ON Friday, January 27, 2023, during the Vanguard Personality of the Year Award 2022, Mrs. Eunice Onuekwusi, a 60-year-old widow and petty trader from Amagu village, Ukwulu in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, made history. Mrs. Onuekwusi was given a special recognition alongside state governors, captains of industry and other prominent Nigerians who […]

DUE to some prevailing crises in the polity, there have been doubts expressed over President Muhammadu’s promise to successfully conduct the 2023 general election as scheduled. Some sceptics still believe that the president and his loyalists are merely deceiving Nigerians; that close to the election dates, obstacles designed to derail the electoral process will be […]

IN the early years, an erstwhile ruling political party was right-of-centre, while the opposition was progressive, being largely populated by activists and actors in the decade-long tussle to unseat the military and enthrone civil rule in Nigeria. Two decades of acute cross-carpeting between political parties later, ideological lines became blurred literally beyond recognition. One of […]

THE Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, last week joined the growing voices of well-meaning Nigerians who foresee the overriding benefits of the Naira redesign and cashless policy. The minister explained that the pains citizens are passing through now due to the policy are unfortunately the prices we have to pay […]

MANY Nigerians are still confused over the outburst last week by Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, who alleged that some unnamed persons in Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, are working to ensure that APC loses the 2023 general election, slated for this February […]

IN recent weeks, Nigerians have been queuing at banks and ATM machines to obtain new naira notes and deposit old ones, which would have ceased to be legal tender on January 31, 2023 if the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, had not extended the deadline to February 10, 2023. Perhaps, if there had been enough […]

IT is both appalling and shameful to hear so soon that some commercial banks are already aiding and abetting the hoarding and illegal sales of the newly redesigned Naira notes. What a country we belong! According to media reports, the Department of State Services, DSS, over the weekend arrested some members of an organised syndicate […]

MORE than 10 million Nigerian children do not have the opportunity to attend school, and that is the highest rate in the world. Even at that, many of the children who are lucky to be in the classrooms come with ragged or torn polythene school bags. That is the true story of Nigeria told on […]

It is impressive to observe the determination of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to follow through with the laudable cashless policy which it introduced into Nigeria’s banking system. As the apex bank had explained, the cashless policy is aimed at scaling up financial inclusion and reducing cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism financing, advance […]

THE step taken by the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, in passionately appealing to the Federal Government to grant students a two-week break to enable them participate in the 2023 polls, is in the right direction. We, therefore, join NAPTAN to make the same appeal to all concerned authorities. NAPTAN’s appeal was stimulated […]