Without overlooking other serious socioeconomic challenges bedeviling the nation, corruption appears to be the greatest problem confronting us today. Though neither new nor peculiar to Nigeria, it has observably flowered frighteningly in public life in […]
There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women —Kofi Annan (1938-2018), former UN Secretary-General. I am among millions of Nigerians who can’t wait for the day God will bless our […]
AS Nigerians head to the polls early next year, they should be conscious of the need to break the cycle of violence that has perpetually held the country hostage and cast a shadow on the […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo touched some raw nerves in his recent renewal of the campaign for local government autonomy in the country. He decried their loss of independence and attributed the failure to discharge their […]
Among the army of poets that Africa boasts of, Ikeogu Oke is one of the new generation wordsmiths whose repertoire of poems will captivate the mind of the most critical aesthete. A writer and former […]
But, nearly always, a Panglossian outlook means that our budgets will be underachieved annually. And in the present case, just about every revenue line fell short of expectations in the January-August period. That the Buhari […]
Ibrahim Sakaba, a lieutenant-colonel, died alongside at least 117 of his fellow soldiers following a catastrophic invasion of their base in northern Borno State on November 18. Colleagues have hailed the bravery of all the […]
Ikeogu Oke Last week, a certain friend, a northerner, mentioned to me that some djinns had – or have – been dangling on an imaginary pendulum swinging across our political landscape. To our interlocutor, who […]
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) This one might have a certificate. They call him the Evil Genius. He’s not a hunchback but he carries the burden of guilt, like Cain, everywhere he goes. He didn’t kill his […]
The PUNCH reported last week that the “Central Bank of Nigeria has injected over $10.97bn into the forex market between January and October this year, to defend the nation’s currency, the naira, against other major […]
Samson Folarin Twenty-six-year-old Benjamin had prepared himself and spent five days fasting and praying to secure a student visa at the United States’ embassy. His widowed mother had spent her savings to pay all the […]
Patients around the world are suffering pain and many have died as a result of faulty medical devices that have been allowed on to the market by a system dogged by poor regulation, lax rules […]
LAST week’s “What is Adebayo Shittu still doing in government?” irked and jolted the Minister of Communications in the APC/Muhammadu Buhari administration. Having admitted that he did not observe the mandatory one-year national service administered […]
Having listened to the first radio broadcast by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and read the transcript of the his second broadcast on November 17, certain matters arising from the said […]
Ikeogu Oke, award-winning Nigerian poet, is dead. TheCable learned that Oke died on Saturday in Abuja. Until his death, he was receiving treatment at the National Hospital, FCT, for a yet to be ascertained ailment. […]
Sometime in year 2000, being his next of kin, I received a scraggly letter by post from the Nigerian Army that my younger brother Bankole, then of the Sokoto Battalion, had been killed in the […]
As the industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters its fourth week, the union has vowed not to return to class until its demands are met. This was disclosed […]
The Presidential Candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has lamented the killings of soldiers by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, saying that such does not speak well of the country’s […]
Succour has come the way of the oil and gas industry as its efforts at communicating issues to stakeholders has received a boost after a lingo compendium was reintroduced to the public with reinvigorated and […]
Boko Haram and ISWA may have won this battle, we must win the war! While the actual number of soldiers and locals killed in last week’s surprise attack on the 157 Task Force Battalion at […]
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