Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
As Saraki’s memorable Eighth Senate winds up
WITHIN a few days, the Eighth National Assembly with the President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki as its Head, will wind up.
Declare emergency on Lagos-Badagry Express
LAST Monday, angry youths and students of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos, joined by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, marched along the unbelievably bad Lagos-Badagry Expressway in protest.
Attracting right investment to maritime sector
We applaud the ray of hope on the security aspect of the troubled maritime ecosystem which came with the recent report by the International Maritime Bureau, IMB, that piracy declined in Nigerian waters in the first quarter of 2019.
Fowler’s FIRS tax revolution
AS the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari winds up within the next nine days, it is understandable that Nigerians are looking back at the passing four years to see if (and where) the “change” the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, promised showed up beyond mere propaganda.
The need to purify our Police Force
ON April 21, 2019, 25-year-old Akeem Akinsanya was killed by a bullet shot by an officer of the Zonal Intervention Squad of Zone 2 Police Command at Iyana Coker area of Ifo, Ogun State. Before Akinsanya, 20-year-old Ada Ifeanyi and her boyfriend were also shot dead by a police officer in the Ajegunle area of Lagos on April 13, 2019.
