President Bola Tinubu last week joined his counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, for the 11th Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission, BNC, in Cape Town, South Africa, in an effort to address the often troubled relationship between the two African giants. With Africa as the perennial centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, we have always played the Big Brother role. […]

It goes with little argument that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, is one of the most graphic reflections of our largely morally decadent society. Its current handlers also need to do more to re-establish it as a serious, matured agency of law enforcement and pursuit of justice both for its personnel and members of the […]

The proverbial long arm of the law has scored another big hit, with the arrest, diligent prosecution and sentencing of the robbers who invaded Offa town in Kwara State on April 5, 2018. It was a bank robbery unlike no other. Beyond the use of explosives to burst bank vaults, the gangsters embarked upon an […]

In a number of ways, President Bola Tinubu is keeping some of his campaign promises which, however, are taking harsh tolls on the people. All major presidential candidates pledged to end petrol subsidy payments, a policy that Tinubu implemented from Day One of his administration. He had also campaigned on the need to “widen the […]

Recycling is a waste-to-wealth activity tailored towards fostering environmental sustainability. In our industrial age where large-scale production and consumption generate a lot of wastes, the environment gets severely polluted unless efforts are made to evacuate the waste. With our large population and huge appetite for consumption of mainly goods produced in other countries and dumped […]

It came like a bolt from the blue last week Tuesday when the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced the resumption of crude oil refining at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, after years of inactivity. Many Nigerians did not believe the news, obviously because of the many failed promises of resumption. Some Nigerians […]

THE National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

The ruling by the Supreme Court a week ago, nullifying the National Lottery Act of 2005, is another landmark judgement favouring the gradualist move to restore true federalism. The 1999 Constitution is widely criticised for its military-like centralised command structure which promotes injustice, especially in the economic sector and sharing of national revenues. In nullifying […]

Many Nigerians were worried, some weeks ago, when the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, was caught on live video singing the praises of his employer, President Bola Tinubu. He was responding to the reported infiltration of Sokoto State by a “new” terror group known as the Lakurawa. He boasted that the armed group was […]

President Bola Tinubu’s bid to reform taxation in Nigeria has turned into a “war” of sorts, with some state governors, especially those from the North, pitched against the Federal Government and National Assembly members. Early in October 2024, Tinubu transmitted four tax reform bills to the NASS. Of the lot, it was the bill that […]