Technology
Apple To Produce iPhone In India | Punch
Apple is to start making iPhones in India this year, a local government official said Friday, as the firm looks to tap a booming middle class as sales in China slow. The US giant has […]
Year: 2017
Education
Centralising Education: Perish The Thought | Punch
The forces enamoured of centralisation are in fine fettle with a recent proposal that may remove education from the concurrent to the exclusive legislative list. It is in the works, according to the Minister of […]
Government
The President’s Enemies Are Becoming My Enemies – Mc Tagwaye
Mc Tagwaye, a comedian from Katsina State, has taken the internet by storm as he looks and talks like President Muhammadu Buhari. He speaks to Ademola Olonilua about his brand How did you come about […]
Issues/Policy
Obasanjo Is Right, 2019 Is Our Time — Ezeife
A former governor of the old Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, tells TOBI AWORINDE that the emergence of an Igbo president in 2019 would put an end to ethnic-based marginalisation in Nigeria what do you […]
Religion
Revealed: Nigeria’s Rich Mega Churches Pay Pastors Poor Salaries
An investigation carried out by SUNDAY PUNCH has shown that many of Nigeria’s mega rich churches pay their pastors poor wages, reports SUNDAY ABORISADE An extensive investigation carried out by SUNDAY PUNCH has revealed that […]
Government
Whoever Plans To Arrest Me After My Tenure Won’t Be In Office By Then – Gov. Fayose
Some people have said that your fingers and those of some other PDP governors got burnt after bringing in Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff to head the party and how things turned out. Such people believe […]
Issues/Policy
The Fall of Buhari, And The APC By Sonala Olumhense
I extend to President Muhammadu Buhari my warmest sympathies on his sick bed. It is a measure of the fragility of our democracy that an elected president insists on hiding his frailty from the people […]
Issues/Policy
Tuface Backs off, Cancels Anti-Govt Protest | PremiumTimes
Popular artiste, Innocent Idibia, better known as Tuface, has canceled the much-publicised February 6 anti-government protest, citing “security challenges”. In an Instagram post and a short video via his official handle @official2baba late Saturday, Tuface […]
Issues/Policy
BREAKING: DSS Queries Ex-Convict Ibori | Punch
Operatives of the Department of State Services picked up deported former Governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori in Abuja on Saturday morning. Friends, family and associates of Ibori, who were expecting him in the […]
Government
BREAKING: US Suspends Trump’s Travel Ban | Punch
US authorities on Saturday suspended President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, following a court ruling that blocked its enforcement. “We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas,” a US State […]
Economy
Feeding The Nation Behind a computer: Nigeria’s new generation of farmers without farms By Kunle Falayi
Thirty-nine-year-old Ishola Adelakun held up the palm of his hands to show how soft they were. In Nigeria, how coarse the palm is, is often a measure of how physically “hardworking” one is. For a […]
Politics
Tell Me One Thing I Said That Is Not True – Lai Mohammed | Punch
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says he reads comments of people who claim not to believe what he says and coin his first name as “Lie’’. The minister stated this while […]
Education
FG, Govs Have Turned Universities Into Constituency Projects –Ogunyemi, ASUU President
The National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in this interview with TUNDE AJAJA explains the sanctions imposed on University of Ilorin, why the union may not stop using strike as a […]
Issues/Policy
Mother Spends 16 Days With Dead Baby, Takes Body For Walks | Punch
A young woman spent 16 days with her dead baby girl and even took the body on walks after a hospice provided a refrigerated ‘cuddle cot’, Daily Mail UK, reports. Charlotte Szakacs’ daughter, Evlyn, died […]
Government
Former Delta Governor, Ibori, ‘Arrives In Abuja’ | PremiumTimes
Former Gov. James Ibori of Delta has arrived in the country on Saturday. An official of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the British Airways […]
Issues/Policy
Why Police Sealed Nigerian Private Station, Core TV, Others | PremiumTimes
The security operatives who sealed the Abuja office of a cable and satellite broadcaster, CoreTV, early Friday morning were not from the State Security Service, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The operatives were from the Mobile […]
Politics
The Politics of Magu’s Confirmation, By Godwin Onyeacholem
This has left the politics of Magu’s confirmation, dirty and ill-tempered as it is, with a few unanswered questions. For example, if there was no evil agenda, what is the business of DSS in including […]
Government
Those Behind Buhari Death Rumour Are ‘Abnormal’ — Obasanjo | PremiumTimes
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the people behind the death rumour of President Muhammed Buhari as abnormal human beings. Mr. Obasanjo, in a statement made available to journalists on Friday, said the death rumour […]
Issues/Policy
Breaking: James Ibori Back In Nigeria Finally
The former Governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori who was released last month from prison in the United Kingdom (UK) has arrived in Nigeria. Chief James Onanefe Ibori Iberia who flight landed in Abuja […]
Nigeria
There’s No Travel Ban on Nigerians – US envoy By Victoria Ojeme
United States has said Nigerians will not be banned from entering the country contrary to speculations of many. Trump had signed an executive order barring citizens from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan […]