Category: Editorial
Stemming the menace of sea piracy in Nigerian waters
The time has perhaps come when Nigeria should begin to take more drastic measures to stem the tide of sea piracy, which has assumed an alarming dimension in recent...
2019 Elections: Entrenching democratic culture that endures
On Saturday, Nigerians will be going to the polls again to elect leaders who will steer the ship of the Nigerian state for another four years in line with the provisions...
The future of Nigeria’s federal roads
The myth surrounding the development of Nigeria’s federal roads was last week broken with the Executive Order 007 of 2019. The Order titled Road Infrastructure...
Illegal Migration: Nigeria’s Albatross
For some years now, the Nigerian youth has regrettably been leaving the country in droves, in search of greener pastures in other parts of the world. Their usual...
Nigeria’s charity should begin at home
Recently, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, was reported to have announced that the Federal Government had approved $500,000, 350 electoral kits and...
Somali region once riddled with pirates sees peaceful power transfer
By Abdiqani Hassan and Omar Mohammed A region of war-ravaged Somalia elected a new president on Tuesday, a peaceful transfer of power in a part of the country notorious...
Nigeria should take its place in intra-African trade
Africa’s first organized trade fair ended recently in Cairo, Egypt with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) calling for implementation of initiatives that...
Nigeria’s bloated recurrent expenditure
There is a proven correlation between declining economic growth and sluggish investment in Africa, research from the World Bank has shown. In an Africa Pulse...
Nigeria’s policy summersault and foreign direct investment
Last month, precisely on November 6, 2018, the United States Consul-General in Lagos, Mr. F. John Bray, was reported to have said $1.3 billion American businesses in...
State-sponsored rice smuggling
Three Cameroonians were last week arrested with 16 Nigerian accomplices, trying to smuggle in 834 bags of parboiled rice worth N13 million in Calabar, Cross Rivers...
Import documents falsification and the Nigerian economy
Director-General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma recently warned importers of goods and licensed Customs agents to desist from falsifying...
When Nigeria’s N9.3bn no longer secures its oil pipelines
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recently announced an alarming increase in the spate of pipeline vandalism across the country. The state oil company...