Taking decisive action against open defecation
The renewed campaign against open defecation should not become another ceremonial exercise that ends with lofty declarations and forgotten promises. Nigeria has held many conferences, unveiled policy documents and staged publicity events on sanitation and yet remains one of the world’s largest centres of open defecation. The latest efforts by the Federal Ministry of Water […]
No to fuel scarcity this Yuletide
ADMITTEDLY there is no time of the year when union strikes and the scarcity of petroleum products are convenient and welcome. But whenever it comes at Christmas/New Year season (the Yuletide), the experience is always nightmarish and excruciating to all and sundry. This is one important reason that the government and all interest groups involved […]
Buhari should sign the Electoral Bill
IT is amazing that just two months to the 2019 general elections the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill, the legal framework aimed at conducting the highest level of error-free polls so far in our history, is still gathering dust on the table of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Eastern railways controversy
THE delay in the resuscitation of the Eastern railway network is a great disservice to efforts to diversify the economy. Cognisant of this, the Senate Joint Committee on Land Transport and Local and Foreign Debts chaired by Senator Gbenga Ashafa, recently invited the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to explain factors behind what is being seen as the “exclusion” of the Eastern rails from the Muhammadu Buhari regime’s railway agenda.
Service Chiefs at Buhari’s flag-off
WATCHERS of our 19 year-old democracy are getting increasingly worried at the prospects of a free and fair conduct of the 2019 general elections.
As oil price crisis looms again
As at end of November 2018, international oil price had crashed below the 2019 Federal Budget oil price benchmark of $60 per barrel, after about seven weeks of free fall. Oil price had peaked at $86 per barrel early October.
