Nigeria’s worsening youth unemployment
The new report that 80 million Nigerian youths are unemployed is lamentable and unacceptable. The report also underscores the nation’s…
Category: Editorial
Tackling perennial flooding in Nigeria
The recent warning of possible heavy rainfall and flooding in 32 locations across 11 states in the country has further…
Digital literacy and challenges ahead
Nigeria’s plan to implement the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) model for national examinations next year will be buffeted with enormous challenges,…
The moratorium on new universities
The federal government has imposed a seven-year moratorium on the establishment of new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.…
The arrest of notorious terrorist leaders
The recent arrest of two notorious Ansaru terrorist leaders, Mahmud Muhammad Usman and Mahmud al-Nigeri, by Nigerian security operatives during…
Nigeria’s rising income inequality
A new damning report from Oxfam, a British-founded non-governmental organisation that focuses on poverty alleviation and inequality, has revealed that…
Drop the wage increase for politicians
The new plan to increase the salary of political office holders by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC)…
Reduction of high interest rates
Despite admitting that high interest rate poses the biggest threat to effective business operation in the country, it is sad…
Doyin Abiola (1943-2025)
Former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Concord Newspapers, Dr Doyinsola Hamidat Abiola, died on August 5, 2025, at the…
FG must probe the airport incidents
The unprofessional handling of the two bizarre incidents in the nation’s aviation sector has further exposed the discriminatory enforcement of…