HAVING forced through the deregulation and subsidy removal policy which it now blames previous regimes of lacking the “courage” to implement, the Buhari regime owes Nigerians an unreserved apology for truncating it during our economic boom nine years ago. In spite of the dirty politics associated with the deregulation and subsidy removal, we, however, see […]

ORDINARILY, we should be giving the Muhammadu Buhari administration a pat on the back for “summoning the courage” to implement the full deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector and total withdrawal of petrol subsidies. For over 20 years, we have agitated for this as means of ending fuel scarcity, black marketeering, frequent petroleum industry labour […]

WE are in full support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for efforts to be channelled towards setting a reasonable time limit for criminal cases. He handed this charge to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in a keynote address read on his behalf through a virtual interaction by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. While stressing that the […]

AN early confirmation of the appointments of the pioneer executive of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, NCPD, by the Senate is now awaited to enable the new agency start work. On August 24, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari named Hussaini Kangiwa, Chairman and Abba Ibrahim, Secretary of the new Commission. Six people living with […]

  THE much-anticipated reopening of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, AIIAE, took place on schedule on Sunday, August 30, 2020. But it ran into a controversy when it was discovered that much work is still required to be done before the remodelling project is completed. The videos of construction scaffolds still adorning the main […]

WE congratulate Nigeria’s Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina for his re-election as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, by the Bank’s Board of Directors with the full support of other stakeholders on August 24, 2020. It is a deserved victory because in politics, it is said that one good term deserves another. Adesina’s successful implementation of […]

ONE of Nigeria’s obvious national hobbies is the routine tinkering with the constitution. Whether under military or civilian regimes, the impulse to convene conferences towards the promulgation of new constitutions or the routine amendments of existing ones is always with us, but we still end up with the same unsatisfactory constitutional document. The Ninth Senate […]

WHEN will Nigeria ever have a stable social sector? When shall we have at least ten years of unbroken services in the education and health sectors? When will government learn to fulfill its obligations to the social sector workforce to enable them deliver unbroken services to the people, especially ordinary citizens? These questions are germane […]

THE 60th edition of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference which held in Lagos between Wednesday and Saturday, August 26 and 29, 2020, was nearly scuppered by the usual Nigerian demon of injecting ethno-religious and sectional sentiments into efforts to forge a common direction for this country. The conference, the first virtual outing […]

IT was very broadly predicted that the prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic would come with severe adverse economic consequences all over the world. As we enter the seventh month of the pandemic in Nigeria with a considerable measure of economic reopening, the realities of our situation have hit very hard. Though nobody is […]