Issues/Policy
My Thief Is Better Than Yours… By Chide Ibrahim
As a young girl in secondary school, I caught a glimpse of a book with one of my teachers and the title made an impression, though I never had an opportunity to read it as […]
Month: October 2018
Issues/Policy
With Love, From India By Azu Ishiekwene
My first instinct when I got the WhatsApp message was to dismiss it as fake news. But I held back because the sender is a serious guy. It was a memo from a certain school […]
News
UN Puts Nigeria’s Population At 195.9M
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 76 percent of Nigerians are between ages 0 to 24, as the country’s population hits 195.9 million. In its UNFPA state of world population report, with the theme: […]
Government
Lagos Assembly Tells PSP Operators Disengaged By Ambode To Resume ‘Full Operations’
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday mandated local government executives in the state to call on the Private Sector Partnership (PSP) operators in their areas to resume picking up refuse. Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor […]
Issues/Policy
As Canada Legalises Indian Hemp, Stores Run Out of Supplies In 24 Hours | Punch
Stores selling Indian hemp in Canada have announced that they ran out of supplies within 24 hours of its legalisation. Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the […]
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AUDIO: Morning Digest with Kenneth Okolugbo
Issues/Policy
Atiku/Obi PDP Ticket: Wrong To Turn It Into Yoruba/Igbo Affair – Ikokwu By Clifford Ndujihe
SECOND Republic politician and President of the Pan –Ndigbo Nigerian Forum, PNF, Chief Guy Ikokwu has picked holes in the hue and cry trailing the emergence of Mr. Peter Obi as the vice presidential candidate […]
Politics
Why Atiku-Obi Ticket Excites Nigerians By Ikechukwu Amaechi
IN the lead up to the 1964 British general election, former Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, who became leader of the Labour Party after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963, coined the famous phrase, […]
Issues/Policy
The Atiku-Obasanjo Offensive By Gambo Dori
MANY of us had resigned ourselves to the second term of Muhammadu Buhari as President, until the emergence of Abubakar Atiku as candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A year ago, whenever I […]
Politics
Tinubu’s Feudalisation of Lagos State Politics By Olu Fasan
Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has been thrown under the bus. He will not serve a second term in office not because the people of Lagos state rejected him in an election but because […]
CRIME
The 32 Most Corrupt Countries In The World | Pulse
The World Economic Forum on Tuesday released its annual corruption index as part of its “Global Competitiveness Report.” Using a methodology linked to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, the WEF ranked 140 countries’ level of […]
Technology
First Galaxy Note 10 rumours Tip Biggest and Baddest Display Yet
The Galaxy Note 9 may have only just been released, but that doesn’t mean speculation isn’t already rife about Samsung’s 2019 flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 10. And according to the first batch of Note […]
News
Former UK University Student ‘Cut Up Jamal Khashoggi’s Body With Bone Saw While Listening To Music To Drown Out Screams’
A former UK student has been named as a suspect in the disappearance and torture of missing Saudi Arabian journalist. Jamal Khashoggi was last seen inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul earlier this month. […]
Life Style
Youth Less Violent In Countries Where Spanking Is Banned, Study Finds
Countries that have banned spanking or other forms corporal punishment are less likely to have violent youth, a study has shown. Findings from the study led by Frank Elgar, associate professor in the Institute for […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari, Leah, Hauwa and Other Hostages By Paul Onomuakpokpo
With the murder of Hauwa Liman, we have once again been starkly reminded of our lack of governmental bulwark against the savagery of those who are unmoored from all legal and moral boundaries in our […]
Issues/Policy
Human Rights And Post-2019 Presidency By Emmanuel Onwubiko
At the weekend, I got into a very lengthy conversation with my younger brother currently based abroad and who left Nigeria when his life became endangered by open threats made by some Islamists responsible for […]
Issues/Policy
Is the ERGP Approach On Focus? By Hassan Mohammed
Is the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari ready to walk its talk in the promise to give the Nigerian economy a new direction? This question will be answered if (or when) the Economic Recovery and […]
Food
Simple Food Rules For Healthy Living By Maje Ayida
Let me give you something to think about, and this is very important… if we took away modern society and plopped you on a deserted island, what is the #1 most important thing in your […]
Editorial
Three Trillion Naira To Save Sick Banks? | Guardian (NG)
It may be necessary for those who lead this country at all levels to freeze politics somehow and look at the governance system of the country’s Central Bank, whose role has always come under fire […]
Politics
Atiku: My Policy Document Is Ready… 40% of My Cabinet Will Be Women, Youth | TheCable
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says 40 percent of his cabinet will be made up of women and youths. The former vice-president said his policy document for Nigeria, if […]