The Lagos State Government has banned the operation of motorcycles (popularly called Okada) and tricycles (popularly known as Keke) across the state. Gbenga Omotosho, the commissioner for information and strategy, in a statement Monday said […]
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, an Abuja resident, to death for killing Bilyamin Mohammed Bello, her husband. Bello, nephew of Haliru Mohammed, a former national chairman of the […]
Following weeks of speculation and months of tussles between ride-hailing platforms and regulatory authorities, the Lagos State Government has officially announced the ban of all forms of motorcycles and tricycles in major parts of Lagos […]
Damini Ogulu, Afrofusion sensation better known as Burna Boy, has lost out in his category to Angelique Kidjo, a Beninese singer-songwriter, at the 2020 Grammys. She was announced the winner of the ‘Best World Music […]
The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, recently addressed journalists, including PREMIUM TIMES Business Editor, Bassey Udo, on the activities of his office in 2019, particularly the reforms to curb corruption in the system. […]
The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) said it is putting together a national biosecurity response strategy to organisms that can cause harm to humans and the environment. Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Dr. Rufus […]
Prophecy as defined by Thomas Aquinas is; the certain foretelling of a future event by a person supernaturally informed of it and supernaturally moved to announce it. This, he added, comes in two ways; prophesy […]
If there’s anything successive Lagos governments are reputed for, it is that penchant of always searching for ways to ameliorate whatever problems are confronting the Lagos residents. Indeed in the entire landscape called Nigeria, it […]
Predictions, well, some call it prophecies, are not an exact science. Is it an art? Or a spiritual gift? Albert Einstein once said that ‘occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction […]
The statistics tell it all. The government is in dire financial straits. This year’s budget deficit is put at $6.03 billion and will be financed by both domestic and external loans. The government has in […]
The Board of Brooks and Blake Nigeria Limited, a leading perception and marketing communications consulting firm, has announced the elevation of Ms Olufunmilayo Onajide to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, as the company […]
NBA legend Kobe Bryant has passed away. He was 41. Bryant was among five people aboard a helicopter that crashed in Southern California on Sunday morning. His daughter Gianna, 13 was also on board. The […]
Where is our shame? Where is our collective responsibility? Allah Ya Isa! Last month, social media has been awash with multiple scenes, most from Northern Nigeria, of mile-long queues of hungry young children—Almajirai or Almajiri […]
Ken Saro-Wiwa in one of his favorite Poems wrote: Keep out of prison, Don’t get arrested anymore But while the land is ravaged And our pure air poisoned When streams choke with pollution Silence would […]
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – A line from the play, King Henry the Fourth (Part Two), by William Shakespeare. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ex- two-term Lagos governor and chieftain of the […]
The decision by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to suspend use of the National Identity Number (NIN) for registration of candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is not enough. NIN […]
Years back when I was transferred from Edo State to Ibadan as the Oyo State Correspondent of the Punch newspaper, the gut reaction of my ‘concerned’ colleagues was that I had been taken to Golgotha, […]
No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. No army can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is as […]
South Africa has a land area of 471,445 sq. miles. The population is about 55 million of which 80% are Black and 8.4% are white. The rest are Coloured and Asians and they do not […]
My great-uncle, Ibrahim Dada, whom I grew to know as my paternal grandmother’s oldest brother was already aged, tired, weak and blind in the mid 80s. In 1986/7, he told me he was 16 years […]
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