It is a shame that after 63 years of independence, Nigeria and its component parts are unable to build railways, roads and bridges without the funding and expertise of foreign powers.

AGAINST wiser counsel, President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, October 17, 2023, flagged off what he called the “Renewed Hope” conditional cash transfer as part of his idea of cushioning the effects of the subsidy removal on petrol. Unlike his earlier proposal in which N8,000 was to be shared among 12 million vulnerable households for six […]

Poverty can negatively affect society in several ways. It leads to social unrest and conflict, as those unable to access basic necessities fight for their rights.

Apart from the huge amount that will be spent in servicing this crowd of political appointees in a debt-riddled economy, Tinubu’s manner of over-bloating his government is bound to elicit other consequences down the road ahead.

The menace of illegal, unregulated artisanal refining has become a great risk to life

WHEN the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was sworn in, in August 2023, he vowed to ensure that herdsmen no longer lead their livestock to graze inside the municipal precincts of Abuja. But the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, MAKH, through its National Secretary, Saleh Hassan Kubah, derided the Minister with an […]

If indeed the Federal Government has resumed paying petrol subsidy, it is just another indicator of policy failure.

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.

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.

The main problem is that there are so many agencies with overlapping functions and which refuse to work together because of corruption and turf wars.