THE National Economic Council (NEC) must have intended to impress Nigerians with news that former President Olusegun Obasanjo squandered N200 billion of the Ecological Fund. So what is next? If someone is known to have, squandered public funds, no matter what the funds were for, are there no sanctions? Is the law silent on what […]

NOBODY appears interested in electoral reforms. The  dances that pass for moves to make defining changes in the way Nigeria conducts elections cannot produce any meaningful changes because the holders of power cannot make moves that they are not sure would leave powers in their hands. Justice Umaru Abdullahi, out-going President of the Court of […]

THE Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is not ready to admit its failure in engaging more than 3,248 fake teachers under its scheme that was meant to improve the standard of education in our primary and junior secondary schools.

MINISTER of Aviation, Babatunde Omotoba has the powers to suspend whoever he thinks is performing below the low expectations of his ministry. However, he does not have the right to titillate Nigerians with tales of the improved state of the equipment used in the industry.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has risen up to the complicating consequences of fracturing feuds that are part of his administration. There are no indications of an easy solution to the acrimony that ministers have managed to cultivate in their relations with each other. They, as the President admitted, have hurt the performance of government. He has […]