MONDAY, August 16, 2021 will go down as a watershed in the Nigerian oil industry. It was the day President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, into law, thus ending a 13-year tortuous odyssey under three different presidents. It also addresses the archaic legal framework bedevilling the sector that accounts for much of […]

The disregard with which we treat research and researchers in this part of our world is partly responsible for the relative lack of data and statistics in many fields of human endeavours in Nigeria and Africa. Without data and statistics, meaningful socio-political and economic policies  that affect human lives will be impossible. Statistics is the […]

VICE President Yemi Osinbajo, at the 61st  Independence Anniversary Interdenominational Church Service, opined that in spite of our security, economic, religious and ethnic challenges, the founding visions of Nigeria “remain undefeated”. Being at the helm of the leadership of our country, we can understand the effort by the vice president to remain upbeat in the […]

THE Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to baffle Nigerians and the world out there with its policies in the handling of jihadist terrorism, the main insecurity challenge facing the country. The use of Operation Safe Corridor, OSC, to give the so-called repentant Boko Haram terrorists a safe and comfortable landing after their […]

In Nigeria, public infrastructure vandalism is a thriving “business”. There are ready markets and merchants who specialise in the uptake of stolen public sector goods. And with the law enforcement agents not doing their jobs properly, more miscreants are emboldened to raid amenities meant to make life more worth living for the citizenry. For ages, […]