NIGERIA’s notoriously inefficient electricity industry has degenerated into a constant source of fatalities. To substantiate this, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has just given an insight into the niggling safety millstone blighting the industry, stating […]
As the relevant agencies set about cobbling a new revenue sharing formula, Nigeria has a fresh opportunity to infuse modern scientific acumen into its public financial management. While the state governors are rightly pressing for […]
Activities of Islamist terror groups in recent months have shown that the Nigerian authorities still have a lot on their plate as they seek to end 10 years of bloody insurgency that has spawned so […]
“There is a structural defect. It is even worth reconstructing the whole of the structure” –Mr Rawlings Agada, Director of Information, National Assembly (The PUNCH, Monday, December 30, 2019) “I am a member of the […]
Like before, uncertainties and tensions continue to envelope Nigerians as they throng churches and mosques to thank ‘God’ for making them “crossover” into 2020. Being thankful to the Supreme Being is anchored on the fact […]
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has asked the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to complete the Trade Fair-LASU Gate portion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway within eight months. Sanwo-Olu gave the directive during an inspection of […]
Dear Evangelist Temilolu, While wishing you a happy New Year, I write to complement Mr Olaseile’s words of appreciation to you in the last edition of Saturday PUNCH. He has said it all. Many thanks […]
“The Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, H.E. Chief Timipre Sylva has declared 2020 as the year of Gas for the Nation”, the news piece started. What amazing news! And certainly long overdue. As […]
The Error Called First Fruit Offering. Some denominational preachers require their subjects ( I used the word “subjects deliberately) to give a first fruit offering. First fruit according to them could mean any or all […]
The long history of smuggling of legal and illegal items across Nigeria’s artificial and often porous borders is pervasive and well known. To curb the flooding of the Nigerian market with good, check smuggling and […]
The Muslim Rights Concern has claimed that Christians in Nigeria enjoy more holidays than Muslims in the country. MURIC made this assertion in a statement released on Friday by its Director, Ishaq Akintola, in reaction […]
This is the year 2020 we spoke of many years ago — the year Nigeria set to be one of the top 20 economies in the world. President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All […]
Bode George, former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has indicated interest to contest as president in 2023. The Pathfinder Consortium, a group led by Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, George’s special adviser, made the […]
What recently happened in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka over the palaver of Witches and their Witchcraft parodies a similar but more macabre tragedy in history which led to the eclipse and final dissolution of […]
It is in the nature of human societies for minions to feel morally bound to please the oga at the top. This is called loyalty. It obliges the minions to hunt for the enemies of […]
Not long ago Yinka Odumakin, a columnist of Vanguard, reported JP Clark’s query relating to our country-people’s attitude to reading. JP Clark, one of our super eminent and super illustrious professors, writers and intellectuals, queried […]
The dying days of 2019 saw my passage to the East, Onitsha, in Anambra State, precisely. Was I looking for the wise men from the East, who had brought gifts to the baby Jesus born […]
A crucial phase for Lagos State in the past year was the change in political leadership that ushered in Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu and Dr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat as governor and deputy governor respectively. Central […]
Data from the US travel and tourism office shows a 21 per cent drop in the number of Nigerians travelling to the country, the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of 2019 […]
An efficient transportation system and infrastructure is one of the most fundamental structures for any nation’s economic progress. In this report, BENJAMIN ALADE x-rays 2019 in retrospect and stakeholders’ expectations in the New Year. It […]
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