TAKING THE HUNGER ALERT SERIOUSLY
The authorities must do more to prevent mass starvation More than 17 million people across nine conflict-hit states in northern Nigeria face severe hunger, according to the United Nations World
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NFF: Need for a new beginning
Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]
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THE REAL COST OF GAS FLARING
The proposal to end wasteful and ruinous gas flaring is welcome The disclosure by the German Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Annett Günther, that Nigeria lost an estimated $1.5 billion
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EGG HARVESTING AND DESPERATE WOMEN
Health authorities should do more to contain the problem For a long time, there have been reports that some fertility clinics in the country are harvesting eggs of young girls
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PROPOSED NYSC REFORM AND MATTERS ARISING
Critical stakeholders should be carried along The recent announcement by the federal government of far-reaching reforms for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deserves a serious interrogation. Anchored on the
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OF POPULATION, HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS
Nigeria needs a serious conversation on population control With the theme, ‘Realising the hopes and aspirations of young people for their futures,’ the 2026 World Population Day will be marked
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Probing the Safe Schools Initiative
The Senate’s planned probe of the Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) has arisen from a bitter national irony: a programme meant to protect children has become a symbol of waste and recurring insecurity. Fresh outrage over school kidnappings has pushed lawmakers to demand answers on how about N144 billion was spent with so little visible protection […]
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ILLICIT MINING AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Government should identify and prosecute profiteers of insecurity around the mines An investigative report, ‘The Shadow Owners,’ published by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics Limited (AERE) has alleged
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THE HEALTH SECTOR INTERVENTIONS
The upgrade of the Kaltungo Snakebite Treatment Centre is commendable With a mortality of 12 per cent, hundreds of Nigerians die annually from snakebites, yet authorities in the health sector have
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Towards a realistic, sustainable minimum wage
The Federal Government is right to reopen the minimum-wage question, because no wage can be called fair if it is continually outrun by inflation and the rising cost of survival. The N70,000 minimum wage was agreed in 2024 at the outset of President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms. Nigerians were asked to absorb painful shocks in […]
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