Editorial

There is no gainsaying the fact that the much-flaunted Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) has failed in meeting its main objectives. Conceived as a palliative mechanism of sorts, President Muhammadu Buhari had, over a year ago, approved the employment...

The success story that eluded the highly celebrated Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement (BCSA) between Nigeria and China, executed over three years ago, is a national embarrassment. It underscores the widely-held view that our policies are not often well thought...

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)’s recent ranking of women in parliaments, which scored Nigeria 179 out of 187 countries worldwide, has once again drawn attention to the issue of active involvement of women in the political process and the patent...

The National Assembly recently, as part of its efforts to amend the Electoral Act and enhance the smooth running of elections in Nigeria, amended a clause in the Act which gave political parties the option of direct and indirect...

The recent collapse of a 21-storey building under construction at Ikoyi, Lagos, is a huge tragedy and a sad commentary on our national life. Over 30 persons were confirmed dead and many injured in the ghastly incident that trapped...

Insecurity across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria is on the ascendancy. Deadly attacks on innocent people by local bandits and blood-thirsty terrorists have become a daily affair. Hardly a day passes without reports of killings by these criminals....

For more than four years the security agencies were unable to get a handle on the murderous activities of armed bandits who have been on the rampage across the North-West and North-Central geopolitical zones, killing, raping, kidnapping for ransom,...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo stirred up a hornet’s nest recently with his public comment on the rapid fall of the naira, which impacts on the unstable, high exchange rate that is ravaging the economy. Speaking during the midterm retreat of...

October 10, (THEWILL) - The outcry by members of the ruling All Progressives Congress nationwide against the admission of defectors to the party should serve as a hard lesson to its leadership. For a party that commendably gained power barely...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, aptly captured the prevailing public mood in a security alert he issued on Friday, September 26, 2021 in Abuja, preparatory to the celebration of the country’s 61st independence anniversary. The Minister,...