THE Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Finance, recently commenced investigative actions over alleged misconducts by the suspended Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo.

LAST week the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that with Yuletide approaching, the smuggling of rice, fish and poultry is increasing. Apart from these, any knowledgeable observer also knows that other prohibited essential food items such as vegetable oil, tomato puree, sugar and pasta among others, are also being brought in illegally by importers.

THE Muhammadu Buhari regime and its predecessor, the Goodluck Jonathan government, in the past five years, struggled hard to save Nigerians from the harrowing experience of fuel scarcity, long queues at filling stations and the accompanying high cost of petroleum products.

WE join millions of Nigerians of goodwill to welcome back Master Ali Ahmadu, the six year-old little boy crippled when motorcycles ridden by Boko Haram Islamic insurgents broke his spine in Chibok. He was wheeled into an aircraft three months ago but returned from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday this week striding confidently and happily.

COMPLAINTS over alleged excesses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force have assumed a tumultuous point, with the floating last week of #ENDSARS, a campaign to scrap the squad in the social media.

THERE are many indicators in our body polity to prove that Nigeria is still transiting from military rule to democracy, even though the Army vacated the political scene nearly 20 years ago. One of them is the continued handling with impunity of funds belonging to the states by the Federal Government.

THE decision of the Borno State Government to convert the home of Muhammad Yusuf, the late founder of Boko Haram into a museum is a welcome development. However, certain issues need to be put to rest in actualising this laudable project.

The ball is in the court of Nigeria, not just because of her leading position in the sub-region and Africa as a whole, but more importantly, because our citizens constitute the largest population of the victims of the trans-Saharan human misery.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been acclaimed for the seemingly seamless conduct of the November 18, 2007, governorship election in Anambra State.

THE Federal Government must move quickly to save about 65,000 inmates in our prisons nationwide from imminent starvation by providing adequate funds for their feeding. We find as callous and incomprehensible a situation whereby contractors who provide the rations for our prisoners have not been paid for over two years highly callous and irresponsible.

IT is coming late in the four-year life of this regime, but the setting up of the Audit Committee on the Recovery and Management of Stolen Assets, ACRMSA, by President Muhammadu Buhari is a welcome development.

THE reluctant resignation by former President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, opened a new and anxious chapter in the history of Zimbabwe, which lived for 37 years under the iron thumb of the wily and stubborn 93-year-old sit-tight ruler.

AS if further justifying the sack of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr David Babachir Lawal, over the scale of alleged corruption in catering for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North East, a fresh damning report demands urgent action to bring the alleged profiteers in human misery t

IT is a major symptom of the rot in the quality of leadership in the country that many states have failed to provide the counterpart funds required to collect their shares of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, while presenting the 2018 Budget to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, made a crucial confession couched as a promise. He promised to raise the implementation of the 2017 Budget to “about 50 per cent” by the end of December this year.