Editorial

Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos

Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
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NCAA’s six aircraft policy

The greatest problem facing airline operators today is scarcity of foreign exchange to source inputs for effective operation. The second is difficulty and extremely high cost of credit.

Family cartels on our Bench?

The new fashion now is that senior members of the Judiciary, retired and serving Supreme Court judges and power players in the Judiciary hustle their children, wards and relations into the Bench.

Hamas’s terror attack on Israel

The world must stand up and constructively manage this crisis. The Jewish state of Israel must curb its wrath on Gaza Strip and its 2.5 million inhabitants.

Patronising Made-in-Nigeria vehicles

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, ranks third in the continent in vehicle manufacturing, after South Africa and Morocco. But it has the additional advantage of having its own home-grown multi-purpose auto makers. These include Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, IVM, in Nnewi, Anambra State, which is locally sourced up to 70 per cent. Nigeria also is the proud […]

Safeguarding our infrastructure

The vandalisation and looting of railway infrastructure has for some time morphed to an industrial scale in the Nasarawa State axis. In July this year, troops of four Special Forces rejected a bribe attempt by 12 suspects caught with stolen railway tracks and fittings.

Who will secure MMIA?

Apart from the suspected existence of an insider syndicate, there is a general atmosphere of incompetence and negligent attitude to security, especially within the FAAN.

The fuel subsidy Nigerians need

What it also means is that Organised Labour is becoming less relevant to the non-working classes because of its limited ability to force government to initiate all-inclusive palliative measures. Labour is very mindful of its own vulnerabilities, with the industrial court always deciding disputes in favour of government and threatening its leadership with contempt charges.

Judiciary’s heavy burdens

While our lawyers and judges have to stay back in Nigeria and practise their legal profession, the overwhelming caseloads arising from our flawed elections are creating another kind of manpower shortage. 

FG, Labour should settle amicably

Labour is miffed that little is being practically seen of the Federal Government’s promises. It is also angry that the countless meetings it has been invited to by government have failed to shore up confidence.

Need for inclusive access to information

Governments should enact policies and legislations that can guarantee universal access to information while investing in infrastructure, digital literacy programmes and manpower.

NDLEA’s strange liaisons with Naira Marley

This visit was read in many quarters as NDLEA making Naira Marley their “ambassador”, and this got many right-thinking Nigerians scratching their heads. What was the most notorious musician who commands cult following for promoting drug use and gangsterism doing beside Marwa, one of the highly-respected public officers in Nigeria?

School abductions: Big test for Tinubu

The first and most infamous school abduction was the Chibok Schoolgirls incident of April 14, 2014, when 276 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were whisked off into Sambisa Forest by Boko Haram jihadist terrorists. Though some of them were recovered, more than 100 of them remain unaccounted for.

‘Superhighways’: Tell us more

It turned out that the promise of the highway was a ploy to deflect attention and criticism from Buhari’s selfish and unpatriotic squandering of borrowed funds from China to build a railway from Kano to Maradi in his father’s native country, Niger Republic. Meanwhile, the Eastern railways network which were also begging for attention were ignored.

Give us a vibrant National Assembly

Akpabio’s “enjoyment” outlook, which the Executive seems eager to nurture ahead of the people’s welfare after the petrol subsidy full implementation, has not bolstered the people’s confidence in the 10th National Assembly.

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