Editorial

The revelations contained in a report by the Special Investigator on the Central Bank of Nigeria and Related Entities, reported last week in the media, have again thrown up the …

American commentators today are saying with increasing regularity that the nation is more polarised now than at any point since its 1860-65 Civil War.  In some ways, this is an …

For the first time in a long while, Nigeria is back where the country truly belongs: at the top of Africa. The ‘giant of Africa’ has been wobbling for some …

THE judiciary in Nigeria has been on trial in recent times. Its integrity has been called to question severally not necessarily because it is as guilty on all fronts as …

Three Nigerian states went to the polls last Saturday in an off-cycle election and the results were greeted with the usual protests and rejection by those who were not declared …

On July 15, 1981, one of the world’s fastest-rising sprinters and two-time member of the Nigerian Olympic team, Dele Ndubuisi Udo, was shot and killed at Ojuelegba, Lagos, by a …

THE rate at which the Nigerian currency is tumbling against international currencies is a real tragedy. Although there has been a consistent decline in the value of the naira in …

ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while campaigning for the Nigerian presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had given indications of what his government team would look like …

THE issue of over-bloated Federal Executive Council has been a recurring decimal in Nigeria’s governance space. Every administration has suffered this malaise. Even the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration which came with …

NINETEEN newly elected Nigerian state governors recently returned from Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, where they had a one-week retreat sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme. Although it …