Tag: editorial
New York Times editorial is inexcusably biased, ignorant – FG
Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefuye, on Tuesday described an editorial published by the New York Times…
A Contrived Fuel Scarcity
Following the hardship Nigerians are subjected to daily, the prevailing fuel scarcity across the country demands that a serious and…
Stem Goitre Scourge Now
The goitre scourge ravaging Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State is a worrisome development that needs concerted efforts to…
Immigration Recruitment Tragedy
Unemployed Nigerian youths are an easy prey for the government to exploit nowadays. They are mostly hopeless and desperate; but…
Observe Decorum In Sacking Public Office Holders
The culture of sacking office holders, sometimes at the flimsiest of provocations has been with us shortly after independence. This…
Recall Youth Corps Members Posted To War-Torn States
Days ago, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, shocked Nigerians by posting of 820 graduates to war-torn Borno State to…
Stop Dehumanising Women
The International Women’s Day was celebrated worldwide on 8 March, a day the United Nations set aside to draw attention…
Implementation Of Anti-Smoking Law Is Key
The recent signing into law a bill that prohibits smoking in public places by Governor Fashola of Lagos State has…
Boko Haram: The Cameroon Connection
It has now dawned on President Paul Biya of the Republic of Cameroon and his government that the Boko Haram…
The Return Of Long Fuel Queues
One promise President Goodluck Jonathan made to Nigerians last year during his independence day anniversary speech was the total eradication…
One Massacre Too Many
The invasion of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, by Boko Haram terrorists which left 43 students dead on…
Rapists On The Loose
The increasing number of rape cases recorded daily across Nigeria has reached a point where the average Nigerian, especially the…
The Illegality Of Sanusi’s Suspension
The hasty suspension of Lamido Sanusi as governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, and the controversies it elicited have attracted…
Tardy Preparations For 2014 C/Wealth Games
When Team Nigeria contingent returned with 11 gold medals from the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games, just as the usual practice,…
Editorial: Kerosene Subsidy Racketeering Must Stop
The recent investigative hearing on the supply, subsidy and distribution of kerosene in the country, organised by the House of…
Time To Halt Mudslinging In The National Assembly
In the last couple of weeks, defections and counter-defections in the National Assembly have hogged the news headlines non-stop. The…
A House Divided Against Itself
The apparent discordant positions held by leaders of the Yoruba nationality on the impending National Conference, is worrisome. These same…
No To Foreign Technical Assistant For Stephen Keshi
Most Nigerians were shocked when it became apparent that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has been nusring the desire to…
Mbu’s Landmine And The New Rivers Police Boss
The recent redeployment of highly controversial Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, by the Police Service Commission to the…
Sanusi’s Outcry Over Missing Oil Revenue
The claim by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,…
ASUU And FG’s Insincerity
On 3 December, 2013, while the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was biting hard on students…
Rein In Aliens Who Brutalise Nigerians
The level of violence meted out by expatriate business people in Nigeria to their staff has become worrisome and needs…
2014 Budget: Matters Arising
In December last year, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, on behalf of…
Travails Of Egan/Igando Housing Scheme Subscribers
On Monday Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola inaugurated the Lagos State Housing Ownership Mortgage Scheme, HOMS, at the Banquet Hall of…
Concession Of National Stadium
When President Goodluck Jonathan approved the concession of the National Stadium in Lagos last month, many sports stakeholders reacted differently. While…
Redeem LASU’s Glory
The Lagos State University, the only university that belongs to the state described as the Centre of Excellence, requires a…
A Year To The Presidential Election
A year and four days to the presidential election, Nigerians still do not know who are the contenders or what…
Senate And The Doctrine Of Take A Bow And Go
Nigeria’s National Assembly will face a litmus test when it begins to screen the ministerial nominees President Goodluck Jonathan has…
Saving The Real Sector
As the tenure of the current Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will soon end, and possi…
Tukur’s Forced Resignation And PDP’s Decline
Last Wednesday’s forced resignation of Bamanga Tukur, the seventh Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 15 years, is…