Making Nigeria Africa’s energy flagship
Nigeria’s ambition to position itself as Africa’s energy frontier, as promoted by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, at the 25th World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is apt. With substantial oil and gas reserves, the country possesses the natural resources to become the continent’s major energy investment destination. But […]
Resolving Nigeria – Ghana trade disputes
IT is cheering news that the hundreds of Nigerian-owned businesses earlier shut in Ghana are being reopened after over six months of closure. This might be part of a gradual easing of months-long tensions between the two West African Anglophone countries over trade disputes and a diplomatic spat, with Ghana more on the offensive. These […]
The danger in reopening schools now
WE stand firmly on the same page with the Federal Government that schools should not be reopened for now. Reopening schools at this juncture of the coronavirus pandemic is a romance with disaster. After a recent meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, announced that it was suspending plans […]
Ghana’s pledge to rebuild Nigerian diplomatic property
WE are mollified by the steps the Republic of Ghana has so far taken to vitiate the latest act of diplomatic hostility towards Nigeria through the demolition of buildings in the compound of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra. Some weeks ago, an agent of the Osu Traditional Council in Accra went to Nigeria’s diplomatic […]
Broadcast Code: NBC’s curious processes
NIGERIA’s latest broadcasting regulatory framework, which the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, released to the industry and general public on May 27, 2020, is a mish-mash of defective thinking, with a potential to leave the industry and the wider economy worse off. Prefaced with the rote claim of a desire to make the industry more robust […]
Why reopening of worship centres is dicey
THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, this week renewed its call for the reopening of worship centres in Lagos and Ogun states which remained shut on the orders of the state governors despite the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19’s earlier easing of the closure. The two states are among the highest-risk areas in the federation. […]
