Editorial
NCC’s ‘lawful interception’ plan
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it plans to introduce ‘lawful interception,’ a legally-sanctioned official access to private communications such as telephonic calls, e-mail messages and such other electronic exchange of information like short messaging service (SMS) and multimedia ... Read More »
Eradication of open defecation
The plan by the Lagos State Government to eradicate defecation in open places in the state is a welcome development. The government intends to achieve this objective by promoting the construction of household latrines. Read More »
The dithering on Excess Crude Account
The failure of the Federal Government to resolve its lingering impasse with state governors on its unilateral management and disbursement of funds from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) does not portray seriousness with the effort to put this needless controversy ... Read More »
Job racketeering
The sack of the erstwhile Comptroller-General of Immigration (CGI), Mrs. Rose Uzoma, over alleged job racketeering at the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has brought to the open the shady deals that characterize most recruitment exercises in Ministries, Departments and Agencies ... Read More »
Police College rot
It is demonstrative of the way we live that it took a documentary expose by Channels Television for Nigerians to know the decay at the country’s foremost service citadel of learning, the 72-year-old Nigeria Police Training College, Ikeja, Lagos. But ... Read More »
Floating corpses
The recent discovery of about 22 male corpses floating in Ezu River at Amansea, a border area between Enugu and Anambra States, is a serious matter that calls for hard questions for our security agencies. Who killed these men and ... Read More »
Floating corpses
The recent discovery of about 22 male corpses floating in Ezu River at Amansea, a border area between Enugu and Anambra States, is a serious matter that calls for hard questions for our security agencies. Who killed these men and ... Read More »
Conviction of Okah
At last, a South African court has convicted former Niger Delta militant, Henry Okah, on a 13-count terrorism charges including the heinous, twin car bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee Independence Day anniversary celebration on ... Read More »
CBN’s new micro-finance policy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently rolled out a new set of rules for the operations of micro-finance banks (MFBs) in the country.According to the apex bank, the essence of the revised regulatory and supervisory guidelines is to address ... Read More »
