Editorial

JUST hours into his administration, President Bola Tinubu started feeling

TAKING the oath of office on Monday, President Bola Tinubu

TAKING office at a time of spiralling economic adversity, President

AFTER several decades of navigating the country’s predatory political waters,

MAJOR GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) bows out today as the

UNABLE and unwilling to wean himself of his martial roots,

TO gauge the impact (or lack of it) of the

AS he departs for his Daura, Katsina State home, the

IN his last days in office, the President, Major General

REALITY is not only a persistent companion; it can also

AMID claims by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),

ON its way out, like the Executive Branch, the Ninth

AMID dwindling revenues, unsustainable salaries, pensions, unpaid gratuities and other

THE race for the leadership of the next National Assembly

FOR long dogged by official prevarication, dubious concessions, asset stripping,

FRIDAY, May 12, was the anniversary of the barbaric killing

APPREHENSION spread across the country recently with the shocking news

EVIDENCE of hunger across the land is mounting in daily

THE recent revelation by the Director-General of the Standards Organisation

IMPRUDENT as ever, senators have pushed a bill to establish

THE recent warning on the alarming rate at which Nigerians

THE 90-page document of achievements rolled out by the media

THE recent warning strike by aviation industry workers’ unions over

RISING insecurity is generating apprehension among residents of South-West Nigeria

WITH just four weeks left to quit office, the President,

THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), bowed to reality

THE recent upsurge in police misconduct across the country is

AS he bids farewell to Nigerians on May 29, an

THE avalanche of election petitions arising from the 2023 general

NIGERIA’S long-running petrol subsidy payments have become a gargantuan conundrum,

NIGERIA joins the rest of the world to mark the

THE alarm raised by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir

THE salvage of the Adamawa State governorship re-run elections by

A draconian bill being prepared by the House of Representatives

A Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has reminded Nigerians once again

THE news that Foreign Direct Investment inflow into Nigeria fell

THE recent mob justice visited on a final-year student of

REFLECTING the immaturity of Nigeria’s democracy, some governors-elect are issuing

THE recent judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja

THE new updates on Nigeria’s huge debt profile from the

MOST of Nigeria’s 36 atomised states are living on the

WHILE Nigerians bicker over the conduct and results of the

AFTER years of baiting the law, Donald Trump on Wednesday

ENCIRCLED by hunger, poverty, disease and war, millions of people

UNSCRUPULOUS as ever, some politicians in their desperation to win

THE military has just dispersed another 594 Boko Haram terrorists

THE death of yet another Nigerian, Chizoba Favour Eze, in

NIGERIA’S perennial failure to reverse critical negative human development indices

AS the dust settles after the general elections, the minimal

A report highlighting Africa’s status as having the lowest energy

THE pockets of violence reported in some parts of the

THE assent by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),

THE Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed,

THE recent disclosure by the National Agency for Food and

NIGERIAN soldiers’ propensity for brutality and extrajudicial killings continue to

IN its latest World Air Quality report, a Swiss air

THE high level of electoral offences witnessed in the 2023

THE spate of killings by Fulani herdsmen and militias has

LIKE a meteor, Punch Nigeria Limited brightened Nigeria’s newspaper skyline

SOME respite is finally in sight for Nigerians, who have