Public Affairs

The authorities should think out-of-the-box and enrol many children in school At a public forum last week, the Academic Staff...

There is not much on ground to justify this vaulted optimism The goal of migrating majority of Nigerians from poverty...

For failing to meet the due process requirements for accessing funds provided for rehabilitating basic schools by most state governments,...

Sad, bad. Local rice producers take their destiny in their hands; plan price cut The cost of 50kg of locally...

Resolving the nomadic herdsmen nuisance comes in many guises, but nearly all the solutions offered so far by the Federal...

A good idea, but are we ready? Ordinarily, the decision of ‘no National Identity Number (NIN), no passport’ by the...

The authorities could do far more for a change At a recent ‘transformational leadership’ workshop organised by the military for...

Eager for a way out of the logjam decelerating Nigeria’s steel industry, bold voices have come out to define the...

.Recapitalization alone can’t make our banks compete globally Barely 15 years after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) pruned the...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is welcome After more than a year of hesitation, there were signals last week...

A seeming gaffe by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, appearing to disparage his own troops has once again...

Almajiri is a socio-religious practice gone seedy. It’s time to fix it The mendicant Almajiri order needs urgent reforms.  Its riveting public...

The recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the hazardous impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in...

The European Union Election Observation Mission on Nigeria’s 2019 general election released its final report recently, with a verdict that...