Day: March 12, 2023

Every progressive society is governed by known laws and rules. Society develops through the rule of law and its due process and the eradication of arbitrary and autocratic decision-making. The recent redesign of the national currency, the naira, the emerging policy and legal issues, the Supreme Court decision and the hardship that has attended the

NIGERIA’S abysmal contribution to global research, particularly in tropical diseases and medicine, was brought recently into focus by stakeholders at a forum, where they bemoaned the country’s failings despite its ample supply of manpower. Aggregating the concerns of experts, a professor at Rutgers University, United States, Olabode Ibironke, noted that the prevalence of some tropical

The introduction of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines into Nigeria’s electoral process has to a large extent reduced rigging and produced results, which shocked legacy parties, ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS writes When the idea of introducing the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System into the electoral process was first mooted by the National Chairman of the Independent National

It is perhaps comforting to know that Nigerians by and large get along with the electoral process. However, governments need to pay some attention to the wishes of the citizens. Major social disturbances such as protests shift public revenues and expenditures to new and unimagined levels. As a precursor, let me reiterate that I do

The major thought of every powerless Nigerian is how to survive without cash in the next minutes or next second because of government ad hoc monetary policy on currency redesign. According to the Act that sets up the Central Bank of Nigeria, the only institution that can print the domestic currency is the CBN. Those

Oreoluwa Aina, a National Youth Service Corps member, was one of those who died on Thursday when a Lagos State Government staff bus collided with a train in the PWD area of the state. In this interview with DAYO OYEWO, her father, Femi Aina, speaks on her daughter’s plans after the service year How did

  The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, is set to today, in  Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, United States. Many Nigerians look up to the emergence of Nigerian singer, Temilade Oyeniyi, in the nomination list. It will be recalled that the singer had won a Grammy award on February 5. Following a song

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that political parties cannot serve as a watchdog to the electoral umpire’s activities. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who said this on Sunday night, explained that the commission had been created to serve as a regulator for political parties

  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has congratulated Xi Jinping on his re-election for a third five-year term as President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Republic of China. This is contained in a statement by the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja. Buhari said under

The Kano State Executive Council has given approval for the Kano State Anthem Bill 2023 and its transmission to the State House of Assembly for passage into law. The KSEC has also approved the State Rural Access Roads Establishment Bill 2022 and the State Roads Funds 2022 Bill. The State Commissioner for Information and Internal