Editorials

With the plan to re-introduce tolling as a test run on the Abuja-Makurdi highway, the Federal Government has come to terms with one important reality of the country’s public life …

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu signed the N54.99 trillion 2025 budget penultimate Friday, calling it a “Budget of Restoration” to secure Nigeria’s future and rebuild prosperity. But for many Nigerians, the past …

IT is extremely worrisome that some harebrained characters at the National Assembly have become accustomed to scandals and profligate lifestyles. Nothing seems to bother the degenerate lawmakers except when their …

On Monday, February 24, the world sat with bated breath to get the latest news on Pope Francis, who was in critical condition battling double pneumonia. The 88-year-old Catholic Pontiff …

The death of a good man, a statesman and a sage from the Niger Delta region, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, on Monday, February 17, 2025, marks the end of an …

JUST as this year’s Islamic holy month of Ramadan got underway on March 1, distressing news broke that 25 people were arrested in Kano by the Hisbah board for eating …

NO matter how often Nigerian politicians parrot the word “democracy”, only a few are true democrats. Monday’s melodrama at the Lagos State House of Assembly proves this. That day, Mojisola …

News that the new security outfit known as Agunechemba has uncovered 32 graves in a hotel in insecurity-ravaged Anambra State might have raised the hope that the escalating criminal activities in the …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has reopened the galling debate on elections. Essentially, he lamented Nigeria’s inability to conduct credible polls. As president, he superintended two general elections, in 2011 and …

A report that a woman in Nigeria becomes a victim of sexual violence or is killed every 10 minutes is nothing but alarming and disgraceful. This staggering statistic was credited …