Public Affairs

The  planned  increase  of the  Value Added  Tax (VAT)  on products, including food items  from  five per cent to 10...

Politicians on the other hand should not drag religious leaders into the political fray, nor polarize Nigerians along religious divides...

Why are Nigerians committing suicide? It is time to find out and arrest the trend According to some recent statistics...

We need to step up our quest to become less dependent on oil revenue…the government must not pay lip service...

The admonition the other day by the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mahmud Mohammed, against the practice of lawyers using...

Repeated successes recorded by Cameroonian forces in their confrontations with the fiendish Boko Haram group remain an abiding testimony to...

There are great reasons for concerns about Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, and any doubtful credentials in his forms for the 2015...

News that the Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the European Union (EU) to ensure that...

The injection of embarrassingly huge amount of money into government projects, without corresponding positive results to show, has been one...

That Nigeria’s education sector is heading for the nadir is not as scary as the fact that all hope of remediation...

The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced new electricity tariffs last week. The NERC Chairman, Dr. Sam Amadi, disclosed the...

No fewer than 100,000 elephants are believed to have been killed by poachers within the continent in the last three...

In the absence of a culture of whistleblowing in public or private sectors of the economy, the N50 million Whistleblower...

DESPITE years of reforms, banks’ lending in Nigeria is still heavily skewed towards transactions at the expense of production. A...