Giving ex-prisoners another chance
The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]
The NYSC uniform controversy
THE controversy surrounding the two female members of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, recently ejected from their Orientation Camp in Ebonyi State brings out the unsavoury complications that our negative attitude to religion impose on our public lives.
China tells it to our face
NIGERIA’s presidents since the return of democracy in 1999 have tended to model themselves as chief salesmen of the nation.
Averting oil sector strike this Yuletide
A COMMON belief in Nigeria is that when the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, sneeze by way of a strike threat, the rest of the country catches cold.
FIRS: Continuity or change?
BY December 15, 2019, the four-year tenure of Dr. William Babatunde Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, will officially wind up. The question is: should President Muhammadu Buhari renew Fowler’s tenure or shop for a replacement?
Away with the Hate Speech Bill (2)
ALL well-meaning Nigerians and committed defenders of our hard-won democracy have every justification to rise in unison against, not just the Hate Speech Bill sponsored by Senator Sabi Abdullahi, but also the Anti-Social Media Bill undergoing attention in the Senate.
