It was over three decades ago that Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, passed a damning verdict on his generation. Soyinka, one of the most renowned personalities of post-independence Nigerian elite, had written off his […]
Dear Chief Ogbeh, This is a follow-up on the issues I raised last week in “A friendly letter to President Buhari” (The PUNCH, May 3, 2016), namely, the vexing problems of herdsmen’s killings and the […]
It is miscellany time again, Matters Miscellaneous being the rubric I patented more than three decades ago to take editorial notice, in broad strokes and short takes and in no particular order, of some events […]
For federal and state governments, the month of March would herald a new low on their fiscal calendar. With a total N299.75 billion available to be shared for the month – the lowest allocation in […]
For being alive to its responsibility by making the demands for a new minimum wage based on “The National Minimum Wage Act”, which former President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law in April 2011, that has a […]
President Muhammad Bukhara has revealed that 27 out of 36 state governments have not been able to meet salary obligations to their staff. That is official. This is in spite of the bailout provided to […]
These are hard and harsh economic times for Nigeria. A culture of waste, indiscipline, mindless corruption as well as lack of planning and vision on the part of the leadership at all levels has made […]
Some understandable degree of excitement greeted the recent state visit of President Buhari to China. The visit has been marketed by government spokespersons as full of promise for our critically injured economy. There will be […]
Since the release of Iyabo Anisulowo, erstwhile Minister of Education from the kidnappers den, the authorities in Ogun State have been on a media blitz. From the Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali to Governor Ibikunle […]
NIGERIANS should brace for new petrol prices, with the Federal Government deregulating the downstream sector of the oil industry. There is likely to be a minimum of 27.17 per cent hike in fuel price nationwide, […]
Mr. Lekan Shonde, who allegedly killed his wife, Ronke, surrendered himself to the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on Monday. The suspect, who spoke exclusively with PUNCH Metro, had agreed to […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday presided over some meetings as part of efforts aimed at tackling the menace of militants who have been vandalising oil and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta. Osinbajo first […]
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said the newly elected mayor of London would be an “exception” to his proposed ban on Muslims travelling to the US. Because of his faith, Sadiq Khan had expressed concern […]
Facebook is being accused of fiddling with its formulas to suppress conservative news. That’s what some unnamed former Facebook contractors told the tech site Gizmodo—and it’s an accusation that strikes at the heart of the […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan opened the door Monday to stepping down as Republican convention chairman if asked by presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom Ryan has declined to endorse. Ryan first made the comments during […]
The State Department told the Republican National Committee that it could not find any emails to or from Hillary Clinton’s former IT specialist, who managed her private email server before going on to work for […]
A Brazilian lawmaker’s surprise announcement Monday sent the country’s scandal-plagued government spinning as a key question looms: Will a Senate vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff go forward as expected this week? So far, there […]
Donald Trump declared Monday the U.S. never has to default on debt “because you print the money,” while trying to clarify his strategy for managing the national debt. Trump insisted that he never said the […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backtracked on Monday on his remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed. Trump walked away from […]
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