WITH the current propensity to arrogate to the military the solution to practically every security challenge facing the country, a former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has done well to warn about the dangers of the growing marginalisation of the police in Nigeria’s internal security matters. His warning is also a timely opportunity to revisit […] …
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Termination, not suspension, of new national carrier
Punch Editorial Board The Federal Executive Council took the right decision when it suspended the new national carrier project indefinitely. It offered no reasons for its action save for “some strategic reasons,” the Minister of State for Transport, Hadi Sirika, volunteered to newsmen. Right from the outset, the Federal Government was wrongheaded as the project […] …
Paying for Nigeria’s wrong choices
A recent statement by a United States government official, blaming Nigeria’s woes on government’s wrong choices and bizarre spending pattern, is unlikely to sit well with the authorities; but the aptness of the remark cannot be faulted. The USAID Country Representative, Stephen Haykin, said that Nigeria’s scarce resources were being lavished on subsidies on petroleum […] …
Parliament: Release Electoral Bill now
DISAGREEMENTS between the National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari, provoked by amendments to the Electoral Act, seem to have ended with the former’s correction of the errors and deletion of controversial provisions noticed in the new bill, for which the President had withheld his assent. But any hope of the bill being assented to quickly […] …
Wizkid Vs Shola Ogudu: Five Lessons You Must Learn To Avoid Baby Mama Drama
Nigerian pop star, Wizkid, became the topic of much controversy earlier this week after Shola Ogudu, the mother of his oldest son, Boluwatife, took to social media to accuse the musician of being a deadbeat dad. Read: These Instagram Posts By Shola Ogudu Basically Just Revealed That Your Fave Is Possibly A Deadbeat Dad Not only did … Continue reading “Wizkid Vs Shola Ogudu: Five Lessons You Must Learn To Avoid Baby Mama Drama”
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New varsities: Reps, bury the idea
THE legislative process of creating nine new tertiary institutions has reached an advanced stage with the conclusion of public hearing on bills seeking to establish them at the House of Representatives last week. The move is predicated on the jaded and blinkered argument that access to university and higher college education should be expanded to […] …
That crackdown on MTN, four banks
Punch Editorial Board Nigerian regulators shook up the corporate environment considerably last week when they slammed a combined N5.87 billion fine on four banks and ordered MTN Nigeria to repatriate $8.1 billion that it improperly transferred abroad. The action has brought to the front burner issues of corporate governance, institutional regulation, corporate rascality, due process […] …
Election rigging: NSA’s warning to security agencies
Punch Editorial Board Security agencies’ ignoble roles in the conduct of elections in the past echoed in Abuja on Wednesday, when the National Security Adviser, Mohammed Monguno, reminded them of the imperative of professionalism and their expected neutrality in the forthcoming 2019 general election. His message was clear and apposite: what happened in the past […] …
More struggles ahead of flat-looking economy
More than three years into the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Nigeria’s economic woes have persisted. The 2018 second-quarter report by the National Bureau of Statistics, released on Monday, brings the dire outlook to the front burner. Officially, the economy emerged from recession in 2017, yet growth slowed again in Q2, in comparison to Q1. From 1.95 […] …
Enough of rhetoric on commercialisation of research findings
Punch Editorial Board In an apparent acknowledgement of the centrality of science and technology to the true greatness of a nation, the Federal Government is seeking ways to encourage scientific innovations in the country. This was the clear message from the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, last week when he pledged his commitment […] …