Building permit in Lagos: Approval must end in inspection
FOR much of this week, and as we inch closer to the next general elections, issues about and appertaining to the economy and well-being of Nigerians dominate discourse everywhere — in the traditional media, the social media, at beer parlours, and inside buses as commuters move from one point to another. Government and its spokesmen […]
INEC and local government elections
Pursuant to the recent Supreme Court verdict mandating allocation of funds due to the Local Government Areas, LGAs, directly to them to enhance their “autonomy”, greater attention of Nigerians is turning to them as serious units of grass-roots governance. That verdict holds that LGAs that are under the unconstitutional “caretaker committees” set up by some […]
Protesters’ grievances must be addressed
It is an irony that President Bola Tinubu is asking peeved Nigerians to give him “more time” to fix the economy. He is asking the people to give him what he denied himself when he took the reins of power on May 29, 2023. Former President Muhammadu Buhari had gamely made financial provisions for the […]
Probe NMDPRA CEO’s weighty claims
Nigerians are shocked by the claim that Dangote Refinery and other startup modular refiners produce substandard products compared to their international counterparts. This controversial allegation came from no other than the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulation Authority, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, on July 18, 2024. According to him: “Dangote refinery as […]
Let’s protest responsibly
All appears set for the August 1, 2024 nationwide protest over hunger and hardship, which has been brewing for over one year. Nigerians were still recovering from the “no-money, no-fuel and no-food” economic crisis foisted on them by the expiring President Muhammadu Buhari regime in pursuit of a pointless “naira redesign policy” last year. His […]
Donald Trump’s narrow escape
The United States of America, USA, and by extension the world was saved a major disaster on Saturday, July 13, 2024 when former President, Donald Trump, narrowly survived an assassination attempt by a 20-year-old Thomas Crooks at a Republican Party rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he addressed his supporters, several shots rang out. One of […]
