NIGERIA, a country richly blessed with a wide array of solid, liquid and gaseous minerals, has found it increasingly difficult to earn its due incomes from these endowments due mainly to insecurity, corruption, theft and sabotage. The oil and gas sector, which has been the mainstay of our economy for over 50 years, has failed […]

President Bola Tinubu’s promise to establish a Federal Ministry of Livestock Development comes with several question marks and for cogent reasons. This will be the 49th Ministry in his cabinet. The president succumbed to pressures by the herdsmen interest groups, particularly the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, which demanded for a separate […]

When terrorists attacked several parts of the United States of America with commercial aircraft laden with passengers on September 11, 2001, little did those of us in Nigeria realise that our country would soon become one of the hottest terror spots in the world. Following the murder in government custody of Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf, leader […]

The recent devastating flooding of Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, UAE’s, show-piece international city, was just another reminder that almost any human settlement, no matter how highly developed, can be flooded. Also, in 2021, Europe suffered one of its most memorable flooding in modern times. It claimed the lives of over 120 people, with Germany […]

The recent adoption of a regional anthem by the six Governors of the South-West states – Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos – has aroused controversy, with some questioning the “real” motive behind it. An anthem is a song meant to arouse passion, patriotism or a sense of common bond within a group. Our […]

President Bola Tinubu moved in a big way with his Economic Stabilisation Programme, ESP, last week Thursday, July 4, 2024, applying a massive N2 trillion jab into the veins of our sagging economy, with a view to reviving it within the next six months. He is employing the Presidential Economic Coordination Council, PECC, which he […]

One of the great disservices that the General Abdulsalami Abubakar transitional regime did to Nigeria was its failure to empanel a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution before handing over in 1999. It simply amended the 1979/1989 Constitutions with some amendment clauses derived from the General Sani Abacha Constitution of 1996. In effect, they […]

When President Bola Tinubu swore in his cabinet ministers last year, he declared that those who did not perform would be sacked. But he did not disclose the criteria or metrics of assessment to enable the public join in the effort. The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, however, has a system of result measurement […]

It is not surprising that some of the state governors have resorted to playing pranks with the new national minimum wage after over a year of negotiations with Organised Labour towards the enactment of a law to cement the issue. The state governors were part of the Federal Government’s tripartite committee which met for over […]

Kenya is not Nigeria. This is perhaps the best way to summarise the victorious mass actions of the Kenyan people which forced the government of President William Ruto to back off from the tax-laden finance bill already passaged in the parliament. Like Nigeria’s, the Kenyan economy is in distress. The international lending organisations, such as […]