The derailment of value system
Rather than properly address the raging issue of the biting economic recession by announcing a well-articulated communication plan to let the people understand what is happening to them or to offer...
View ArticleCelebrating the Youth
We missed our usual annual editorial in celebration of the teeming youth population on August 12, this year, because we had many subject matters that needed urgent and serious mention. The issue of...
View ArticleFifty-six years of Independence
As usual, Nigerian celebrated its 56th Independence anniversary on October 1. It was the day in 1960 the Union Jack was lowered and the Green-White-Green Nigerian flag hoisted in its place as a sign of...
View ArticleTime to Restructure Nigeria
Last week, one of Nigeria’s foremost traditional rulers, Obi of Onitsha, Dr. Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, joined other well-meaning Nigerians to call for the immediate restructuring of the country in a...
View ArticleThe Judiciary On Trial
The Directorate of State Security, DSS penultimate week, swooped on the homes of six High Court judges and two Justices of the Supreme Court with a search warrant issued by an Abuja magistrate court....
View ArticleNigeria Needs a Credible Population Census
The Senate last week called on President Buhari to make a proclamation and also release adequate funds for the conduct of a population and housing census in 2018.The last census was conducted in 2006...
View ArticleChecking the excesses of immigration officials
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) is the agency that sits at the major gateways into the country and its officials make the first contact with travellers coming into Nigeria and the last with...
View ArticleEnhancing world peace through science
It is evident that the world has advanced tremendously in the last few centuries based on scientific and technological breakthroughs, even as much of its perils are also put at the doorstep of science...
View ArticleStill on FG’s $30b loan
President Muhammadu Buhari recently requested the Senate to approve a foreign loan of $29.96 billion for the execution of infrastructural projects across the country for the 2017-2019 fiscal years. The...
View ArticlePolice checkpoints in the south east
Many Inspectors General of Police have made efforts to remove checkpoints from Nigerian roads. IGP Ogbonnaya Onovo banned checkpoints in July 2010, citing numerous fatal accidents caused by checkpoints...
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