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 […]

The scandalous disclosure that 34 states have failed to access N263 billion Universal Basic Education, UBE, funds should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in protest if Nigerians had not become so totally desensitised to shocks. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi, made this disclosure during an […]

The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, an umbrella body of senior media editors and executives rose from its recent three-day All Nigerian Editors Conference, ANEC, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with a call for a comprehensive bailout package to cushion the effects of harsh economic policies. The complete removal of subsidy on fuels and aspects of […]

Nigeria once again proved itself to the world as the home of beauty, elegance and excellence over the past weekend when Chidimma Vanessa Adetshina, who represented our country, emerged as the first runner-up of this year’s Miss Universe pageant. The event which took place at the Arena Ciudad in Mexico City, Mexico, saw 21-year-old Miss […]

President Bola Tinubu is taking a commendable step towards addressing a 45-year-old anomaly we inherited from the defunct Shehu Shagari regime. Last week, he approved a major policy shift aimed at upgrading the status of Ministers of State. From now on, Ministers designated as such will no longer need to live under the shadows of […]