Editorial

American leading commercial plane manufacturer, Boeing, has hinted of a possible return of embattled Boeing 737 Max plane model to flight services before the year ends. Boeing’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dennis Muilenburg, said they are conducting simulated flights with air-safety regulators this week, and plans to fly the 737 …

Observers have posited that three critical issues must have been responsible for the current travails of APC’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, which date back to when it became evident that he was the preferred candidate of the party’s national leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu. Before the party’s national congress held …

THE Independent National Electoral Commission has reminded political parties and aspirants for various elective offices to always adhere to guidelines prescribed by law in conducting primaries for the selection of candidates for elections. High-level indifference to this critical attribute of party democracy in the last general election bequeathed 806 pre-election …

Kano State House of Assembly has passed a bill granting pension to its Speaker and the deputy for life. It is the height of insensitivity that lawmakers, as public representatives, will initiate such undeserved reward. This self-centred piece of legislation should, therefore, be consigned to the rubbish bin by Governor …

With a welter of new regulations, which are set for implementation any minute now, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has reopened the debate about the true essence of local government administration in the country. In line with this, the NFIU has introduced fresh guidelines, which it claims are targeted at …

Persistent as ever, Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, is pressing ahead with an ambitious national railway construction programme that comes with a hefty $45 billion price tag. This is fine, since Nigeria’s current 3,500 kilometres of track is grossly inadequate, leaves the economy hobbled and traps the country in under-development. But …

Speciously, the House of Representatives has thrown out a bill to regulate overseas medical treatment for public officials. The bill, with the objective of barring top officials from medical tourism at public expense so that government can revive the country’s decadent health system, was killed by lawmakers at a plenary …

Whatever is the motive of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation concerning reported relocation of its marketing subsidiary, Nigeria Gas Marketing Company Limited (NGMC), consideration must be given to peace in the Niger Delta area and indeed the country that is already facing terrorism and other security challenges. The NNPC and …

Going by all the emerging evidence of the brazen, defiant criminality in its many forms ravaging this country now, the rule of law is failing and the power of constituted authority to fulfill its very purpose is quite embarrassing. There is a sense in which we can claim that this …

It is curious and even provocative that the authorities and the people of Nigeria have not been considering groundswell of informed commentaries that Nigeria needs better, not more universities at this time that disruptive technologies daily shape economic development through innovation – triggered by research. And so, the National Universities …