Editorial
8 Mar
The shocking exit of one of the most illustrious players of the Nigerian banking sector, Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe, along with six others, is tragic in all sense.
6 Mar
As efforts are afoot towards empowering state governments to own and manage police formation in their respective jurisdictions, there is a need to focus on how states can effectively manage police forces of their own without a carry-over of the excesses...
5 Mar
The Tinubu administration has also signed into law the Electricity Act 2023 that enables states to generate, transmit and distribute power in their jurisdictions.
4 Mar
The increasingly loud demand that state governments justify the increase in funds received from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FACC) is quite justified.
3 Mar
The National Assembly’s fresh proposal for an increase in the budget of the Special Intervention Projects (SIP), popularly known as the Constituency Projects, is uncalled for and undeserving of a positive consideration.
1 Mar
The dislocation of human and vehicular movement in parts of Lagos, following the torrential rainfall days ago, is not a good sign of things to come in the state, as the dry season gradually drags to an end.
29 Feb
The undercurrent of arguments for and against the plan by the government to ban production, sales and distribution of alcohol in sachets and miniature bottles has made it imperative for the opposing parties to engage more closely with a view to finding a lasting and mutually agreeable resolution.
28 Feb
The postponement of Senegal’s February 25 presidential election by the incumbent, and outgoing President Macky Sall, ostensibly for proper arrangements to be made for the presidential election to be held at another..
27 Feb
The recent revelation by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), in its 2024 Outlook document that, of 345 companies in Africa with yearly turnover revenue of $1 billion, only 23 are in Nigeria
26 Feb
The report is welcomed that the Federal Government is gearing up to assess its ministries, departments, and agencies on their respective performance within the one-year budget cycle from June 2023.
25 Feb
The decision of the Federal Government to proceed with the trial of Nnamdi Kanu for terrorism may be legally expedient, it however is only likely to prolong the tension surrounding the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
23 Feb
Reported hitches, irregularities and voter apathy in the February 3, 2024 by-elections and re-run polls in three senatorial districts, 17 federal and 28 state constituencies across the country are neither positive signals of progress in the electoral system nor cheering indicators of democratic consolidation.
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