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ORDINARILY, we should be giving the Muhammadu Buhari administration a pat on the back for “summoning the courage” to implement the full deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector and tot...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/wrong-time-for-pms-electricity-price-hikes-1/

WE are in full support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for efforts to be channelled towards setting a reasonable time limit for criminal cases. He handed this charge to the Nigerian Bar As...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/time-limit-for-criminal-cases/

AN early confirmation of the appointments of the pioneer executive of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, NCPD, by the Senate is now awaited to enable the new agency start work...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/better-life-for-people-with-disabilities/

  THE much-anticipated reopening of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, AIIAE, took place on schedule on Sunday, August 30, 2020. But it ran into a controversy when it was discovered t...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/needless-angst-over-reopened-enugu-airport/

WE congratulate Nigeria’s Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina for his re-election as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, by the Bank’s Board of Directors with the full support of other stakeho...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/adesinas-second-term-at-afdb/

ONE of Nigeria’s obvious national hobbies is the routine tinkering with the constitution. Whether under military or civilian regimes, the impulse to convene conferences towards the promulgation...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/constitution-review-or-a-new-charter/

WHEN will Nigeria ever have a stable social sector? When shall we have at least ten years of unbroken services in the education and health sectors? When will government learn to fulfill its oblig...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/doctors-strike-enough-is-enough/

THE 60th edition of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference which held in Lagos between Wednesday and Saturday, August 26 and 29, 2020, was nearly scuppered by the usual Nige...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/nbas-disinvite-controversy/

IT was very broadly predicted that the prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic would come with severe adverse economic consequences all over the world. As we enter the seventh month o...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/rising-costs-hardship-in-the-land/

THE controversy following the assent into law by President Muhammadu Buhari of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, 2020, is an issue that requires amicable resolution rather than a unilat...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/cama-2020-controversy-must-be-resolved/

THE trade crisis between Nigeria and Ghana has continued to escalate because both countries (particularly Nigeria) have been living in denial. Nigeria has traditionally reacted to other African c...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/resolving-the-nigeria-ghana-trade-feud/

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration can be credited with a number of policies and legal instruments perceived to be stifling the democratic space and capable of setting the various Nigerian group...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/again-the-water-resources-bill/

IN the more advanced democracies, you only see electioneering activities just a few months to elections. The American presidential system is a little more elaborate, with its system of state-by-s...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/too-early-for-2023-politics/

IF the Malian political class, particularly the government of the deposed president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, had accepted the push for an interim government of national unity proposed by the form...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/mali-situation-a-regional-threat/

THE Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports is set to implement the removal of squatters from the nation’s stadia, especially in Lagos and Abuja. The Minister, Sunday Dare, has never hidden his de...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/quit-order-on-national-stadium-squatters/

NO matter the challenges confronting Nigeria, we are still a great country. We have patriots who will not allow the dignity and sovereignty of our country to be toyed with for any reason. The p...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/chinese-loans-and-our-sovereignty-2/

OUR polity has been over-heated by the seemingly endless debates on the issue of loans given or about to be given to Nigeria by the government of China for our infrastructural development. The ...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/chinese-loans-and-our-sovereignty-1/

EARLY last week a viral video of Nigerians allegedly chased into the desert of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, was the talk of the town and the social media. To underscore the fact that t...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/nigerians-chased-into-dubai-desert/

APART from our late response to the coronavirus pandemic back in March 2020, the weak capacity in our health system and lacklustre citizen support through the provision of palliatives, Nigeria ha...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/caution-over-russian-vaccine/

A LOT of questions surround the request by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, for a security bailout fund by the Federal Government. The post Questionable demand for security bailout fund a...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/questionable-demand-for-security-bailout-fund/