Building permit in Lagos: Approval must end in inspection
FOR much of this week, and as we inch closer to the next general elections, issues about and appertaining to the economy and well-being of Nigerians dominate discourse everywhere — in the traditional media, the social media, at beer parlours, and inside buses as commuters move from one point to another. Government and its spokesmen […]
Don’t starve prison inmates
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.
Audit of looted funds should be total
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.
Managing Zimbabwe’s post-Mugabe era
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.
That UN damning report on PINE corruption
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
States and unclaimed UBEC funds
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.
Brighter chances for 2018 budget
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.
Tackling Apapa gridlock decisively
IN apparent reaction to the intense media advocacy mounted by Vanguard Newspapers in the past week, the Federal and Lagos State Governments are taking steps to tackle the Apapa gridlock head-on.
N2 billion chicken wasting away
THE statement made by the immediate past President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr Ayoola Oduntan, that N2 billion worth of locally produced chicken are wasting away in cold rooms in Nigeria, should embarrass all Nigerians as it makes a complete mockery of our Made-in-Nigeria slogan. It should also challenge us to save Nigeria’s poultry sector from collapse and boost our efforts at economic diversification.
Probe missionary’s death in Niger Delta
AFTER a lull, bad news is once again coming from the creeks of the Niger Delta. Just as some militant groups served notice of their intention to resume the destruction of pipelines and other facilities in the oil-rich region, the sad news came of the death of a British missionary, Mr Ian Squire, in the hands of his kidnappers.
Solving the Kaduna teachers’ crisis
THE shameful state of education in our country has manifested again in the crisis rocking Kaduna State where over 22,000 teachers are on the firing line due to alleged lack of requisite qualification to teach.
