Issues/Policy
Bahamas, Mon Amour By Minabere Ibelema
The images coming out of The Bahamas evoke those of Hiroshima. The one difference is that one was devasted by an atomic bomb and the other by a hurricane. And one was charred and the […]
Year: 2019
Editorial
Africa After Robert Mugabe By Sonala Olumhense
In two days, the 74th United Nations General Assembly will open in New York. One week later, on September 24, the general debate, the ritual at which the heads of state and government empty into […]
Editorial
Punch: Stamp Out Cheating In Examinations
WHEN the National Examinations Council released the results of its June/July 2019 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, many missed the big story of the spike in the recorded incidents of cheating. Of the total 1,151,016 […]
CRIME
Nigerian Musician Dammy Krane To Be Arraigned Monday, Risks 3 Years’ Imprisonment
Nigerian musician, Johnson Oyindamola, aka Dammy Krane, risks three years in jail as the Zone 2 Police Command is set to arraign him on Monday, Punch reports. According to the newspaper, Dammy Krane will be […]
Business
Electricity Tariff Increase: Nigerians To Pay Over N1 Trillion In 2020
Consumers will pay about N1.52 trillion for power next year, going by the recent tariff increase approved by the Federal Government, investigations have shown. This is about N600 billion higher than the estimated N900 billion […]
Government
Nigerian Government: Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa And The Victims By Evans Ufeli Esq
In light of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, the Nigerian Government must first deploy adequate logistic facilities to rescue Nigerians left in South Africa and insist that those killed and the properties destroyed, […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari, Where Are Sowore, Dadiyata, Ohimai? By Fredrick Nwabufo
Democracy is freedom; freedom to exist and to exercise the full catalogue of natural rights. The quality of democracy in an ordered system is assessed by the quantity and level of freedom the citizens enjoy. […]
Issues/Policy
A Toast To Willie Boy at 70 By Babafemi Ojudu
Our teacher is 70. Yes he is. See how time flies. So that young man of the cherubic appearance that welcomed us into Ife in 1980 is now of the clan of elders. When a […]
Video
New Face of Campaign Against Domestic Violence In Lagos By Omobolanle Ogunmola
Across the world, domestic violence is clearly making the headlines. Whilst women, men, boys and girls can be victims of domestic violence, women and girls are disproportionately affected. Domestic violence occurs across the world, in […]
Issues/Policy
Toilet Worth ‘N1.8bn’ Stolen From British Palace
A solid 18-carat gold toilet, called ‘America’, has been stolen from Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace in Britain. While The Telegraph reported that the unique solid gold toilet is valued at £4.8m (an estimated N1.7bn), […]
Politics
Avoiding Judgment Debt Doomsday By Simon Kolawole
Scary. That, in one word, captures my conclusion after reading a chapter on judgment debts in Mr Mohammed Bello Adoke’s book, Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s Former Attorney-General, which is due for public release […]
Government
Ikoyi Immigration Office Begins Saturday Operations
The Ikoyi office of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has included Saturday in its workdays to meet the demands of passport applicants. This means that applicants can now visit the Ikoyi office to apply and […]
News
‘World’s Oldest Mother’, 74, Is In Intensive Care Alongside Her Husband, 78, Who Had a Heart Attack After Birth of Twin Girls In India | Daily Mail
A woman and her husband are both in intensive care after she gave birth to twin girls at 74 years old in a ‘medical miracle’. It was reported that Erramatti Mangayamma – known as the […]
News
Crowds Shun Robert Mugabe’s Funeral: Stadium is Less Than Half Full | Daily Mail
It was meant to be a resounding send-off for Zimbabwe’s founding father, the freedom fighter who liberated the southern African nation from white-minority rule. But Robert Mugabe’s transformation from national hero to despotic tyrant was […]
Health
Fears of infections pandemic grow after NINETEEN new superbugs are discovered in UK | Daily Mail
Nineteen new forms of lethal superbugs have been found in the UK, a major report reveals today. Officials said germs which attack the blood, kidneys and bowels had evolved ways to breach the last line […]
Politics
No Vuvuzela For The President!, By Banji Ojewale
We drive our crying friends and neighbours into more agony when we don’t moderate our wild festivities on victory day. No doubt, there will always be losers and winners in any contest. But the winner […]
Issues/Policy
Kinship With Robert Mugabe, By Owei Lakemfa
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a normal human being. But to the West, he was an enigma. He was born in racist Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and spoke up against racism and for democracy. That made […]
CRIME
PREMIUMTIMES EXCLUSIVE: LASU Enforces Secrecy Oath On Staff After PREMIUM TIMES Exposed Fraud
After a series of reports by PREMIUM TIMES detailing alleged fraud at the Lagos State University (LASU), the management of the university has issued directives that all staff must sign an “oath of secrecy”. The […]
News
Your Appointment Is A Test, Pass It! Ezekwesili Tells BudgIT’s Seun Onigbinde
Ex-education Minister and presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria in the 2019 general election, Oby Ezekwesili, has encouraged Seun Onigbinde to prove his mettle in his new role as the Technical Adviser […]
Issues/Policy
Revisiting “Zoning And Rotation” By Edwin Madunagu
At the end of the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 – January 1970), and in preparation for a possible return to civilian rule, the ruling class established – or rather, creatively adapted – the dual […]