WE are expected to applaud the police over measures they have taken after the kidnap of the four journalists. It does not take a discerning observer to note that the prompt attention – by police standards – the incident got was because the kidnapped were from the media.

We are faced with the choice of either compiling a new voters’ register in less than eight weeks or…salvaging the existing register in 16 weeks. Either of the two presents a very difficult choice indeed. – Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, Thursday, July 22.

LAGOS State House of Assembly recently honoured former Governor of Lagos, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande with its Legislative Lifetime Outstanding Performance Award. The Federal Government followed with a national honour for the man who has remained a reference point for developing Lagos, 27 years after he left office.

NIGERIANS would have had a long laugh at the news that the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, was embarking on strike. Whether it was NEPA (Never Expect Power Always) or PHCN (Problem Has Changed Name), Nigerians knew what to expect from the organisation – darkness, irregular power supply and excuses that are longer than the River Niger, which is sometimes blamed for its low water levels.

TWO elders, Professor Ben Nwabueze vastly acknowledged as one of Africa’s best brains in constitutional law and Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, a member of the group that has decided Nigeria’s fate since 1966, weeks back disagreed on how to save Nigeria from further decline.

ONCE more we are at the verge of petroleum products scarcity without knowing what led us to it. The relative supply stability of the past few months is being threatened by the opaque practice the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, is instituting, supposedly in the public interest.

WHAT do you expect when 340,000 candidates who passed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination cannot find places in the nation’s higher institutions?

WHAT do you expect when 340,000 candidates who passed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination cannot find places in the nation’s higher institutions? Professor Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board calls the deficit in admission “survival of the fittest” and advised the affected candidates to reapply next year. If he wants to […]

SENATE President, David Achelenu Mark is angry with the state of insecurity in the country. He is proposing undemocratic solutions — anathemas to his exalted position as leader of Nigeria’s legislative business.

MUCH energy is being wasted over the statement by Mr. Remi Babalola, Minister of State Finance, that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was insolvent.