Issues/Policy
Buhari and the 2019 Challenge, By Festus Keyamo
My message to all those teeming supporters who did it in 2015 for our president is that you do not abandon a ship with which you set sail midway. Our race is not a 100-metre […]
Year: 2018
Politics
Ekweremadu Briefs Osinbajo On Senate Mace Theft
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has briefed Vice president Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday invasion of the Senate chamber by thugs reportedly led by a suspended senator, Ovie Omo-Agege. Mr. Ekweremadu told State House correspondents […]
Government
Health Workers Strike: Nigerian Govt Threatens ‘No Work No Pay’ Rule || PremiumTimes
The federal government says it will invoke the ‘no work no pay rule’ rule if the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) persist in their strike, which has crippled health care delivery in parts of the […]
Politics
APC Fixes May 14 For Convention
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday announced that its National Convention to elect officers for a new term in the party’s leadership would hold on May 14. According to schedule of activities released by […]
CRIME
Police Arrest Senator Omo-Agege For Involvement in Mace Theft
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has been arrested by the Police for his complicity in the theft of the mace of the Nigerian Senate. The Senator representing Delta central was seen being ushered out of the National […]
Economy
Three Reasons Nigeria Is The Toughest Country To Govern By Ernest Danjuma Enebi
Much has been said about the meteoric rise of Rwanda from the ashes of civil war to its capital Kigali being named the most beautiful and the greenest city in Africa by the United Nations. […]
Travel/Destination
To Abuja and Back By Patrick Dele Cole
The flight was scheduled to leave at 7 a.m. I left home at 5:15 a.m. with my driver and ‘ManFriday’ PA. As we drove towards the airport toll gate, the long dispute as to who […]
Issues/Policy
2019 Elections: Nigeria’s Youth Arise By Matthew Ozah
The way Nigeria is run since the advent of democratic rule in 1999 and especially the current administration should worry everyone who cares about the nation’s future and generations yet unborn. Indeed, the situation is […]
News
Former US First Lady Barbara Bush Dead At 92
Former US first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92, triggering an outpouring of praise for the matriarch of a Republican family once at the apex of American politics. Barbara and George […]
Security
US Plans To Send American ‘IS Fighter’ To Third Country
The US government intends to hand over to a third country an American citizen captured in Syria allegedly fighting for the Islamic State group, rather than present him to the US justice system, a court […]
Government
Muslim Group Demands Withdrawal of N100 Notes Printed Under Jonathan
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has asked the federal government to withdraw from circulation, the N100 notes printed during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. In a statement by Ishaq Akintola, its director, the […]
Politics
What’s The Matter With Nigerian Politicians? By Tabia Princewill
EVERY generation of Nigerians has heard this question asked in one form or the other and felt the intense frustration or anger it expresses. Why a country so blessed with talented individuals who find success […]
YOUTH Matters
Youth Candidates: Promoting Competence Over Hype By Tabia Princewill
WE are easily taken in by trends and “hype” in this country, rarely do we stop to examine things and to see what lies beneath the surface. Encouraging the voices of young people, of women, […]
Politics
Now The President Wants Four More Years By Rotimi Fasan
WHILE the venue he chose to make the announcement might have come to many as a surprise, certainly not the news that President Muhammadu Buhari would be running for a second term. For many months […]
Government
Have Rethink On Law Against Same Sex Marriage, PM May Tells Nigeria, Others | Vanguard
We’ll not pre-empt Buhari’s reaction — Ja’afaru As CAN, PFN kick By Sam Eyoboka, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Luminous Jannamike ABUJA—BRITISH Prime Minister, Theresa May, has told Nigeria and other Commonwealth nations to have a rethink […]
Government
Soon, It’ll Be The Right of Every Nigerian To Own Prepaid Meter | TheCable
A bill seeking to prohibit the issuance of estimated electricity bill to electricity consumers in the country has passed second reading at the house of representatives. The Electric power sector reform act (amendment bill), sponsored […]
Issues/Policy
All Said, Why Should I Vote Out Buhari? By Peter Claver Oparah
As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its knees, vandalized and wrecked it and left it for dead before 2015 are busy trying to weave a comeback mantra that will help them access power […]
Issues/Policy
Chibok Girls’ Four Years In Captivity | Punch
The global outpouring of outrage and the social media interest spawned by the audacious abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School in the rustic town of Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014 […]
Security
Boko Haram: No Amnesty For Mass Murderers | Punch
HAVING, in his own opinion, “technically” defeated the Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari and some interest groups are anxious to grant amnesty to “repentant” insurgents. De-radicalisation, amnesty and reconciliation are, indeed, useful tools applied […]
Politics
Did Nigerians Truly ‘Clamour’ For Buhari’s Return? By Sam Bolaji
Although people had speculated widely that President Muhammadu Buhari through his body language, would seek re-election in 2019, the President had kept mute on the matter till the early hours of Monday, April 9, 2018 […]