Editorial

RECENTLY at a meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the security chiefs, state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, the issue of State Police came up as …

THE security situation in the country seems to be getting worse by the day and it looks as if it is intractable. While the leaders keep saying the government is …

EVENTS of the past few months revealing flagrant abuse of financial regulations and misapplication of public funds in some federal agencies give a glimpse of how public funds are being …

New Year 2024 is already here with us, and for Nigerians who have “crossed over,” the realities that shaped the past year, 2023, are likely to be put behind as …

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 …