Researches have proved that recreation, sports, arts appreciation and outdoor pursuits reduce self-destructive and anti-social behaviours which have recently reared their ugly heads among us in the spate of suicides.

WITHIN a few days, the Eighth National Assembly with the President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki as its Head, will wind up.

LAST Monday, angry youths and students of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos, joined by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, marched along the unbelievably bad Lagos-Badagry Expressway in protest.

We applaud the ray of hope on the security aspect of the troubled maritime ecosystem which came with the recent report by the International Maritime Bureau, IMB, that piracy declined in Nigerian waters in the first quarter of 2019.

AS the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari winds up within the next nine days, it is understandable that Nigerians are looking back at the passing four years to see if (and where) the “change” the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, promised showed up beyond mere propaganda.

ON April 21, 2019, 25-year-old Akeem Akinsanya was killed by a bullet shot by an officer of the Zonal Intervention Squad of Zone 2 Police Command at Iyana Coker area of Ifo, Ogun State. Before Akinsanya, 20-year-old Ada Ifeanyi and her boyfriend were also shot dead by a police officer in the Ajegunle area of Lagos on April 13, 2019.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, inaugurated the North East Development Commission, NEDC, with retired General Paul Tarfa as its Chairman. The work of the Board is to rehabilitate the zone which has been devastated by the twin evils of Boko Haram Islamic terrorism and the massive depletion of the Lake Chad.

NFIU also instructed that no cash withdrawal of more than N500, 000 per day should be authorised by financial institutions except when done through valid cheques and electronic transfers.

The “bandits” that had held Zamfara State by the jugular have spread their mayhem into adjoining Niger, Kaduna and Katsina states, and the fringes of Sokoto State, though the Army insists they are fleeing from the ongoing “Operation Scorpion Sting III” in Zamfara State.

THE death of the Military Governor of the defunct Mid-Western Region and one-time Chief of Army Staff, Major General David Akpode Ejoor, represents a further depletion of Nigeria’s first generation military officers who were active participants in the events that shaped the country’s slowly evolving nationhood.

TO commemorate the Workers’ Day, the Lagos State Government on May 1, 2019 launched new buses under the Bus Reform Initiative, BRI, on five major routes. Mr. Timi Olajide of the Lagos Bus Services Limited, operator of the buses, had disclosed that the 5,000 buses planned for the initiative will aid Lagos residents to plan their journeys. They will also provide comfort and safety for commuters.

THE recently concluded Easter season witnessed unusual developments in the highly charged political atmosphere of Rivers State when the two main political “warlords” lifted what appeared as olive branches for the peaceful coexistence and development of the state. On Wednesday, April 12, 2019, Governor Nyesom Wike and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in […]

WITH the signing into law of the National Minimum Wage Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, the nation is likely to be challenged by a lot of industrial hiccups, especially at the state and private sector levels. The Federal Government, with the lion’s share of the national revenue formula and flexible ways and means at its disposal, can cope better.

THE attention of the public has recently been drawn to the protracted controversy over the implementation of the Federal Government’s Export Expansion Grant, EEG, a laudable policy aimed at driving non-oil exports and ultimately diversifying Nigeria’s economy and the revenue base.

THE attention of the public has recently been drawn to the protracted controversy over the implementation of the Federal Government’s Export Expansion Grant, EEG, a laudable policy aimed at driving non-oil exports and ultimately diversifying Nigeria’s economy and the revenue base.