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 […]

ON February 22, 2024, the Senate passed the South-East Development Commission, SEDC, Bill, thus concurring a similar action already taken in the House of Representatives sequel to the Bill’s initiation by Hon. Benjamin Kalu (APC Bende Federal Constituency, Abia). It is safe to assume that the Bill is on the desk of President Bola Tinubu, […]

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013), popularly known as Chinua Achebe, is regarded in the Western world as the father and central figure of modern African literature — a title which Achebe, in his characteristic humility, rejected.  Achebe, born in Ogidi, in modern day Anambra State of Nigeria, was a novelist, poet and critic. His first novel, […]

It is so perturbing that Nigeria has been able to prosecute only 300 out of more than 50,000 jihadist terror suspects. The confirmation of this figure by the Director General of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, NARC, retired Major General Garba Wahab, at a round table discussion forum in Abuja recently, put it beyond fiction. […]

We urge President Bola Tinubu to favourably consider the calls from various quarters for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu without further delay. In recent weeks, the clamour for Kanu’s freedom has come from several sources. Ijaw leader and Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, […]

Minister of the Interior, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, in a recent duty round, told reporters that the Federal Government was considering removing the Ikoyi Prisons and others like it located deeply in populated urban areas to new locations. This has sparked heated debates on the social media. Critics feel that government wants to move these correctional […]

Unless wise counsel prevails, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, may begin its threatened nationwide enforcement of its ban of sachet alcohol. This will be in total negation of the compromise brokered by the House of Representatives between the Agency and industry stakeholders in February 2024, whereby a five-year moratorium […]

Over the past one year, the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has quietly been undergoing radical changes, pushing close to the perfect picture of the Customs needed for the actualisation of the economic reform visions of the President Ahmed Bola Tinubu administration. In June 2023, Tinubu appointed Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, a former Spokesman of the Customs, […]

Chairman of the Dangote Refinery, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, recently disclosed how offshore “oil mafia” nearly grounded his effort to build the largest single-train refinery in Nigeria. According to him, these faceless groups strived to push his company into debt default which could have reduced the venture to the situation of Ajaokuta Steel, but for the […]