Preventing yet another resident doctors’ strike
Nigeria must not sleepwalk into another strike by resident doctors. At its 46th Annual General Meeting in Calabar, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) gave the Federal Government 14 days to resolve outstanding agreements or face industrial action. Its complaints are familiar: remuneration that no longer reflects economic realities, delayed career progression and professional […]
Finish Boko Haram war and come home
The Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum and his immediate predecessor, Kashim Shettima(now a Senator), have rushed to the Presidential Villa in Abuja to plead for more military push to stop the total collapse of the security situation.
Tasks before Buhari’s ‘Next Level’ team
FIVE months after Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared him the winner of the 2019 presidential election, and three months after he was sworn-in for a second term, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sworn-in his ministers.
Buhari’s self-insulation from his Ministers
NIGERIANS are worried at President Muhammadu Buhari’s instruction to his newly-inaugurated 43 Ministers not to seek direct audience with him as his second term cabinet was inaugurated three months after he was sworn-in.
Kudos to Police for nabbing Wadume
IT is a well-recognised fact that when the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, really wants to do a good job they are capable of doing more than a good job. It has been proved time and again that any time our police personnel are given assignments outside the shores of this country they always perform as well as the best of their peers from other countries.
An agenda for Buhari-Ramaphosa summit
WE wish to emphasise that the proposed meeting between Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, is a welcome development.
