AS if to remind the public that he was once an activist lawyer, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, recently moved to ensure that Very Important Personalities, VIPs, who have hitherto enjoyed some free services at our airports will now pay for them. Such services include toll gate, parking and executive lounge fees. […]

British royal couple, Prince Harry and Megan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrived Nigeria last Friday aboard Air Peace, to promote the Invictus Games and mental health among military personnel and Nigerians as a whole. The couple visited at the invitation of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Chris Musa. Harry, a combatant […]

LAST week, the House of Representatives finally stepped into President Bola Tinubu’s Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway controversy with a resolve to ensure that due process is fully restored. Nigerians woke up some weeks ago to the commencement of work on easily the most expensive infrastructural project in Nigeria’s history: a 700 kilometre 10-lane bimodal […]

The political crisis in Rivers State is fast approaching a blowout point. The two warring sides have dropped all pretences of following a peace accord. The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has mandated the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, consisting mainly of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, carpet-crossers […]

The Muhammadu Buhari leg of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government failed to wave the magic wand they had promised during the campaigns towards the 2015 presidential election. Instead, the economy was left in utter ruins as Buhari handed over to Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023. From Day One, Tinubu deftly transferred […]

WITHIN the space of a few days, officials of the Lagos State Government “discovered” two residential setups tucked under the flyover bridges in the Ikoyi foreshore axis. One was found under Dolphin Estate Bridge while the other was located at Osborne Bridge. According to a well-circulated social media post by the state’s Commissioner for Environment […]

Reports of a recent upsurge in violent crimes allegedly being carried out by the so-called repentant Boko Haram terrorists did not come as a surprise to concerned Nigerians. It was bound to happen because of the shoddy manner that their “de-radicalisation” programme  was conceived by the military under former Army Chief, Lt-General Tukur Buratai, during […]

On Thursday last week (May 2, 2024), the Nigeria Police paraded three young men whom it disclosed were behind the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, which shook the nation to its foundation. On March 28, 2022, terrorists planted explosives on the train tracks and immobilised a train belonging to the Nigerian Railways Corporation. The train had 970 […]

The stage is set for a battle royale between the Federal Government and Organised Labour consisting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliates, over the new national Minimum Wage, NMW. While government promised that whatever is agreed will take effect from May 1, 2024, perhaps in honour […]

Former Super Eagles’ ace winger and victorious coach of Enyimba Football Club of Aba, Finidi George, was announced as the new Manager of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, last week, by the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF. This puts to rest, for now, the search for a new Eagles’ helmsman. George was chosen ahead […]

President Bola Tinubu’s assertion at the recent Special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that the removal of petrol subsidy and foreign exchange reforms by his administration saved Nigeria from bankruptcy, was received with mixed feelings by the citizens who have been forced to endure horrendous hardship over the past year. On the surface […]

Over the past week, no fewer than nine Governors from the North were in Washington, D.C. to attend a conference organised by the United States Institute of Peace, USIP, with the theme: “Drivers of Instability and Opportunities for Stabilisation”. These were: Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, Abba Yusuf of Kano, Uba Sani of Kaduna, Umar Bago […]

The calls for the promulgation of a brand-new Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria are growing. Our 1999 Constitution has never been a darling of the more progressive sections of our society because it is seen essentially as a military decree imposed on Nigerians by the departing transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Some […]

Minister of Education, Mamman Tahir, while monitoring the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in Abuja, announced that 18 years would henceforth be the minimum age for the admission of students into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Most students sitting for the university enrolment examinations are between 16 and 17. He blamed parents for “pressuring” their […]

Following the Federal Executive Council, FEC’s, approval, President Bola Tinubu last week Tuesday launched the Consumer Credit Scheme in Abuja. It will be run by the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation, CREDICORP. According to a statement from the presidential media office, the scheme, which will be implemented in stages, will start with public sector workers or […]