Tackling frequent building collapses
Between January 2020 and June 2026, Nigeria recorded dozens of building collapses that killed hundreds and injured many more. Nationally, more than 650 collapses have killed over 1,600 people since 1974, according to figures the Federal Government cited last month. Lagos, where rapid urban growth and chronic flooding concentrate risk, accounts for over half of […]
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.
Defusing basic education time-bomb
The National Council on Education, NCE, without pondering the implications of this unwholesome measure, approved it for implementation as from September 2014 amidst protests from Christian and Muslim interest groups
