Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
Constituency project monitoring team
IT is gladdening to know that the Federal Government has decided to monitor and verify constituency projects before paying contractors. It is shocking that such a mechanism was not put in place in when the idea was conceived and only had to be done after the nation lost over a trillion naira in the past […]
Goodbye 2019, hello 2020 (2)
WHAT a special day today is! It is both the beginning of the year 2020 and also the start of the third decade of the third millennium in the epoch of our Lord.
Goodbye 2019, hello 2020 (1)
TODAY, December 31, we bid farewell to the year 2019, the tail-end of the second decade of the new millennium, during which we see a new world ruled by the Internet foisted on us by information and computer technology.
At last, freedom for Dasuki, Sowore
AS night fell on Tuesday, December 24, 2019, news came that two of Nigeria’s prisoners of conscience: retired Col. Sambo Dasuki and SaharaReporters publisher, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, had been set free from detention by the Federal Government.
The freeze on National Honours awards
ONE of the areas we feel the President Muhammadu Buhari government deserves a pat on the back is the freeze on the conferment of National Honours Awards to so-called “deserving Nigerians”.
Merry Christmas, Mother Earth!
WE are dedicating this year’s hearty Christmas wishes to Mother Earth and all its living inhabitants: mankind, animals and plants.
Nigeria’s free train rides
THE world is watching to see how investing in Nigeria’s seriously-deficient infrastructure can pay off based on our tottering experiments in the railways sector. From the look of things so far, we do not seem to be on the right footing to encourage massive foreign investments.
Buffers against the emerging inflation
THE economic outlook for inflation is not favourable, and the pressure points are clear. As at the second week of December 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, had yet to announce the inflation reading for the month of November 2019.
Visa on arrival – we say No
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari took Nigerians by surprise when he announced a “Visa on Arrival” policy for all Africans travelling to Nigeria as from January 2020 at the Aswan Forum convened by the Chairman of the African Union, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el Sisi.
Restoration of Jan-Dec budget cycle
FOLLOWING the transmission of the 2020 Federal Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly to President Muhammadu Buhari and its assent into law by the latter, we wish to commend the Executive and Legislative arms for effectively restoring the January to December budget cycle which was fractured as a result of irresponsibility by public officials.
