Browsing Category
Borderless
Should Nigerian government in good conscience collect taxes?
MORE than any previous government, the current government has harped on the need for Nigerians to pay tax. The government’s insistence on collecting tax from the people is a consequence of the challenge it faces with the usual source of…
The political-economy of Boko Haram war
While speaking recently at a programme organised by the Nigerian Army in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Buratai, blamed the country’s elongated war with insurgents in the North-East on the poor commitment of…
The real problem with Buhari presidency
PROFESSOR Wole Soyinka, last week, while playing host to some secondary students, as part of the activities lined up for his 85th birthday programme, said that President Muhammadu Buhari could not do much in proffering solutions to the…
The war Buhari must win
NOTHING points to the seeming failure of our country more than the calamity that befalls young Nigerians trying to avoid the grim situation in the country by travelling to other countries without appropriate papers. There are so many…
RUGA and citizens’ role in birthing change
The decision of the Federal Government to suspend the RUGA settlement scheme is a clear testimony that when the people stridently speak against not well-thought-out government policies, the government is left with no other choice but to eat…
Restructuring: Nigeria’s opportunity to change her narrative
BEFORE the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on the country, Nigeria operated as a true federal state. The regions were strong and took full responsibility for…
The continued search for oil in the North
The outgoing Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, last week reiterated the plan of the corporation to resume crude oil search in the Chad Basin if it could secure clearance from…
Giving teeth to Buhari’s poverty eradication plan
THE 10-year plan to lift at least 100 million Nigerians out of poverty announced by President Muhammadu Buhari last Wednesday, in his address to the nation on Democracy Day, is quite commendable, being the first time the country would…
Nigerians wake up; God is not your government
In the most un-presidential response to a national challenge, President Muhammadu Buhari, while visiting Plateau State in June 2018, to commiserate with the government and people of the state over the dastardly killing of more than 150…
Rethinking education in Nigeria
A picture that went viral recently drives home the point that the nation’s education system has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The picture is that of some public secondary school students who, as a result of inadequate provision…