Editorial

Collaboration, key to end fuel scarcity

For almost four months on now, Nigerians have continued to groan amidst unending queues for Premium Motor Spirit (petrol, as popularly known) at filling stations. The long queues started appearing at the filling stations across the country in September, forcing…

NCC’s N569bn 2023 budget and telecoms growth

On Tuesday, the Senate approved N559,080,711,000 as the fiscal budget for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to drive continuous growth in the telecommunications industry. There are several examples of this telecoms growth in Africa. In South Africa, the wireless telecommunication…

Purchase of PVC by Politicians? 

Just less than 90 Days to the 2023 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised the alarm over  desperate politicians wanting to win by all cost through sharp practices of  buying the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC)from the…

That CBN cash withdrawal limit

The Central Bank of Nigeria last week Tuesday put a limit on cash withdrawal made by individuals and organisations with effect from January 9, 2023. In a memo signed by the Director of Banking Supervision, Haruna Mustafa, the apex bank…

Time to embrace CBN’s naira redesign policy

There have been ripple of reactions following the latest Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revised policy on cash withdrawal. CBN’s revised guidelines on the effective implementation of the naira redesign policy states that  from 9th January 2022,  Automated Teller Machines,…

On LG autonomy we stand!

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday accused state governors of thwarting development in the country by tinkering with local governments’ allocations. According to the widely reported news, President Buhari accused the state governors of forcing the helpless local government chairmen to…

Mother tongue policy in primary education

The Federal Government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes the mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council…