LAST week, the Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the Dubai government has gone 100 per cent paperless in its operations and services.

AS the days go by, Nigeria is proving to have lost its ability to maintain its laws and preserve order which are central to development in any society. School abductions have become so easy and devoid of consequences that criminals and terrorists have turned it into a pastime. When over 270 Chibok schoolgirls were abducted […]

The #NorthIsBleeding protest, organised against the backdrop of unending insecurity and killings ravaging states in the North, reached the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja at the weekend, an indication that the people are thoroughly frustrated with the prevailing situation and would want their leaders to act immediately. It all began a week ago, when some Nigerians […]

AT independence in 1960, Nigeria was classified as a developing new nation. But 61 years later, we are among the most underdeveloped and backward countries in the world.  All our economic, social, political and human development indices are among the worst while the deficits are among the highest. The recent revelation that there are 56,000 […]

IT is now conventional wisdom to see the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, in the same light as the “common flu”: it is here to stay. In cold countries, people take the vaccine every year to protect against annually-mutating flu. At this time last year, Nigerians were beginning to relax from the first wave of the virus […]

A legislative proposal that has suffered a high level of frustration is the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2010. During President Muhammadu Buhari’s first tenure, strenuous efforts were made by the Eighth National Assembly led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki to upgrade our electoral laws. But because these amendments were perceived as being capable of […]

AFTER a prolonged period of absence from the public eye, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, has resurfaced and given insights into the manner in which recovered looted funds have been handled by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. While briefing the media on the contributions of his Committee on […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has once again reaffirmed his image as a people-oriented leader, with the suspension of the scheduled “Lagos Peace Walk” which was stoking political tension in the nation’s economic capital. The “Walk” was part of the contents of the Governor’s pronouncements on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, while addressing the state’s […]

Up till 2014, most reputable international investment ranking organisations reported Nigeria as the number one investment destination in Africa. In particular, a United States-based economic advisory firm, Frontiers Strategy Group, affirmed that Nigeria had continued to attract growing interest of international organisations and multinationals in spite of Boko Haram insurgency marked with suicide bombings. Since […]

FOR the second time this year, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has engaged in a tit-for-tat with our international partners over bilateral rows. In June, Nigeria banned micro-blogging site, Twitter, from operating within the country in retaliation for the censure and suspension of President Buhari’s Twitter handle over comments that the tech giant considered an infringement […]

THE Federal Government’s Road Infrastructure and Refreshment Tax Credit Scheme, RIRTCS, received a massive boost recently when the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, announced the approval of newly-commercialised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s, application to play a major, ambitious role in roads reconstruction nationwide. Perhaps taking a leaf from the Dangote Group’s successful […]

VICE President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s recent call for state governors to start seeing their sub-national entities as “sovereign” units carries many implications. At the maiden edition of the Ekiti State Investment Forum, the VP observed: “You have a bigger GDP than many nations. There is a different mindset when you are sure of a monthly […]

The tragic end of Master Sylvester Oromoni Jr has sparked off another round of social outrage, with widespread demands for justice. Oromoni, an 11-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, had reported threats to his life by senior students who were trying to force him to join their cult to the school authorities. […]

THE submission of the 309-page Report of the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the Restitution for Victims of SARS-related Abuses and Other Matters last Monday was a demonstration of the good faith which the Lagos State Government, LASG, adopted to unravel what really happened at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020. […]

IT is encouraging to see that President Muhammadu Buhari is in touch with elders and leaders of the Igbo nation in efforts to resolve the crisis of confidence between the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, and the Federal Government over the latest detention of IPOB’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The IPOB secessionist leader was recaptured […]