Tag: P.M.NEWS editorial
A Nation In Pains And Adrift
Nigerians are in pains. Their anguish is too much to bear. For weeks, they had no fuel to power their…
Let The Best Men Get The Job
Nigerians have been waiting anxiously to know how the All Progressives Congress, APC, would handle the issue of picking the principal…
Ending Fuel Scarcity
For over three weeks now, Nigerians have had to grapple with another episode of fuel scarcity which has become a…
The Return Of Boko Haram
After what seemed like a respite following the onslaught on Boko Haram by Nigerian security forces and their counterparts from…
Arase Must Clean The Augean Stable
With the Police Council finally confirming Mr. Solomon Arase as the substantive Inspector General of Police of Nigeria, we want…
The Alarming Electronic Fraud In Banks
Latest data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that the banking sector lost over N3.04 billion in…
An Economy In Tatters
Contrary to the claims by the outgoing Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that…
The Criminal Silence Over Kidnapped Victims
The rescue of over 900 women and girls from Boko Haram camps in Sambisa forest has brought to the fore…
Enforce Ban On Checkpoints
The recent order by Nigeria’s Acting Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, disbanding all police checkpoints across the country because they…
The SURE-P, FERMA Job Scam
Hundreds of recruited officers of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme, SURE-P and Federal Task Force, FERMA on Monday staged…
The Need To Sanitise NNPC, Oil Sector
Every Nigerian knows how impossible it would be for anyone to try to paint a positive picture of the country’s…
Jostling For Political Appointments
As various political gladiators from the six geopolitical zones and states across the country jostle for national appointments, it is…
Wanted: A New Lease For Education
There is so much to be done by the incoming administration to be inaugurated on 29 May, 2015. In every…
The Task Before Ambode
On 29 May, 2015, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode will be officially sworn in as the 14th governor of Lagos State, having…
Keshi’s Endless Contract Saga
Since Nigeria’s Super Eagles failed to secure a ticket to play at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial…
The Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa
The extra-judicial killings in South Africa, also known as xenophobic attacks, are a sad commentary on the failure of leaders…
A Note Of Caution To APC
Come 29 May 29, 2015, the president-elect General Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in as the next president of Africa’s most…
Chibok Girls: The Task Before Buhari
It’s over one year since the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, abducted 219 Chibok schoolgirls from a secondary school in the…
Need For A New, Virile Opposition Party
With the sudden transformation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from an opposition party to the ruling party come 29…
Whipping Up Ethnic Hatred
They are at it again. Those who promote ethnic hatred while campaigning for votes have swung into action barely a…
An Agenda For The President-Elect
General Muhammed Buhari will, on 29 May, be sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria having been…
Let There Be Reconciliation
As the election of General Muhammadu Buhari as president of Nigeria ushers in a new era of governance on 29…
Nigerians’ Commendable Resilience
For the first time since 1999 when Nigeria, the most populous black country in the world, began its current democratic…
The Avoidable Electoral Charade In Rivers State
The electoral charade that took place in some wards in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Saturday during the…
Vote Wisely On Saturday
It is less than 48 hours to the crucial Presidential and National Assembly elections. The polls scheduled to hold on…
The Reduction In Electricity Tariff
A few weeks ago, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, announced a 50 percent reduction in…
Security Agencies And The Presidential Election
The success or failure of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections will largely depend on the ability of security agencies…
Between Jega And Police IG
As Nigerians prepare to perform their civic duty by casting their ballot for their preferred presidential and National Assembly candidates…
The Fuss About Presidential Debate
Before the general elections were shifted from 14 February to 28 March and 11 April, there was so much fuss…