“I wish that General Muhammadu Buhari will one day come back to rule Nigeria again”, I said to my uncle’s wife in 1996 as she regaled and beguiled me with fascinating stories of Buhari’s regime […]
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has ordered the withdrawal of the Officer in Charge of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Lagos State Police Command, Akineyem Etuk, from his beat to the command’s […]
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Grantor of Mercy All praise is for Allah. We praise Him, we seek His aid and we ask for His forgiveness. We seek Allah’s refuge from […]
The biggest controversy over the past couple of weeks has been the appointment of Commissioner Amina Zakari to chair the internal INEC committee in charge of the collation centre. The appointment immediately led to wild […]
The extant Nigerian security and law and order situation can be best described as a crisis, where the government has been unable to effectively secure lives and property. There are daily reports of killings and […]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it has received 294,851 applications in the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables into the Nigeria Police Force as the portal closes on January 11, Friday. President Muhammadu Buhari recently […]
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has begun training of its new recruits, PREMIUM TIMES has gathered. FRSC spokesperson, Bisi Kazeem, told PREMIUM TIMES in an exclusive chat Thursday night that successful candidates have been […]
EMERGING from a tumultuous 2018, Nigerians look forward to the New Year with mixed feelings. As always, an election year promises to be a volatile period for the country, invariably leading to predictions of a […]
Save for providence, a train derailment ferrying over 2,000 people to the city centre would have marked the first major disaster in the New Year in Lagos State. At about 7:15a.m. a train moving en-route […]
OUTRAGE and disbelief enveloped the country on Sunday after heavily armed soldiers invaded the Abuja head office and other outposts of the Daily Trust newspaper. Soldiers sealed off the newspaper’s offices in Maiduguri (Borno State) […]
BY endorsing a bill to fund the “completion” of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex as 2018 wound down, the Senate reminded the world how terribly ill-served Nigerians have been by their elected representatives. Passed earlier by […]
In no other facet of life is Nigeria’s underwhelming development as stark as in the rural areas. The poverty there is extreme; social infrastructure is non-existent. In the midst of the vacuous electioneering babble, a […]
What politicians have been does not reliably foretell what they may do in office. The need for them to get the votes is one reason. So, what appeals to voters is what they say. How […]
“Voters need to believe the probity of the democratic process itself, and in the long run, all Nigerians win with free and fair elections” –Carl Levan, Op-ed page, New York Times, December 6, 2018. All […]
Another cycle of presidential election debate in Nigeria holds on January 19, 2019, on the home stretch to the February 16, 2019 presidential election. Presidential election debate is an American innovation which was formalised with […]
Each time we run into stormy weathers of life and fall on hard times, it’s natural to look to people around us for succour. If our kith-and-kin can’t offer a bailout, we are out of […]
There is a quip from the Holy Bible, to be found in the Book of Psalms 37: 25. It says that ‘I was young and now I’m old, but I have never seen the righteous […]
Though I had some pressing issues that were yet to be resolved, my spirit was high as I drove that October afternoon. This was probably due to the music from the car cassette player and […]
Is ASUU your ASUU or is ASUU our ASUU? This question recently vociferated from my subconscious place very vociferously to the extent that I even seemed to feel inside me a vociferous mob. Oyibo! Akukwo! […]
“The parable of those who take protectors other than the Almighty is like that of a spider who builds for itself a dwelling, and surely the weakest of all dwellings is the dwelling of a […]
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