Federal Government officials have unwittingly sowed seeds of confusion as to whether or not the Bola Tinubu regime is planning a ban on importation of photovoltaic panels any time soon. Self-impressed with what the experts in his ministry are doing, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, recently claimed the government was willing […]

Organised Labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliate unions – marked this year’s May Day on the usual May 1, 2025 throughout the country with mixed feelings and the expected litany of demands. One of them, which we frown at, was the advocacy for the increment […]

The issue that has transpired between President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Professor Peter Ogban, a Returning Officer, since the 2019 Senatorial Election in Akwa Ibom State, is a big lesson for those who, for a mess of pottage, will readily mortgage their reputations and those of their families. Ogban, a Professor of Soil […]

The gaping failure in our security architecture was revisited on Tuesday last week during the two-day colloquium on the Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003, titled: “22 years after, Reassessing the Nigerian Communications Act – Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions for a Digital Nigeria”, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos. Some Members of the House of […]

Former Labour leader and Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Interior, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, is not the first to tell Nigerians that our solid mineral fields have been hijacked by those he described as “retired Generals” in collaboration with foreign crooks. Oshiomhole addressed the media recently and disclosed how, as National Chairman of his […]