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 […]
Israel, Palestine must cohabit
We call on both sides to take another look at their positions and go for peaceful coexistence for a better future for all concerned.
Needless tantrums over travel alerts
The Nigerian government does not need to be unduly triggered by some of these advisories, especially by Western nations which do not joke with the safety and welfare of their citizens anywhere in the world.
G7’s $600bn trans-African railway
That a project of this magnitude is to take place in Africa strictly as a move to counter China and with little or no conceptual input by Africa’s business and political leaders, is a red flag.
The battering of NLC President, Ajaero
That Ajaero could be so dastardly brutalised in his own state of origin says much about the bad blood that existed between him and the state authorities under Governor Uzodimma. We doubt that anyone would have
“Presidential yacht” controversy
In our view, the Nigerian Navy, which reportedly originated the request, should be the last institution to describe a high-security boat as a “presidential yacht”.
NUPRC and Host Communities’ fund
More annoying to the host communities is the NUPRC and oil companies’ demand that the Host Community Development Trusts, HCDTs, should hire lawyers and chartered accountants of at least 10 years experience from the oil companies’ three per cent remittances.
Decongestion of custodial centres
We need an emergency measure, with the target of cutting the number of awaiting trial inmates to more than half of their current population.
False narratives about Abuja’s status
Where the likes of Gumi got their confusion from is probably the fact that between 1979 that Adeogun left office and 2023, all the 14 ministers appointed by successive regimes were all Northerners.
What future for our democracy?
LAST week Thursday, October 26, 2023, marked the formal end of our 2023 general elections. Though many election petition tribunals are still at work at the state level and in respect of some National and State Assembly cases, the confirmation of President Bola Tinubu’s victory by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court ended the […]
Nigeria’s victory in P&ID case
Nigerians are basking in the euphoria of a significant victory in the celebrated arbitration case instituted against us by controversial Process and Industrial Development, P&ID, a firm registered in the British Virgin Islands and owned by two Irish nationals, the late Michael Quinn and Brendan Carroll. On Monday, October 23, 2023, the Business and Property Court […]
