Nigeria must secure its agro-export future
Nigeria cannot afford to sleepwalk into the European Union’s new deforestation regime. The warning that the country could put more than $1bn, or about N1.4tn, in annual agro-export earnings at risk should be treated as an economic emergency requiring urgent response. The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) takes effect on December 30, 2026, for large […]
Fear is not freedom
THE exclusion of two key areas of our lives – the economy and defence -from the oversight functions that the Freedom of Information Bill is meant to provide, weakens the effects of the bill before it becomes law.
We Must Regulate Heavy Vehicles
EACH time there is tragedy on our roads, recriminations follow, and the matter is rested. It is time government did more to make the roads safer for everyone and in this enterprise, no excuses should be accepted.
When Debtors Refuse To Pay
THE consumer is king. Bankers are seeing the other side of kingly consumers. Some bank debtors are refusing to meet their obligations. They are not even willing to enter the normal banker-client negotiations on terms of redeeming the situation.
Yet Another Doctors’ Strike
DOCTORS in Lagos are back on strike only two months after their November strike, which lasted 14 weeks, occasioning loss of lives of patients, especially mothers, children and emergency cases.
Death sentence no solution
AT a time, 111 of the world’s 192 nations have abolished the death sentence, with others on their way to doing so, our National Assembly wants to add to the five offences that already attract the death penalty under our laws.
