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.

ON April 7, 2019, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, announced the Federal Government’s decision to ban all mining activities in the severely security-challenged Zamfara State. This was probably a response to a spate of protests by some indigenes of the state at Abuja.

IT is barely one month to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term. In another six weeks or so, the Eighth National Assembly will also wind up.

TODAY is International Workers Day or Labour Day. It is also known as May Day, though it has little to do with an ancient European spring festival usually celebrated on May 1. May Day is the day set aside by the International Labour movement since 1904 to highlight the conditions, struggles, victories, hopes and aspirations of workers.

AS President Muhammadu Buhari prepares for his swearing-in for a second term in office, he has already asked members of his cabinet to prepare and submit their handover notes.

THE renewable energy revolution is spreading across the globe, especially in developed and not-so-developed economies. Last month, for the first time ever, electric vehicles outsold cars with internal combustion engines in Norway, accounting for 58.4  per cent of all vehicles sold. By 2025, Norway plans to stop sales of new gas and diesel passenger cars and vans.

AMONG many others, two prominent Nigerians during the Easter weekend, raised the alarm over threats posed by hunger and poverty in Nigeria.

THERE is a frightening amount of hate speech circulating in the Nigerian political atmosphere right now. It was barely noticeable in 2011 when former President Goodluck Jonathan made his first presidential run.

Al-Bashir bestrode Sudan like an emperor. To strengthen his autocratic hold on power, he had introduced policies that sustained corruption and nepotism. It was a situation that also triggered off years of conflict and insecurity in the Darfur, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile.

EASTER bespeaks eloquently of sadness before joy, pain before gain and the treasures that are often cleverly hidden under human sufferings and tribulations. The truth is that even joy itself would lose its value or flavour if there is no struggle leading up to it.

This former four-lane road, which the Lagos State Government started reconstructing roughly two years ago, has been expanded into a ten-lane marvel with two flyover bridges at Mafoluku and Hajj Camp and at least one pedestrian overhead bridge at Ajao.

For many years, our politicians have neglected to build infrastructure and strong institutions which make life more abundant for the people. They have neglected the roads, schools, hospitals, and other social amenities. They have undermined and corrupted the judiciary, police, civil service, electoral bodies and other institutions.

Apart from Lagos where armed thugs disrupted the elections and maliciously disenfranchised a section of the population, and the Kano supplementary election in which security agents failed to rein-in marauding hoodlums, the Police generally performed creditably during the 2019 general elections.