Let ideas dominate the campaigns
The August 19, 2026 date fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the commencement of campaigns for the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly Elections has passed. Once again, Nigeria has entered another election season, bringing with it the familiar sights and sounds of rallies, endorsements, defections, slogans, promises and political fireworks. But Nigerians […]
Only Three Million Barrels Stolen!
WE hope Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice-Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin was not feeling triumphant when he told the House of Representatives committee probing the oil industry that oil thieves stole only about three million barrels of crude oil monthly. He sounded so.
More Protection For Widows
JUNE 23 was the United Nations’ International Widows Day. Many interests and non-governmental groups, in Nigeria, took to the streets with placards calling for an end to crises and violence, the major sources of widowhood – especially among young women.
NYSC’s Poor Assurances
ON 10 May 2011, Nigeria was drenched in emotion as President Goodluck Jonathan paid compensation of N5 million each to families of 10 members of the National Youth Service Corps killed in election-related incidents.
No Alarm On Road Carnage
A MONTH after 153 people died in the Dana air crash, the lamentations have not abetted. Motions on improving air travel safety continue. Some have lost their jobs and billions of Naira will be expended in improving airports, which national legislators rate so important that if they suffer blackouts, sessions are held on the implications as if the country was coming to an abrupt end.
A Scandal Scandalised
NIGERIANS are still waiting for the security agencies to prosecute Farouk Lawan, the embattled chairman of the House of Representatives Committee that probed government expenditures on petroleum subsidy. It seems it would be a long wait.
