Dangers of state governments bankrolling mass weddings
Kano’s recent announcement that it spent N1.5bn to bankroll mass weddings should prompt national alarm rather than applause. Kano State remains rampant in the worrying roster of northern states – including Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Borno – that have for years organised and financed large-scale nuptial ceremonies. Authorities offer three common rationales: to reduce […]
Upgrading street sweepers to minimum wage
The problems associated with contract employment in the Nigerian labour market reared their ugly heads last week when a female street sweeper, who declined to disclose her name, went on a lone protest in Lagos to draw attention to the plight she and her 16,488 colleagues face. According to her in an appeal to the […]
Calls on NCC to block porn sites
We are fully on the same page with the call by the House of Representatives on the need to block all porn sites because of the damage porn is wreaking on the fabric of our society. Last week, the House directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the industry regulator, to shut down porn hosting websites […]
Rivers also needs “Lagos Treatment”
President Bola Tinubu is expected to bring his “magic touch” to fix the Rivers State political crisis just as he did in dousing the heat rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Attention, ECOWAS standby force
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, under the leadership of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, is moving forward with the recent establishment of the 5,000-strong ECOWAS Standby Force. By so doing, the ECOWAS has proved once again to be one of the most active regional bodies in the world. It has moved ahead of […]
Year of paradigm shift at PAP
The establishment of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, was the magic wand with which the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua peacefully ended militancy in the Niger Delta in 2009. It forever endeared him to the people of the region. The programme was designed to provide the framework for disarmament and reintegration of ex-militants. It offered […]
