THE implementation of the new Finance Law 2020 has started with the Value-Added Tax increase set to kick-off next month. The Federal Government had ignored suggestions by informed analysts to reconsider some of its provisions. We now address the necessary palliative measures that should be taken to reduce its negative impacts on the people. The […]

FOR the umpteenth time, the Lagos State Government has announced plans to tackle the menace of commercial motorcycles (okada), tricycles (keke) and yellow buses (danfo) in the major highways of the nation’s economic capital.

THE reasons for our increased interest in the rail transport sector are not farfetched. We have noticed a commendable commitment by the Federal Government to rebuild and modernise the Nigerian railway infrastructure. This appears to have gone beyond mere political rhetoric.

WE are seriously perturbed by the lamentations of the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, who was recently on one of his monthly inspection tours of the Lagos-Ibadan section of the Lagos-Kano standard gauge railway project.

IT seems that governance and the running of our public affairs have been reduced to circus shows. Institutions are established by the constitution. Their functions and powers are clearly spelt out, yet these institutions wait for the President to give “marching orders” before some importance is attached to what should be normal routines.

SINCE the Private/Public Partnership model of infrastructural development was introduced in Nigeria in the President Olusegun Obasanjo era, we have strongly and consistently advocated for the strengthening of this model as a means of fast-tracking Nigeria’s exit from its severe infrastructure deficit.

THE Nigerian Civil War ended 50 years ago, but it continued to rage in the hearts of the power elite. General Yakubu Gowon (retd) declared “No Victor, No Vanquished” and also set up the Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation programme.

EVEN though January 15, was the day General Yakubu Gowon’s Federal Military Government formally received the instruments of surrender from Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s secessionist Republic of Biafra, January 13, 1970 was the actual date that the guns went silent on both sides.

THE 1964 prediction by the media and communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan, that the world will become a “global village” due to advancement in communication technology, has come to pass. Amazing inventions have shrunk the world.

THE 2019 general elections took place barely 10 months ago, and those declared winners were installed a little over six months ago. Yet, it seems the politics of the next general election year 2023 is already in play.

ON Thursday last week, the Western Nigerian Security Network, tagged “Operation Amotekun” (Leopard) was launched by governors of the South West geopolitical zone.

NIGERIANS have been reacting with mixed feelings over the Federal Government’s recent decision to withdraw the military from the various theatres of operation around the country.

AS the year 2019 drew to an end the figures that emerged, depicting the standing of our healthcare system in the world ought to embarrass our leaders if they are still capable of being embarrassed.

THE proactive step taken by the Inspector-General of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, to sound a red alert nationwide over the effect of rising tensions between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran is here in Nigeria welcome and timely.

A high point of President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year 2020 message was his pledge to “stand down” when his second term expires in 2023. This has sparked off a controversy.