The case for a Nigerian oil reserve
The G7’s decision to release 100 million barrels from strategic stocks demonstrates what can be done to treat energy security as national security. Strategic stocks may include crude oil, refined products or both. Nigeria should understand the warning. A country blessed with substantial petroleum resources remains exposed to supply disruptions, volatile prices, weak refining capacity […]
Pay TV providers and Nigerian consumers
Once again, MultiChoice Nigeria, providers of popular DSTV subscription television services, has come under withering attacks due to its latest upward adjustment of tariffs. Responding to ballooning operational costs which pushed inflation to 33.20 per cent as of April 2024, the company like other providers of goods and services, hiked the prices of its services […]
Making VIPs pay
AS if to remind the public that he was once an activist lawyer, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, recently moved to ensure that Very Important Personalities, VIPs, who have hitherto enjoyed some free services at our airports will now pay for them. Such services include toll gate, parking and executive lounge fees. […]
Harry and Meghan in Nigeria
British royal couple, Prince Harry and Megan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrived Nigeria last Friday aboard Air Peace, to promote the Invictus Games and mental health among military personnel and Nigerians as a whole. The couple visited at the invitation of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Chris Musa. Harry, a combatant […]
Reps’ intervention on Coastal project
LAST week, the House of Representatives finally stepped into President Bola Tinubu’s Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway controversy with a resolve to ensure that due process is fully restored. Nigerians woke up some weeks ago to the commencement of work on easily the most expensive infrastructural project in Nigeria’s history: a 700 kilometre 10-lane bimodal […]
Let rule of law prevail in Rivers State
The political crisis in Rivers State is fast approaching a blowout point. The two warring sides have dropped all pretences of following a peace accord. The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has mandated the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, consisting mainly of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, carpet-crossers […]
