Public Affairs

As the Senate begins the screen­ing of 21 ministerial nominees to­morrow, we strongly support its decision that the nominees, who...

Not ‘noise makers’, but policy geeks to give bureaucrats direction The nation heaved a sigh of relief when President Muhammadu...

On Monday, September 28 at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, the United States of...

Fifteen years after the United Nations Millennium Declaration that committed an unprecedented number of nations to some select, time-bound development...

ISLAMIST terrorism is far from being tamed in Nigeria. Last Friday, just a day after the 55th Independence Day anniversary...

Anxiety over the economy has not abated even as both the Presidency and the Senate appear to be ready to...

WE strongly support Organised Labour in its campaign against the sale of the nation’s 104 Federal Government Colleges to private...

The uncertainty over the delayed local elections in Lagos State typifies the unrepresentative state of local government administration in Nigeria....

Monday, 5th October, 2015 was this year’s anniversary of World Teachers’ Day (WTD), a day specially reserved to honour the...

Against the background of the continued abuse by governors of the Joint State and Local Government Accounts (JAC), there are...

No platform is more auspicious than the General Assembly of the United Nations to use in drawing some global leaders'...

assumed an epidemic dimension. A criminal activity that started some years ago as a tool of agitation in the Niger...

•BVN should be open-ended, but it is imperative that every account holder is captured by the present window With less...

Nigeria's recent rating as “third to the last” on the 2015 global ranking of “Ease of paying taxes” is a...