THE Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, is possibly the most credible agency of the Federal Government, alongside the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI.  In recent years, its public rating has been on the rise due to its professional, non-political handling of the job of telling the Nigerian situation as it is in cold metrics. […]

BRAIN drain is beyond the normal migration of people to greener pastures or adventure. It involves the mass movement of a skilled workforce from one place to another. In the 1960s and 1970s, Nigeria was a great destination for skilled foreign workers such as doctors, university lecturers, high school teachers and others from such places […]

SUNDAY, November 20, 2022, passed, rather quietly, in Nigeria, though the world out there celebrated the 2022 edition of World Children’s Day. Yes, we do celebrate our own Nigerian Children’s Day on May 27 every year, yet we still need to respond to the universal day because we are part of it. The World Children’s […]

UNDERAGE voters have been part of our electoral system for quite some time. Even the 2015 general elections, which were perceived as “free, fair, and credible,” featured thousands, if not millions, of ineligible kids who freely registered and cast their votes. Child voters are minors who are not up to the voting age of 18 […]

ON Wednesday last week, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, once again reassured Nigerians that the technological template aimed at reducing human interference in our elections in February and March 2023, will be implemented as planned. In particular, he affirmed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, the electronic […]

LAGOS is not just a state and the former Federal Capital Territory, it is also the economic melting pot of Nigeria. It is home for all Nigerians as well as foreign nationals. Every part of the country deserves to be secured, no doubt. But the security of Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is […]

ON Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the world’s population hit the eight billion mark, as predicted. One billion more people have just been added to the seven billion recorded in 2011.  We arrived quicker to this juncture than earlier forecasts, which had projected between 2024 and 2033 as the D-date. It is now estimated that by […]

SINCE February 25, 2022 when he assented to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to project an upbeat determination to deliver a free, fair and credible transitional election come February and March 2023. A president who had, in January this year, said he had a preferred candidate, suddenly allowed the All […]

THE leadership and members of the Medical and Dental Consultants of Nigeria, MDCAN, deserve a pat on the head for voluntarily opting out of the last eight-months strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The ASUU strike grounded academic activities in most university campuses over the Federal Government’s failure to fulfill its signed […]

FLOODING is a natural occurrence. In civilised parts of the world, one of the jobs of government is to evolve systems of taming routine and predictable flooding to keep the people safe.  When routine flooding keeps occurring year after year, it means that government is not living up to its duty. That is the situation […]