IT is gladdening to know that, at last, the Lagos State Government is taking the lead in tackling the long-desired need to upgrade the attitude of health sector workers for better service delivery.

The Nigerian team led by Coach Paul Aigbogun was eliminated from the tournament on Monday, June 3, 2019 after playing four matches in which it won one, drew one, and lost two.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, paramilitary squads, notably the neo-Janjaweed Rapid Support Forces, RSF, trying to quell protests that continued even after the ousting of President Omar Al Bashir’s 30-year regime, opened fire directly on the protesters.

Following the expiration of the eighth National Assembly consisting of the Senate led by Dr Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives headed by Hon. Yakubu Dogara, a momentous era of feisty Legislative – Executive relationship came to an end on Thursday, June 6, 2019, as President Muhammadu Buhari formally dissolved it in line with constitutional provisions.

RECENTLY, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, disclosed that it discovered over 4,000 ghost pensioners among the 20,000 police pensioners it inherited. According to PTAD, the ghost pensioners were discovered during the ongoing pensioners’ verification and biometric data capturing exercise in Benin, Edo State.

ONE of the worrisome fallouts of the war against the Boko Haram Islamic terror in the North East is the unhealthy relationship between our armed forces and the myriads of non-governmental organisations, NGOs, involved in humanitarian activities in the sector.

These show a negative start to the 2019 economic and financial year. The second quarter is not looking better on some of the indicators. But we hope that some corrective measures should be taken to address the weak lines.

It was among the six states created on October 1, 1996 by the late General Sani Abacha, who also created the unofficial six geopolitical zones evenly distributed between the North and South.

MILLIONS of Nigerians were shocked and disappointed on May 29, 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari refused to make an inauguration speech after he was sworn-in for a second term in Abuja. That was a serious slight on a hallowed democratic tradition observed all over the world, even in countries with entrenched dictatorships.

OVER the past 13 years or so when the negative effects of some port reforms, coupled with deregulation of the downstream oil sector, spilled thousands of trucks, trailers and tankers onto the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and adjoining communities in Apapa, the Federal and Lagos State governments have issued several ultimatums for their clearance to no avail. […]

THE long stretch of 30-day fasting has ended with festivity, happiness and merriment. It was a season of worship, commitment, discipline, charity, love and forgiveness, culminating in the celebration of Eid-il-Fitr otherwise known as Festival of breaking fast.

Unfortunately, many members of that squad referred to as The Golden Generation of the Eagles – Captain Stephen Keshi, Uche Okafor, Thompson Oliha, Rashidi Yekini and Wilfred Agbonavbare – died without receiving their rewards.

AS President Muhammadu Buhari and the various elected or re-elected governors of 29 states begin their tenures of office, we wish to put on their tables the most pressing issues they should give utmost priority to pull Nigeria back from increasing cases of insecurity, economic doldrums and other social problems plaguing the country.

FIVE months after the National Assembly dispatched the nominations for the National Assembly Service Commission, NASC, to President Muhammadu Buhari the President is yet to formally make the nominations as required by the provisions of the National Assembly Service Commission Act.

TODAY marks exactly 20 years of our return to democratic rule. On May 29, 1999, the military regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar handed over power to an elected President, Olusegun Obasanjo, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.