Editorial
Suits: The Nollywood Factor | Punch
It’s hard to imagine any regular TV viewer who hasn’t heard of Suits. However, for the purposes of the few who may belong to that category, Suits is a legal drama series created by Aaron […]
Year: 2018
Politics
I Have No Regrets Endorsing Atiku — Sheikh Gumi
Popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said he had no regrets playing a role to reconcile former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and his ex-vice, Atiku Abubakar, noting that those complaining on social media were […]
Politics
2019: Buhari Wrecked Nation’s Economy, Atiku’ll Fix It — PDP By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will turn around the country’s economy wrecked by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government through creation of qualitative employment for the youths, if elected in the […]
Issues/Policy
Drug Abusers Deserve A Second Chance From UNILAG, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
Withdrawing the admission of drug-positive fresh students won’t help UNILAG realise its ambition of ensuring that its students are “good products of the larger society”. To think it would, in the first place, gives UNILAG […]
Issues/Policy
Ooni of Ife, Oba Ogunwusi And The Origin of Religions By Ridwan Jamiu
Recently, a BBC video interview with Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife went viral on the social media. His Royal Highness pontificated in the interview that Yorubaland is the origin of Islam and […]
Law
EXCLUSIVE: CBN Does NOT Have Power To Sanction Us, MTN Tells Court | TheCable
MTN Nigeria has told the federal high court sitting in Lagos that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not have the power to impose sanctions on it, according to court papers sourced by TheCable. […]
Issues/Policy
Silence Is Not An Option: Protecting Freedom Of Expression In Nigeria By Osai Ojigho
On 28 February 2018, officials of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) arrested and detained for seven days, Tony Ezimakor, the Abuja Bureau Chief of Daily Independent Newspaper for publishing a story on Boko Haram […]
Banking
HEDA Petitions Consumer Council Over ‘Fraudulent’ Bank Charges | SaharaReporters
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre has asked the Consumer Protection Department to review and investigate recent growing concerns over fraudulent and ridiculous financial service charges and deduction rates, especially in the […]
Issues/Policy
PremiumTimesEXCLUSIVE: Saraki’s Anointed Candidate For Kwara Governorship, Razak Atunwa, Skips NYSC, Forges Certificate
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State in the forthcoming general elections, Razak Atunwa, did not participate in Nigeria’s compulsory national youth service scheme, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. Instead, […]
Government
On the New National Minimum Wage, By Uddin Ifeanyi
…the rate of increase in the reward to labour suggested by the proposed minimum wage is clearly higher than the growth in domestic productivity. So, it is fair to assume that without improvements to the […]
Editorial
Time To Sell Ajaokuta Steel Company | Guardian (NG)
A report the other day that the Federal Government was ready to offer the Ajaokuta Steel Mill for sale to finance 2018 budget is curiously casual and contemptuous. According to the report, the proposed sale […]
Religion
Human Suffering and the Sacrifices of Righteousness By Femi Aribisala
The man died in the hospital after a long and protracted illness. The doctor conducted a post mortem examination and concluded that the cause of his death was cancer. But the word of God is […]
Business
MultiChoice: 25 Years In Nigeria By Tunmise Badru
Nigerians aged 35 and above are unlikely to have problems recalling what constituted our entertainment staple before 1993. It broadly consisted of movie releases at 10pm after the news bulletin on national or state-owned television, […]
Editorial
The Sordid Jamal Khashoggi Affair | Guardian (NG)
The entire world woke up on 2nd October to the rude and shocking news that Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi had ‘disappeared’ while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Ankara Turkey. Khashoggi had been […]
Government
Labour Begins Indefinite Wage Strike November 6
Unless the Federal Government announces a new minimum wage, organised labour will embark on an indefinite strike from November 6, 2018. “If nothing is responsibly done by the Federal Government to meet our demands, on […]
Politics
Not Angry Enough To Challenge The Oppressor? By Hope Eghagha
The thesis of this essay arises from a cryptic Facebook message – Nigerians are not yet sufficiently angry to change their political and economic fortunes; not even the youths – which I posted 3rd of […]
Economy
Osinbajo on Challenge of Human Development in Africa By J Boima Rogers
CIn his presentation to a packed audience at the event organised by the African Studies Centre of Oxford University School of Global and Area Studies, Professor Yemi Osinbajo Nigeria’s Vice President highlighted four important areas […]
Issues/Policy
Northern Youth To Withdraw Support For Atiku Unless He Disowns Fani-Kayode, Nnamdi Kanu | SaharaReporters
The Arewa Youth Integrity Forum (AYIF), a group of youth in the north, has urged Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to distance himself from Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of […]
Issues/Policy
Letters to Atiku and Buhari (1) By Kareem Itunu Azeez
From all of us, on the cold wild streets, of Nigeria, from the longitudinal west coast, down to the eastern axis, of the lower Nigeria. From all of us, homeless but not hopeless, who in […]
Issues/Policy
An Epoch of Nigeria Federalism By Kareem Azeez Itunu
The struggles we pass through, didn’t start today. Did you know, that there was once a time in Nigeria , when things weren’t all rosy, but there was an acknowledgement of a life beyond average. […]