Issues/Policy
Election Season By Kaine Agary
It is that time again when we as citizens perform our civic duty and exercise our right to vote for those who will represent us in the executive and legislative arms of government to ensure […]
Month: July 2018
Issues/Policy
Is Trump un-American? | Punch
In the first year of President Barack Obama’s presidency, he was dogged by criticisms that he talked down the United States at international fora. It was at a time when he was brimming with optimism […]
Politics
The Easiest Vote In 20 Years By Sonala Olumhense
The front pages of Nigeria newspapers last week were dominated by big-wig political defections. In Nigeria, it is now a measure of major national elections when politicians loudly traffic themselves from one big party to […]
Issues/Policy
Secundus The Third: Enthronement of Secondhand Life By kole Omotoso
Let us begin with the multiple worlds in which we live. We live in three worlds and these three worlds are not unrelated to the three worlds of the living, the dead and the unborn. […]
Issues/Policy
Gunboat Democracy By Sunny Awhefeada
There is a sense in which some commentators are right when they argue that Nigeria is not a democracy. Their argument is based on the reality that the military has remained more than a recurring […]
Issues/Policy
Whose Hate Speech Threatens National Unity – Part 2 By Martins Oloja
There is a correlation between pursuit of criminalization of free speech (hate speech) and Press Council Amendment Bill the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) and BON rejected outright during a public hearing on the bill the […]
Business
Okitipupa Oil Palm Firm Bounces Back, Begins Production By Gbenga Akinfenwa
After six years of disruptive recess, occasioned by the interference of misgovernance, the Okitipupa Oil Palm Company (OOPC) Plc, Ondo State, has finally bounced back into active operation and effective production. This new lease of […]
Issues/Policy
Criminalise Estimated Electricity Billing! | Guardian (NG)
A bill before the House of Representatives seeking to criminalise the irritant estimated billing by the Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) is remarkable at this time. When passed into law in good time, the legislation will […]
Security
Security Agencies and Our Democracy By Simon Kolawole
At times, I could be mischievous. When security agents barricaded Government House, Ado Ekiti, ahead of the July 14 governorship election — and Governor Ayo Fayose released his hit single, “I’m in Pains” — a […]
Religion
Healing Wings (1), By Femi Aribisala | PremiumTimes
Thus says the Lord: “Whosoever you touch and pray for, I will heal.” In 1994, the Lord healed me miraculously of bullet-wounds in my left leg, after I was shot by armed-robbers. Thereafter, he asked […]
CRIME
Nigerian-American Jailed Four Years In U.S. For Cyber Fraud | PremiumTimes
Emeka Ndukwu, 46, a Nigerian-American based in Maryland, has been sentenced to four years in prison for engaging in business e-mail scheme and conspiring to launder more than $900,000 proceeds of scams. The Federal Bureau […]
Government
PremiumTimes INTERVIEW: Giving Buhari APC Ticket Again Will Be Worse Than Annulment of June 12 – Presidential Aspirant
SKC Ogbonnia is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Ololade Bamidele, he speaks on his chances, the raging crisis in the party, the […]
Government
Ekiti Values: A Love Letter to Ekiti Sons and Daughters, By Bunmi Fatoye-Matory
The question to ask at the dawn of this 21st century is who we want to be. Even in the midst of the national disorderliness and disorientation in which Ekiti has found itself, we need […]
Issues/Policy
Stay Away From The Oyo-Ogbomosho Death Trap By Abiodun Ladepo
If you value your life, stay away from the Oyo – Ogbomosho highway. Notice I didn’t say “Expressway”. Just stay away, okay? How bad is it? Pretty bad. And I am not talking about bad […]
Government
The Public Servant As A Transformational Leader, By Tunji Olaopa
Turning the Nigerian public servant into a transformational leader requires the development of distinctive competence of adapting existing public managers to the challenges posed by the imperative of development complexities and the ever changing policy […]
Issues/Policy
#AdeosunGate: Nigerians Criticise Buhari Govt’s Silence Three Weeks After, Demand Action | PremiumTimes
Nigerians have continued to ventilate their anger on President Muhammadu Buhari, his administration, and the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, for choosing to ignore a certificate forgery scandal involving the minister. Frontline Nigerian newspapers have […]
Government
Before The Closure of Third Mainland Bridge | Vanguard
IT is gratifying to note that the Federal Government has shifted the date for closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos for repairs from Friday, 27th July to Friday, 24th August 2018. Minister of […]
Government
They Wanted To Remove Us and Stop Defections – Ekweremadu By Dennis Agbo
ENUGU- Deputy President of the Senate, Prof Ike Ekweremadu has revealed that the security siege on his house and that of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki was to prevent them from going […]
Issues/Policy
ICYMI: The Prophets Are Here Again By Fola Ojo
Fola Ojo willieojo@yahoo.com My 19-year-old son was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was 11, I took him visiting Nigeria and just that once. But he is as thorough-bred a Nigerian as any Nigerian can […]
Issues/Policy
Parents, Teach Your Daughters Contentment & Endurance!!! By Temilolu Okeowo
Dear Mummy Temilolu, I clocked 27 last month, yet I have my virginity intact. I have passed and still passing through hell in the hands of men! Living a chaste life hasn’t been easy for […]