Cracking down on fuel pump fraud
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s (NMDPRA) latest crackdown on fuel under-dispensing is unquestionably necessary, though it is a sporadic routine that is never sustained. Its directive that all filling stations immediately calibrate and verify their dispensers and totalisers, backed by the threat of licence revocation for persistent or serious violations, addresses a […]
Ending ordeal of motorists on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
THE governments of Lagos and Ogun states, along with the Federal Government, must sit up in their law enforcement responsibility, particularly as it concerns the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. If the importance of this national road artery is often lost on the citizenry, it must not be so with those who are governing […]
Upsurge in brazen robberies
Insecurity in Nigeria has in recent years been signposted mainly by terrorism, banditry, herdsmen’s attacks and kidnappings for ransom. Because of the inability of the law enforcement agents to bring the situation under control, the more traditional urban crime of armed robbery has now assumed a frightening dimension. Armed robbers now notify their prospective victims […]
Havoc of drug abuse
When President Muhammadu Buhari described drug trafficking and abuse as being “worse than insurgency and banditry”, he sought to draw the attention of Nigerians to the depth of danger that this menace poses to society. Hard drugs are part of the fuels that ignite the spirit to embrace enterprises usually thought of as impossible for […]
Keeping Nigeria’s best brains in the country
WHILE we rejoice at the “good news” of the British Government’s approval of work permits for Nigerian international students who wish to work in Britain after the completion of a UK degree at bachelor’s degree level or above, we must also consider the disadvantage – brain drain. For 2020 alone, out of 13, 000 young […]
Nigerians need more than food from G7 nations
NIGERIANS are grateful that the G7 group of nations, an inter-governmental organisation made up of the world’s largest developed economies – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada – has appropriated $382 million (N180 billion) to combat the worsening food crisis and famine in Boko Haram-ravaged North-East Nigeria. The project, tagged […]
