on the 2017 budget upheavals taken to a ridiculous level by the two key arms of the Federal Government – the Executive and the Legislature, we draw attention to the wider policy implication of the continued delay in putting the spending plan into operation.
Two years of mixed fortunes
TODAY, May 29, 2017 is the second anniversary of the assumption of power by the Muhammadu Buhari government, elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He had campaigned on a three-point agenda: fighting insecurity (especially the Boko Haram insurgency), waging a war on corruption and revamping the economy.
Jail attempted rapists at Lagos school
Public decency and morality were flung to the winds by some scoundrels in school uniforms, who descended on female students with the raw intent of raping them publicly. Motorists and passers-by watched in shock as male students from secondary schools in the Ikoyi axis of Lagos sexually assaulted girls from Falomo Senior High School.
Halt this growing Executive impunity
THE testy relationship between the Senate and the Presidency was tried once again last week when a newly-appointed Director-General of the National Lottery Commission, Mr Lanre Gbajabiamila, started functioning without first being confirmed by the Senate.
