Punch Editorial Board
Critical reforms needed in power sector
A new plan by the Federal Government to unbundle the electricity distribution companies along state lines is a tacit acknowledgement of one of the perennial weaknesses the power sector has been fraugh...
2nd May 2024
IWD 2024: Not the best of times for workers
THERE is little to celebrate for Nigerian workers on the International Workers Day 2024, which is held across the world today. Apart from a damning jobless rate, workers in Africa’s fourth-largest e...
1st May 2024
Tinubu, complete overhaul of education system
IN a bid to assess the condition of the infrastructure of schools in Nigeria, from primary to tertiary level, President Bola Tinubu has approved an extensive census to be taken. The stocktaking includ...
30th April 2024
Suleja jailbreak: Custodial centres need urgent reforms
THE recent collapse of part of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, Niger State, underscores the depth of decay plaguing the Nigerian Correctional Service system. Beyond a simplistic name cha...
30th April 2024
Terrorism: Time to eradicate illegal mining
IN a refreshing analysis, President Bola Tinubu has identified one of the triggers for Islamic terrorism: terrorists are using the proceeds of illegal mining to support their nefarious crusade. There ...
29th April 2024
States must keep people safe from floods
FLOODS are likely to wreak havoc on people and properties this year. In an ominous update, the Federal Government has just written at least 31 governors about the impending flooding in their states be...
29th April 2024
Nigeria needs an anti-bullying policy
BULLYING remains a noxious issue in Nigerian schools, with detrimental effects on the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of students.The recent cases of bullying and physical harassment...
28th April 2024
Age limit for varsity admissions backward
WHILE the Nigerian tertiary education landscape is plagued with problems that demand urgent attention, the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, seems interested in exploring a controversial policy. Du...
26th April 2024
Ex-Kogi gov: EFCC needs to change tactics
FROM the well-advertised soap opera starring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Yahaya Bello, a former Kogi governor, it is evident that the anti-graft agency must overhaul its tactics i...
26th April 2024
WMD: Intensifying the fight against malaria
AS the global community marks World Malaria Day today, Nigeria is still a long way from eliminating the disease. In essence, too many people are still dying annually from the disease despite the broad...
25th April 2024
Sustaining naira appreciation
NIGERIA’S currency, the naira, which has been taking a battering since it was floated in June, has started garnering a positive outlook as it has been appreciating in the forex market in the past th...
25th April 2024
Egbetokun mistaken on state police
THE urgency of state police in Nigeria has become obvious to many stakeholders, yet the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has continued in the mould of his predecessors to oppose it. Beyo...
24th April 2024
Foreign businesses’ discrimination insulting
HAVING been caught napping, it is interesting to see the sanctions the authorities will mete out on foreign businesses discriminating against Nigerians in their own country. At the weekend, both tradi...
24th April 2024
States must access UBEC fund
FRESH revelations that 27 states failed to access a total of N54.9 billion Universal Basic Education fund by not providing commensurate counterpart funding, accentuate Nigeria’s education underdevel...
23rd April 2024
Playing with World Cup 2026 ticket
NIGERIA’S football authorities are playing with fire regarding qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Essentially, less than two months to the next qualifying games due between June 3 and 11, th...
23rd April 2024
Solutions to Nigeria’s soaring food prices
FOR far too long, Nigerians have been under torment by the astronomical rise in the prices of basic foods and services in the marketplace. This gives room for a huge concern as the steep prices have b...
22nd April 2024
Nigeria’s imperative to end child labour
A new report by the National Bureau of Statistics indicating that over 24 million Nigerian children between the ages of five and 17 are involved in child labour demands urgent attention and execution ...
21st April 2024
State police: Further delay is risky
THE deterioration of security has continued to stimulate support for the swift establishment of state police as a panacea for the bloody violence. The state and federal governments and the federal and...
19th April 2024
Suicide not the answer
EARLY in April, a Deputy Commissioner of Police serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, Gbolahan Oyedemi, reportedly took his own life at his private hous...
19th April 2024
Escalate prosecution of naira mutilators!
WITH the swift arrest and prosecution of controversial cross-dresser Olarewaju Okuneye, alias Bobrisky, for naira mutilation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has set the tone to restore t...
18th April 2024
Yoruba Nation invasion a call to anarchy
In a rather bizarre turn of events, some members of the Yoruba Nation (Ominira Yoruba), a fringe separatist group, took up arms against the Nigerian state last weekend. The group invaded the Governor�...
18th April 2024
Tinubu, is this a military regime?
THE abduction, detention and subsequent torture and dehumanisation of the Editor of an online newspaper, FirstNews, Segun Olatunji, must not be swept under the carpet. President Bola Tinubu must prove...
17th April 2024
Oil theft still poses grave risk to Nigeria
NIGERIA’S oil sector is in urgent need of salvaging. The drop in crude oil production from 1.32 million barrels per day in February to 1.23mbpd in March, per OPEC, means that output plunged by 91,00...
16th April 2024
Fresh impetus for restructuring
THE latest call made by a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, for Nigeria to be restructured into a truly federal polity is an urgent one given the myriad of challenges impeding the country. His voic...
16th April 2024
Addressing Nigeria’s fake certificate crisis
ACADEMIC integrity is becoming suspect and questionable in Nigeria due to the constant exposure of forgeries, corruption, and malfeasance in the system. In midweek, the Joint Admissions and Matriculat...
15th April 2024
Concerns taint Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway
UNDER the radar for a lengthy period after its conception, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is finally taking off under a storm of controversy. A 700-kilometre turnpike infrastructure, the project ha...
15th April 2024
Chibok girls’ abduction: Decade of decadence
TEN years ago today, in the dark of the night, the people of Chibok in Borno State, were soundly asleep, unaware of the impending horror that was about to unfold in their community. Suddenly, the sile...
14th April 2024
Nigeria’s diplomatic image can be better
SIX months after President Bola Tinubu recalled all career and non-career ambassadors from Nigeria’s diplomatic missions worldwide, their offices in embassies and consulates have remained vacant. Th...
12th April 2024
Nigeria needs a push against high trade costs
NIGERIA’S high trade costs are standing out in bold relief again. In its April 2024 Africa’s Pulse, a biannual survey of African economies, the global lender noted that trade costs in Nigeria (and...
12th April 2024
New national ID cards, a waste of resources
NIGERIA’S identity card system is about to get more complicated. This is after the National Identity Management Commission notified the public of its intention to launch three new national ID cards ...
11th April 2024
Mob justice is barbaric, stop it!
THE Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has again condemned mob justice, stressing its negative impact on the country’s justice system. In Nigeria, it is commonly refer...
11th April 2024