Ordinarily, a job scheme that is aimed at providing palliative to unemployed persons in a country battling with acute joblessness should not generate furore.

Given the pervasive environment of poverty without cause in Nigeria, political discussions are necessarily dreary or un-interesting in the absence of sincere interrogation of the root cause of the failure to establish the incidents of the welfare state regime in the country. It would be an odd sort of state which regards the general welfare…

Four persons have been critically injured in a ghastly motor accident involving a tanker laden with petrol and two commercial tricycles known as ”Keke NAPEP.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday sought a new legislation against corrupt behaviour by political office holders.

It is vital to note that even as we grapple with our huge housing deficit, the development of a virile mortgage sector is essential to addressing the deficit.

The Senate yesterday passed for third reading a bill for the establishment of a National Poverty Eradication Commission (NPEC).

The draft was unveiled by the Commissioner for Insurance Mohammed Kari, at the Insurers Committee meeting in Lagos. He gave the operator’s one-month period to critically examine the draft and inject their contributions.