Amupitan: New Broom At INEC – By Reuben Abati
Last week, October 7, the announcement was made of the exit of Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, Chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 2015 – 2025, and his replacement in…
Renowned Evangelist Uma Ukpai Dies At 80
Renowned Nigerian evangelist and spiritual leader of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, Rev. Uma Ukpai, is dead. This was confirmed in a statement on Monday by his family, who said he…
FGN To ASUU: Shelve Strike In The Interest Of Students
The Federal Government of Nigeria has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider its decision to embark on an industrial strike, emphasising that constructive dialogue remains…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal Paradox
Nigeria’s oil sector is a study in paradox, and the Tinubu administration appears content to watch the contradiction unfold. More than a year after the removal of fuel subsidies and…
Spotlight: Twin Tragedies of Life Expectancy and Liberty – Nigeria’s Shame Under Tinubu
It is a bitter irony of leadership when the nation entrusted to preserve life instead witnesses its citizens die younger than anywhere else; and then cages them in the worst…
Tracking Nigerian public projects – By Sonala Olumhense
In the end, last week’s Arise TV interview with the Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, ended somewhat productively. I had moments when I feared an outbreak of fisticuffs across…
ASUU Declares Nationwide Two-Week Warning Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced a total and comprehensive two-week warning strike affecting all public universities across Nigeria. The Union’s National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, made…
Council Of State Approves Amupitan As New INEC Chairman
The National Council of State has approved the nomination of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This was disclosed in…
Dangote Refinery, Oil Workers’ Unions and Nigeria’s Struggle for Accountability – By Ifeanyi Izeze
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the troubling contradictions in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, particularly when it comes to the role of the oil workers’unions. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)…
Daring the Dangote monopoly – By Lekan Sote
Nigeria’s tribe of pseudo-socialists and Marxists, who hardly understand the demands of economics, appear to be behind their trade union ideological kinsmen who are fighting Dangote Refinery, possibly on behalf…