Health
Limit Your Daily Sugar Intake, Love Your Body
Sugar – it is a craving most of us have. How could we not? It’s sweet and makes basically everything taste better. If you have ever tried to cut back on sugar, you know how […]
Articles by Omoniyi Osadare
Editorial
Guardian (NG): Brigadier-General Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson (1936-2019)
One of the iconic figures from the era of military administration and government in Nigeria, Brigadier-General Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson died on October 30, 2019 after 83 long years on earth. Although he served as military […]
Government
Lagos And The Prospect of Waste Free Future By Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin
Just recently, we introduced the Blue Box initiative – a waste collection programme designed to help residents sort recyclable waste from the source, that is, at the point where an item or material is considered […]
Editorial
Punch: Lagos, Amnesty Is Not The Answer
With his promise recently to grant amnesty to cultists and some criminal elements who have been wreaking havoc on the state, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, appears to have bought into the hackneyed policy […]
Editorial
Punch: Easing The Pain of Road Repairs
When it suspended rehabilitation works on the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway last week, the appeal for patience by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing was far from reassuring to commuters who had […]
Editorial
Punch: Senate’s Obsession With Zonal Commissions
Sponsors of the North-West Development Commission have resurrected their campaign by re-introducing a bill for it in the Senate. The cause is unjustifiable. The bill was passed by the last assembly, but was denied presidential […]
Editorial
Punch: World Bank’s Fresh Economic Salvo
For millions of Nigerians wallowing in economic misery, their hope of escaping from the clutches of poverty in the near future looks exceedingly bleak. Their fate appears sealed with a damning new report by the […]
Issues/Policy
Back to 1984 By Sonala Olumhense
Sonala Olumhense (Sonala.Olumhense@gmail.com) For several weeks in something that looked like a Nollywood movie, the Nigerian government flagrantly defied the courts, refusing to release political activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore. There were people who thought […]
Issues/Policy
Punch: Pardon Queen’s College Girl
Recently, a video of a woman violently confronting a security officer who turned back her daughter at the gate of Queen’s College, Lagos went viral. In the said video, the mother of the student was […]
Issues/Policy
To Borrow Or Not To Borrow? By Obadiah Mailafia
It is not easy stepping into the shoes of a highly accomplished colleague. The late Henry Boyo – economist, intellectual gadfly and entrepreneur – passed away on Monday, November 18. Unlike my humble self, Boyo […]
Issues/Policy
President Buhari and The Rule of Law By Eze Onyekpere
This is 20 years of Nigeria’s experiment with civil rule which aspires to be a full-blown democracy. The current dispensation is founded on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), being […]
Issues/Policy
2020 Budget: Ahmad Lawan Ignites Hope In National Assembly and Nigeria By Abubakar Sidiq Usman
The ninth Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made history on Thursday, December 5, with the passage of the 2020 Appropriation Bill into law, thereby fulfilling the promise of the legislature to return the […]
Life Style
Life and Times of Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke By Kazeem Ugbodaga
I remembered then, as young ministers, we would pray and cry out to God to make us like Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. Personally, I would read his books, especially ‘Evangelism by Fire,’ which captured his exploit […]
Video
Falana To DSS: You Lied On Sowore’s Re-arrest, Court Invasion |PMNews
Senior advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has stunningly revealed that the leader of the armed DSS operatives who stormed Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu’s court on Friday 6 December, to arrest Omoyele Sowore actually apologised to the […]
Video
Makoko: The Nigeria Slum That Re-lit Joshua’s Fire
Never forget where you come from. It is something that fighters, in particular, know too well. It is what gives them courage to fight, and it is where they draw strength from in moments of […]
Issues/Policy
Men’s Way By Chukwuneta Oby
tingles@punchng.com 08139149577 (SMS only) This is an exchange between a reader and me. Something I feel touches on the ‘bedroom aspect’ of most relationships of these days. Read her first: It’s about my fiance. We […]
Issues/Policy
Sowore: Nigerian Bar Association Demands Immediate Suspension Of DSS Boss | SaharaReporters
The Nigerian Bar Association has demanded the immediate suspension of the Director-General of Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, over the style used in rearresting Omoyele Sowore in court premises. Operatives of the DSS had […]
News
BREAKING: Bishop Oyedepo Tackles Buhari Again Over Citizens’ Poor Welfare
Founder and General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide popularly known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has again condemned the Nigerian Government under President Muhammadu Buhari for its failure to make the country […]
Issues/Policy
APC’s Dariye, Orji Kalu Jailed For Fraud, But Is Buhari’s Corruption War Still Against Opposition? By Fredrick Nwabufo
On June 12, 2018, Joshua Dariye, former Plateau State governor and senator, huddled in the dock awaiting the verdict of fate for pilfering N1.6bn public funds at a high court of the Federal Capital Territory. […]
Issues/Policy
Recalling Tai Solarin’s Prediction, By Edwin Madunagu
Looking now at this nearly 40-year old “exchange” between Tai Solarin and myself, it strikes me that I could myself not have realised its full import. Tai Solarin said only a Revolutionary Party could dislodge […]