To mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day, the minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, hosted a press conference online during which she restated Nigeria’s commitment to ensuring a coordinated approach to humanitarian...
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and Nigerians in general have been expecting the inauguration of the National
Transport Commission (NTC) projected to transform the transportation industry,
just as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) have done to the telecommunications and banking...
Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has become notorious for raising
alarms over the state of the country, whenever he attends important public
functions. In Ibadan, last week, General Danjuma did not disappoint those who
expected his earth-shaking pronouncements on the state of the nation....
President
Muhammadu Buhari’s unhidden nepotism reared its ugly head yet again this week. He
replaced the executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service,
Babatunde Fowler, with Muhammad Nami on the day the former’s first tenure
expired. The following day, Tuesday, Buhari sacked...
Just when we thought all hope of
finding honest Nigerians was lost, Mrs Josephine Ugwu emerged to clear all
doubts. A former cleaner at the airports, Ugwu was the first of two employees
of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria that President...
Following persistent outcries over alleged non-performance of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the commission. The audit is expected to cover the operations of the NDDC from...
Thanks to the tanker fires of
last Wednesday, we now know that Onitsha, despite its huge population, lacks a
functioning fire service station. This
means that the trillions of naira worth of goods in Onitsha markets are at the
wind’s mercy. Do the...
Air Peace has been lifting Nigerians from South Africa back to their home
country. At least 500 have returned, as the benevolent airline continues its
philanthropic activity and the federal government also starts ferrying angry
citizens back from the “rainbow nation”. We...
*The New Nigerian editorial published 45 years ago
It is commonplace to say that Nigeria is at the moment very lucky because of
oil revenues. In a very real sense we have much more money than our system can
absorb. Unofficial estimates...
Sheikh
Ibraheem Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), otherwise
called Shi’ites, and his wife have been in detention since December 2015 after
a confrontation between the Islamic group and Nigerian soldiers in Kaduna State,
which led to the massacre of...