The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged Nigerians to embrace peace, noting that decades of conflicts particularly in the North-East region of the country have hindered the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

If I were to offer advice to the current government and the Minister of Power on how to tackle the challenges in the power sector, I would emphasise that the primary issue plaguing Nigeria's power sector is liquidity. This problem permeates all aspects of the industry, including generation, transmission and distribution.

There are very high expectations in Ekiti State that Governor Oyebanji would surpass the record set by his predecessors due to his approach to governance in the last 300 days.

Since the re-establishment of democratic governance in the country in 1999, our election cycle, every four years, has availed us the opportunity to either renew the mandates of our elected leaders, or replace them from time to time. I was too young to participate in the elections held in the first republic.

The alarm raised by Public policy think tank group Nextier and the country director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) that no fewer than 15 million Nigerian children are engaged in child labour in Nigeria is quite frightening.