Editorial
Managing insecurity associated with agency banking
AGENCY Banking – using Point of Sale, PoS, terminals introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to facilitate the cashless economy policy – has become a source of violent
The era of rule by force of arms is over
THE avalanche of global outrage, threat of sanctions and condemnations that have trailed the Myanmar military coup are clear signals to military adventurists all over the world who seek to
Nigeria’s woeful water situation
YESTERDAY, March 22, 2021, was World Water Day, a universal annual celebration created to focus attention on the importance of one of the most precious resources on earth. Water makes
Preventing avoidable death in Nigeria
ON January 19, 2021, around 8.15 am on the Presidential Boulevard Road near Guarantee Trust Bank opposite Lawson Group School, Kuto, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, a tanker transporting petrol
A radio station for the Police
THE basic attributes of governance in Nigeria include lack of initiative and inability to implement programmes or maintain existing facilities. Governance lacks innovativeness and commitment to meet set objectives in
Leveraging the emerging virtual global citizenship
WITH the Internet and other communication technologies, it is possible now for people to live in any country of their choice without travelling there. The United Arab Emirates, UAE, is
Don’t scrap UBE counterpart funding
LEFT to the governors of the 36 states, the counterpart funding arrangement for drawdown of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, fund should be scrapped. This much was evident in
Who’ll implement the National Quality Policy?
ON February 1, 2021 the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, announced with flourish the Federal Government’s approval of the National Quality Policy, NQP, which is primarily meant
Insecurity: Time is running out for the nation
IT is suicidal to pretend about it: Nigeria is on fire over insecurity. Few years ago, we published an editorial warning Nigerians, especially those who live in the South, that
Man shall not live by meat alone
THERE is a long list of circumstances in the history of our world in which good have proceeded from bad situations; the herders-farmers conflict in Nigeria could turn out to
