Tag: P.M.NEWS editorial
The Trauma On Apapa-Oshodi Expressway
It is highly worrisome that the hellish gridlock along Apapa-Oshodi expressway, occasioned by the indiscriminate parking of trucks and tankers,…
Boko Haram: Beyond Recruiting Soldiers
Days after the last media chat in which President Goodluck Jonathan told Nigerians that he had ordered a massive recruitment…
Forgotten Chibok Girls
Seventy-seven days after close to 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Chibok by Boko Haram, and many weeks after the Nigerian…
National Confab And Delegates’ Recalcitrance
Recently, the leadership of the National Conference currently going on in Nigeria decided to take a drastic action against absentee…
Tackling The Threat Of Cyber Crime In Nigeria
A fortnight ago, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, deputy governor, Financial Systems Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria, said 2.4 per cent of…
Checking Corruption And Tardiness In The Judiciary
The victory of Ayo Fayose in the recently concluded election in Ekiti State has again raised the question of his…
Fayemi’s Sportsmanship
In a rare show of sportsmanship, Governor Kayode Fayemi on Sunday congratulated Governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, following his Saturday, 21 June…
Time To End ASUP Strike
Almost one year after the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, went on strike to press home their demands for…
War Against Terror And Information Management
The military of any nation is mostly heard only where actions in favour of such nation is paramount and in…
Ekiti Election: INEC Must Deliver On A Clean Slate
Next Saturday, the people of Ekiti State will go to the polls to elect a governor. Among top candidates jostling…
That Peace May Prevail
As the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, as well as other less influential…
Hike In Tariffs On Imported Vehicles
The increase in the tariffs on imported vehicles has been generating a hot debate among stakeholders. While it has been…
Building On MAMAs 2014 Glory
At the recent fourth edition of MTV Africa Music Awards, MAMAs, held in Durban, South Africa, big names in Nigeria’s…
Menace Of Lagos Truck Drivers
The Lagos Traffic Law was passed in 2012 to regulate the activities of motorists in the state. However, while the…
Military’s Transferred Aggression
The seizure last week of thousands of copies four major Nigerian newspapers by the military at the behest of the…
World Cup: Anxiety Over Keshi’s Eagles
Football loving Nigerians expect much from the 23-man Super Eagles squad Coach Stephen Keshi is taking to Brazil 2014 FIFA…
Mitigating Impact Of Flood
Lagos State is known to be a coastal city where the sea level rises during the rainy season. This, consequently,…
Okonjo-Iweala’s Indictment Of Governors
Last week, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala stunningly indicted the state and…
Aviation: Oduah’s N174 billion Debt
Revelations last week that the Ministry of Aviation, under Stella Oduah, accumulated a hefty debt of about N174 billion within…
Akpabio’s Egregious Bill
An egregious aspect of the Nigerian democracy is currently playing out in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, and at…
Missing Chibok Girls 43 Days After
It’s heart rendering that the teenage girls abducted from Government, Chibok, Borno State, have been away for this long, their…
DAWN Games: Keeping South-West Youth Busy Through Sports
The conception of the South-West Secondary Schools Championship tagged DAWN Games was the brainchild of the south-west Governors’ Forum to…
FG Taskforce’s Invasion Of Lagos Ominous
In the last few days, the pervading peace being enjoyed in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has been threatened by the…
Concerted War Against Terrorism
For the first time since the terrorist group Boko Haram held sway in Nigeria and striking in some of the…
Misguided Merger In Aviation
The plan by the Federal Government to merge the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA…
World Cup: Get Cracking, Keshi
Following the approval of the 30-man provisional World Cup list submitted by Super Eagles’ Coach, Stephen Keshi, to the Technical…
Woeful Funding Of Science And Tech
The Nigerian Supervising Minister of Science and Technology, Omobola Johnson, stunned the National Conference Committee on Science, Technology and Development,…
Need For Regional Cooperation To Defeat Insurgents
In a much publicised move, Nigeria has accepted assistance from the United States, Britain, France, China and Israel in a…
Grandstanding Over War Against Boko Haram
Nigerian public office holders have a fantastic appetite for talk. It’s good for leaders to keep their citizens abreast of…
Why Akin Ambode Is Not An Imposition On Lagosians
By Larry Raj I am amazed about the noise being made about Akin Ambode, a man people are saying Tinubu…