The suspended Labour strike in Nigeria may have come and gone, but not without ripples, positive or negative. Though Nigerians, especially workers had braced up to a marathon industrial action with the Federal Government, but the action was short-lived. The sudden…
Nigeria’s food crisis is gunpowder awaiting a spark to create national upheaval, threatening sovereignty. Prices are at an all time high, food inflation nicking 40.5 percent. The previous administration, misled by arsinine economic ideologies, turned Nigeria into a closed system…
The clamouring for independence of the financial freedom of the third tiers of government should be embraced by state Governors and all stakeholders to decentralise the economy and bring development to people at the grassroots. The Federal Government recently filed…
President Bola Tinubu’s administration have made a significant stride in transforming Nigeria’s education sector through the Students Loan Scheme. While this initiative has the potential to bridge the financial gap for many deserving students, it is important to consider the…
As the Tinubu administration marks its one-year anniversary, the lingering dispute between the federal government and the labour movement over a minimum wage or living wage persists. The government’s hasty implementation of fuel subsidy removal and currency floatation, though plausible,…
Nigeria as a country has been relying heavily on foreign goods imported from other nations of the world to survive. In fact, since the country gained independence from the colonial masters, it has been consuming products from other climes. It…
In the heat of untold hardship on Nigerians, what’s the significance of a National Anthem? On Thursday, a bill proposing that Nigeria revert to its old national anthem, ‘Nigeria, We Hail Thee,’ passed its third reading at the House of…
The recent spate of attacks and kidnappings across the country, particularly in the South-West, has once again brought to the fore the precarious state of security in Nigeria. The gruesome account of Nurudeen Olaitan Salami, a survivor of a deadly…
The recent suggestion by the Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Ibrahim, to restructure the NYSC into a revenue-generating agency, while well-intentioned, may not be the most effective solution. Instead, we argue that a radical review of the scheme is necessary…
It is no longer news that Nigeria and indeed Nigerians have waited patiently and endlessly for the commencement of production of the four refineries in the country, especially Port Harcourt Refinery, but lo and behold, it has been continuous shifting…
