Customs, agents, dealers row over new vehicle import valuation system
Nigerians may need to brace up for higher cost of vehicles, as concerns mount that the prices of imported vehicles into the country will skyrocket, The post Customs, agents, dealers row over new...
View ArticleContinuous humiliation of students by governments, officials
At regular intervals, teaching and research grind to a halt in public tertiary institutions. But it appears many stakeholders, especially affected governments The post Continuous humiliation of...
View ArticleAftermath of #EndSARS protests: Policing crippled, insecurity escalates
Since Nigerian youths, under the #EndSARS Movement, took to the streets over a year ago to protest against widespread police brutality against the citizens The post Aftermath of #EndSARS protests:...
View ArticleCentral Bank’s unending interventions of lean consequence
Among other things, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act of 2007, saddles the bank with the overall control and administration of the monetary and financial sector policies of the Federal Government....
View ArticleUnlimited suffering as energy crises, soaring prices of staples unsettle nation
Nothing mirrors the pathetic state that the nation has found itself in, than the plunging index of sustainable development. Apart from becoming glaring and finding expression in the number of Nigerians...
View ArticleWill Eko Bridge reopening take 11 months like Airport Link Bridge?
With a section of Eko Bridge closed to vehicular traffic due to the fire incident at Apongbon Market that affected the facility, the pains that motorists and commuters may experience The post Will Eko...
View Article‘Why we are strengthening health system, family planning’
The Lagos State government in partnership with The Challenge Initiative (TCI) has reiterated her commitment to strengthening the state’s health system, especially in the area of reproductive The post...
View Article13th Bola Tinubu Colloquium to examine new world order, good governance
Organisers of the annual Bola Tinubu Colloquium have announced that this year’s edition will examine emerging global development issues and the importance of good governance The post 13th Bola Tinubu...
View ArticleA decade on, Lagos FoI Act still in the works
Lagos prides itself as the numero uno as far as good governance is concerned. But when it comes to making its books open to public scrutiny (which is a critical ingredient of good governance) The post...
View ArticleJungle Justice: No endgame in sight for social Malady
“Saved by the bell,” best describes how Williams Tadule, a dispatch rider escaped untimely death in the hands of a Lagos mob over allegations of child theft. The post Jungle Justice: No endgame in...
View ArticleAPC Convention blues and concerns for 2023 polls
There were many things that can be described as oddities in the recent national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which held at Eagle Square, Abuja. The post APC Convention...
View ArticleResidents Choke as Kaduna’s season of gnashing of teeth persists
Until recently, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government never admitted that an inch of the Nigerian territory was under the control of the terrorists, even when the outlaws strolled into...
View ArticleAt Ighodalo’s birthday, Obasanjo, Abayomi differ on 1999 Constitution
Last week, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, the Pastor-in-Charge, Trinity House and Chancellor of Wellspring University, Edo State, clocked 61 years of age. To mark the birthday at Victoria Island, Lagos, some...
View ArticleVerraki: Driving Growth Of Businesses Across Africa With Technology
Four years ago, Verraki did not exist let alone ring a bell among corporate industry players. But today, three years after it was established, Verraki, a business solution company for Africa, is fast...
View Article‘Nigeria is old enough to develop its own leadership system’
Toye Sobande is the author of The Leadership Myth: Why Leadership Development Principles Do Not Work in Sub-Saharan Africa. The post ‘Nigeria is old enough to develop its own leadership system’...
View ArticleGovernment dilly-dallies as oil theft flourishes
The unprecedented rate of oil theft recorded in recent times in the country, and the harrowing effect that it has had on government revenue and accretion to reserves is perhaps The post Government...
View ArticleIku Baba Yeye … Ex-boxer, monarch, critic, lover of women
Perhaps the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, knew that the end was nigh for him. This premonition of death, he externalised, a little above two weeks ago The post Iku Baba Yeye … Ex-boxer,...
View ArticleNigerian University Games 2022 ... A postscript
After a number of challenges that threatened to spoil the party, the 26th edition of the bi-annual Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA) Games, hosted by the University The post Nigerian...
View ArticlePotable water still luxury 23 years after return of democracy
On Thursday, December 14, 2022, the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Husseini Adamu, while presenting a memo to members of the National Economic Council (NEC), The post Potable water still luxury...
View ArticleBaba Kekere: Adeyemi III most outstanding Alaafin I’ve worked with
Mr. Morenikeji Lasisi, better known as Baba Kekere, is the longest-serving aide in the Alaafin of Oyo’s palace. Lasisi, who arrived at the Alaafin’s palace as a teenager, ran errands for Oba Ladigbolu,...
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