Opinion

Photo by Realnews By Ifeanyi Izeze MISCHIEF, a major preoccupation of the human mind has been perfected by the word government and governance in our clime. And its manifestations are seen everywhere and in everything those who rule Nigeria do. It makes it very difficult or rather nearly impossible for us to discern between pure egocentricity/greed and genuine good intentions because the dividing line has become so thin that both can blend into each other without obvious signs on the outside for the gullible followers to see. Come to think of it that when big multinational companies are leaving Nigeria in drones to other countries as a result of the nation’s poorly performing economy and harsh policies of the government, the market value of Oando Plc – run by President Bola Tinubu’...

By Muda Yusuf  The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission [FCCPC] appears to be unwittingly transforming into a price control agency rather than a consumer protection commission. The disproportionate focus of the commission on the retail segment of the economy and pricing issues underscores this assertion.  Muda Yusuf, Founder/CEO ,CPPE The core mandate of the commission is the creation of a robust competition framework across sectors and protection of consumer rights and interests.  Consumer protection is not about directly seeking to control price at the retail end of the supply chain.  This is why the CPPE is concerned about the approach, methodology, targeting and the recent threats by the FCCPC to market leaders, traders and supermarket own...

Source: Punch By Ono Yima Senator Sumaila Kawu, representing Kano South, has disclosed that his monthly take-home package exceeds N21 million. This revelation contradicts the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission's (RMAFC) claim that each senator earns N1.06 million monthly. RMAFC's Breakdown According to RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, senators' monthly earnings break down are as follows: a basic salary of N168,866.70, plus allowances including motor vehicle fuelling and maintenance (N126,650), personal assistant (N42,216.66), domestic staff (N126,650), entertainment (N50,660), utilities (N50,660), newspapers/periodicals (N25,330), wardrobe (N42,216.66), house maintenance (N8,443.33), and constituency allowance (N422,166.66), totaling N1,063,860 per month. A...

By Suleiman A. Suleiman Let’s face it, Nigeria has a problem called Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. That problem begins with the organization’s rather ambiguous identity. ‘NNPC’ is one of the foremost household names in Nigeria, well known to nearly every Nigerian adult. Yet, it is still often difficult where or how exactly to place it among various categorizations of organisations in this country. Is the NNPC a state-owned enterprise, a public service provider like a university or yet, a private company like Innoson Motors? Or is the NNPC all three at once? If the first, then we should ask: what enterprise? How enterprising has been the NNPC over the past 30 years, or indeed, since its inception in 1977? If the second, then we must ask: what service or utility doe...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “RIGHTS are only worth having if they are occasionally boisterous, often inconvenient and frequently tiresome.” Inigo Bing, The Ten Legal Cases That Made Modern Britain, 169 (2022) Two years after his inauguration in October 2021 as Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT High Court), Husseini Baba Yusuf, decided in November 2023 that it was time to indulge in a sport of institutional mating games with the newly installed Minister of the Federal Capital, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike. By a stroke of coincidence, both men are members of the Body of Benchers, which describes itself as “the legal body of practitioners of the highest distinction in the legal profession.” To initiate the mating, the Chief Judge relocated to the office of the...

Source : Realnews By Emmanuel Onwubiko  IMMANUEL Kant in his 1785 Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals as a way of evaluating motivations for action, urged us to “Act according to the maxim that you would wish all other rational people to follow, as if it were a universal law.”  In a much more clearer template, Immanuel Kant charged that: ” It is our duty to act in such a manner that we would want everyone else to act in a similar manner in similar circumstances towards all other people.”  Our understanding of this Kantian perspective is that social justice should become the beacon,  the driving force and the underpinning objective that should guide all our actions or put distinctively, we are urged to build our actions upon a formidable ethical highgroun...

Aliko Dangote  By Festus Adedayo Without moving his body, African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina, watlzed his tall frame in a dance last week. He danced to the rhythm of ‘Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo’ of Gentleman Mike Ejeagha’s trending song track, “Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche.” A rhythmic refrain track from an album titled Akuko N’Egwu Vol. 1., “Ka Esi…” has a lot of similarities with ‘A o m’erin j’oba,’ both taken from Igbo and Yoruba cosmologies respectively. Both are from rich traditional African folklore. While both also had Elephant and Trickster Tortoise animal totems as their major characters, folklore teaches the moral of how never to throw benefactors under a moving train. Released in 1983 by Ejeagha of Imezi Owa, Ezeagu in Enugu State, “...

By Atiku Abubakar IN the evolution of systems of government, a major concern for thinkers was a governmental framework that will reduce the highhandedness of the executive arm of government. It was thought, and rightly so too, that a participatory approach to governance, such that will make the government derive its legitimacy from the people will better serve the interest of the masses. And thus, to make sure that the executive does not go overboard in the application of its powers, the legislative arm of government was conceived as a means of protecting the people from the authoritarian tendencies of wielders of state powers. Regrettably, however, the democracy in Nigeria in the current administration of President Bola Tinubu has become an anathema to that general principle o...

Sir S. B. Ozoana, Esq (JP) By Sir S. B. Ozoana, Esq (JP) It is becoming very fashionable for hospitals in Nigeria to detain their patients due discharge for the failure or inability of the said patients to liquidate the hospital bills. Sometime ago the Lagos University Teaching Hospital was reported to have detained a baby and the mother for four months over unpaid medical bills. Also, recently a woman, who had lost her baby just after delivering prematurely at the Ajeromi General Hospital in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State, was reportedly detained with the infant's remains, for almost a month, by the management over her inability to settle her medical bill of over three hundred thousand naira. The detention was despite the State's directive to all General Hospitals and Primar...

By Reuben Abati  Media Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of life we are in death.) This is a Gregorian chant that I often recall whenever there is an accident, a sudden, shocking abbrevliation of life in the midst of hope and promise, a most tragic reminder of man’s mortality. Life as either a chemical or biological process must come to an end when it will, but it is the time and manner of it that leaves the lasting imprint on our memory. The tragic death of the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi (63), his foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian (60) and seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday evokes these thoughts afresh, as well as frightening memories.  Nigeria was thrown into shock in February this year when the tragic news was reported that Herbert Wi...