Concerns taint Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

PUNCH Editorial Under the radar for a lengthy period after its conception, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is finally taking off under a storm of controversy. A 700-kilometre turnpike infrastructure, the project has attracted commendation and condemnation in equal measures since the Bola Tinubu administration approved it in February. For a country with a legacy of…

April 19, 20240Comments

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Treasury looting and questions over Tinubu’s anti-graft drive

Premium Times Editorial, April 1, 2024 Every financial audit report of units of the federal government unfolds an overwhelming corpus of the reckless abuse of the public treasury that evokes benumbing feelings and the question of whether anyone is in charge of the country’s affairs. The latest revulsion is encapsulated in the Auditor-General of the…

April 1, 20240Comments

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Subsidising religious pilgrimage, irresponsible

By Punch Editorial Board Amidst the escalating cost-of-living crisis that has made basic food items unaffordable to millions of Nigerians, it is economic irresponsibility for lawmakers to demand that the Nigerian government spend state funds to subsidise religious pilgrimages. With the naira depreciating daily and is near the N2,000 per $1 point, the national debt stock…

February 26, 20240Comments

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Time to revamp Nigeria’s criminal justice system – Part 2

By The Guardian Editorial Board There are currently many other pending cases including that of seven young men who were arrested by the police and charged with conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms at the Magistrate Court Yaba. Narrating their ordeal, the young men said they were picked up from various places on Victoria Island…

January 29, 20240Comments

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Remuneration of Judges

By Editorial Board Recently, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to evolve ways to improve remuneration of judges. The Chairman of RMAFC, Muhammed Shehu, had earlier announced that the salaries of elected politicians, judicial and public officers would be increased by 114 per cent. Although President Tinubu supports…

January 9, 20240Comments

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2024: Reset Nigeria and avert the storm

By Punch Editorial Board AS year 2024 gets underway, not even the staunchest optimists and the predatory political class can pretend any longer that all is well with the world’s largest agglomeration of Black people. In all sectors of national life–governance, the economy, security, infrastructure, social services, and national cohesion–confusion, decay and misery are prevalent…

January 4, 20240Comments

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The judiciary and Justice Dattijo Muhammad’s concern

By The Guardian Editorial Board The hornet’s nest stirred recently by retired Supreme Court Justice Dattijo Muhammad is yet another wake-up call on the Federal Government and the judiciary as an institution to address lingering perception of irregularities and lack of steadfastness surrounding the judicial system. The point is that until efforts are made to…

November 27, 20230Comments

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Many Nigerians are resorting to suicide

Editorial Reports of suicide are featuring with dreadful frequency across the country, adding to the prevailing general misery. Many Nigerians were heartbroken when the Edo State Police Command confirmed the death by suicide of Toluige Olokoobi, who became a social media sensation via a video where her son whom she was reprimanding, asked her…

November 20, 20230Comments

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Bello Matawalle: From auto mechanic to Zamfara Governor!

News.Band Editorial This author once overheard two young fellows discussing the state of affairs in the country with the possibility of “japa” for greener pastures, either in Europe or America. One of the two said that he will never consider “japa” because Nigeria is a land of opportunities. According to him, “The only place to…

August 10, 20230Comments

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Centus Nweze: Metaphor for Nigerian judiciary, as PEPT decides on Tinubu’s fate

Whirlwindnews Editorial Chima Centus Nweze, until his death, occurred on Sunday, July 30, but formally went viral on Tuesday, August 2, 2023, was Justice of the Supreme Court (JSC) of Nigeria. He was appointed to the apex court, the highest career progression of judicial officers in Nigeria, by former President Goodluck Jonathan, in 2014, from…

August 3, 20230Comments

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