Editorial

Razed INEC facilities: Bad omen for 2023

Two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were set ablaze in Ogun and Osun States by suspected hoodlums. The Commission had earlier summoned a security meeting over reported attacks on rallies and campaigns of political parties. The arsonists…

Insecurity: Threat to 2023 polls

The raging insecurity threat on all fronts of the country leave one to wonder if the forthcoming election would hold.  In 2015, the worse that happened was the postponement of the general elections by weeks. Today, the tempo of attacks…

Thumbs up for AMCON recovery strides

The Inter-agency committee set up on the recovery of debts owed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria  (AMCON) between 2020 to 2021 fiscal year has recovered a whopping sum of N307 billion and should be supported by Nigerians home and…

Half-salaries: ASUU strike, not again

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has asked for the cooperation of Nigerians as it “continues to pursue positive resolution of this avoidable crisis within the ambit of legality without compromising the interests and welfare of Nigerian intellectuals.” The…

Insecurity: Stop cultists in Southern states

It is a common knowledge that insecurity in Nigeria has remained unabated. Banditry, Boko Haram, Kidnapping in the North and Cultism, amongst other raging incidents of moral decade are the focus in the Southern States. Although both items of insecurity…

The Lagos/Ibadan expressway kidnap

The last week Friday abduction and killing of travellers along the ever busy Lagos/Ibadan expressway around Sat Guru Maharaji about two kilometres away to the Old Toll Gate, Ibadan remains another sad commentary on our ever deteriorating security in and…

2023: Why campaigns should be issue based

As political campaigns ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections get to the crescendo, rhetorics targeted  at attacking persons, ethnic/tribe/ religious cards against issue-based should be discouraged by all Nigeria voters. Putting things into perspective, by “issue-based” campaigns, it implies that…