Gbenga Kayode

There is, arguably, no other way the current Administration in Nigeria could prove to many anxious Nigerians and members of the international world, that it really means business in tackling the endemic corruption seriously retarding the progress of the country than implementing the recommendations in the Fuel Subsidy Report. The document recently, was submitted to the House Leadership at plenary of the House of Representatives, Lower Chamber of Nigeria's National Assembly (NASS), in Abuja.

Scores of Nigerians have condemned the idea of the Nigerian Presidency's giving audience to the group and its "physical representatives" with a view to discussing, dissecting and considering the propriety or otherwise of Boko Haram's demands. Others have insisted the Government should dialogue with them to make them stop the continued bombings. Meanwhile, the leadership of this Islamic fundamentalist sect seems to have taken the Nigerian Presidency tolerance and diplomacy for granted....

Some unrepentant retirees' pension looters and economic saboteurs have mindlessly ripped Nigeria, a nation generally adjudged the sixth largest producer of Crude Oil of its massive wealth meant for the good of millions of the citizenry.

That crude oil wealth is the mainstay of Nigeria's economy is not in doubt. The petroleum sector is said to be accounting for about 90% of the nation's overall revenue in a typical fiscal year. However, the nation is reportedly losing about N921 billion annually to oil thievery. But, who are these oil theft criminals and their civilian and military collaborators?

South African President Jacob Zuma had answered a question posed to him by our visiting editorial team from Nigeria, on the thorny issue this way: "... rules that govern this aspect must be carefully examined and retouched where necessary to ensure adequate balance....

Lack of adequate planning has been the bane of marked progress in Nigeria overtime. The Government recently dropped a bombshell: the seemingly lofty items outlined in the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme, which was hurriedly and unrealistically compiled and published as a face-saving measure to sway scores of Nigeria

Amid apparent, ever pervasive darkness in homes and offices across Nigeria for decades, the latest announcement by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in conjunction with the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), to jack up electricity tariffs in the country is generally regarded by countless electricity consumers as the most insulting, unjustifiable, unmerited and absurd from any government agency in recent times.

A pension plan is a method in which an employee transfers part of his or her current income stream toward retirement income. Regrettably, instead of pursuing the fundamental goal of this ordinarily promising plan to ensure a retiree's stress-free financial future is currently being defeated in the Nigerian system.

Nigeria has continued to experience one violent uprising after another in recent times. The nation, once more, seems terrifyingly near disintegration. It is quite incontrovertible to state that activities of various socio-political and ethnic nationalities, in words and deeds, predominantly fuel the pervading aura of imminent dissolution of the country soon.

Continued suggestions by certain individuals and groups to the Federal Government of Nigeria, that it should initiate a dialogue with the dreaded, devilish and mysterious Boko Haram insurrectionist Islamic sect with a viewing to appeasing them to back off their extremely disruptive and devastating activities are quite unfortunate.