Editorial

THERE has been heightened anxiety over the delay by President Muhammadu Buhari in signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law. This is more so as the period allowed …

APART from the routine news of criminal gangs wrecking havoc across the land and a surfeit of building collapse, another regular fare on news bulletins about Nigeria is explosion involving …

THREE weeks to the just concluded Anambra State governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state predicted that the exercise, which was already generating so much tension …

THE cost of transacting business in Nigerian ports is currently one of the highest in the world. This is no longer news, but it remains a fact that the country’s …

ON Thursday October 21, 2021, Nigerians woke up to another dimension to the troubling security situation in the country, as there were reports that a portion of the busy Abuja–Kaduna rail …

SATURDAY, November 6, 2021 has been slated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Anambra State governorship election. The state is one of those whose …

IN a sudden reversal, the Senate last week changed the election bill to allow INEC the power to utilise electronic transmission of vote tallies directly from polling units.  In addition, …

NIGERIA celebrated its 61 years of nationhood last Friday with cheers and jeers from different quarters. While some admitted that some progress has been made over the years in spite …

THERE was a time in Nigeria when tax revenue was not an issue. Petro-dollars from oil sales had blinded the operators of government to other streams of income into the …

NIGERIA’S currency, the naira, has been on a continuous downward slide for some time now causing serious panic and fuelling speculations that the country’s economy is bound for the rocks. …