KAI warns Lagosians against attacks, announces tougher enforcement
The Corps Marshal of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), also known as Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), Major General Olaniyi Cole (rtd), has warned Lagosians that officials of the agency…
NNPC and unremitted billions of dollars
By Jide Oyewusi Sir: If there is a company all Nigerians must focus all their attention on and demand a transparent accountability from if Nigeria is ever going to move…
Daily struggles and systemic failures test the nation’s patience (2)
By Chiwuike Uba Healthcare infrastructure is particularly neglected. Despite pledges under the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 per cent of public expenditure to health, Nigeria’s budget falls far…
Year 2026: Between the Old and the New
By Rasheed Ojikutu As the year 2025 fades with its attendant vicissitudes, the new year peeps into the world like a neonate. It’s cry resonating with hopes and aspirations. Yet,…
Stephen Hawking, AI and the defining questions of our time
By Tunji Olaopa From quite early in life, I picked up the intellectual habit of probing the intellects of great thinkers, and there are a whole tribe of them that…
Gen Z is making politics hopeful again
By Ngaire Woods Grim as the final month of 2025 has been – with headlines dominated by mass shootings, crises, and polarisation – one positive development offers a glimmer of…
Peter Obi initiated into ADC, warns Nigeria is being ‘looted into poverty’
Mr. Peter Obi, former Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, has warned that Nigeria is being “looted into poverty” as he announced his defection to the African Democratic…
Anthony Joshua’s driver discharged from hospital, faces prosecution for alleged reckless driving
The driver of the vehicle in which former boxing heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, lost two of his associates following an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has been discharged from the…
NECA faults ban on alcohol sachet package
By NAN The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has faulted the ban on alcohol sold in sachets and small bottles, warning that the policy could worsen smuggling and lead to…
Tax law: NANS asks FIRS chair’s to resign, plans Jan 14 protest at Villa
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has demanded the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, over what it described as “gross…