Before the nomination of commissioners in Kwara State, all of the 35 elective offices are occupied by men. The leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kwara State left women, who are more […]
LAGOS – The media was awash with report last week with a report credited to a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Moshood Oshun, in which he allegedly indicted all Nigerian politicians on […]
Nigeria is planning to build just about 2,000 homes this year, while the country needs at least 700,000 units annually to breach a huge housing deficit, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. The World Bank estimates […]
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country is not yet home and dry in food production. […]
The 2018 Graduate Skills ranking by the World Economic Forum, placed Nigeria on 135 out of 140 countries, this simply shows that most Nigerian graduates don’t have the requisite skills, experience and knowledge for the […]
At a public function organized by the government a few years ago, there was a chanced meeting between a former public servant who had been a part of the Golden age of the public service […]
It is common knowledge that the Federal Government on August 20th, 2019, ordered the closure of Nigeria’s border with the Benin Republic, citing massive smuggling activities taking place on that corridor as the reason(s). Within […]
Examination malpractice has become rampant in Nigeria; continued to degrade the standard and good quality of education of the country. The situation has become worrisome considering how the malpractice is affecting the performance of our […]
University teachers must come up with cutting-edge researches that would provide solutions to societal problems. With the socio-economic problems confronting the nation, our tertiary institutions must be able to solve organisational problems, which will invariably […]
The bell is again tolling for Nigeria with sundry calls for reform of the ailing state system by well-meaning citizens and foreign development partners. The urgency of the moment cannot be ignored with a wave […]
Full payment of the new minimum wage to Nigerian workers takes effect from April 18, 2019. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo issued the directive yesterday in Abuja. The […]
The corpses of 39 people, including a teenager, have been found in a shipping container in Essex, a town not too far from London. According to BBC, the lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from northern […]
Nigeria is now ranked 131 globally on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking, moving up by 15 places from its 2019 spot. The Bretton Wood institution released the report in the early hours […]
Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, says a committee has been set up to look into how the federal government can decongest the prisons in six months. Speaking on Wednesday at a public hearing organised by […]
Sunday Dare, minister of youths and sports, says members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will enjoy the new minimum wage. Dare disclosed this via Twitter on Wednesday evening, saying Shuaibu Ibrahim, NYSC director-general, […]
I first thought it was a joke until Fisayo Soyombo confirmed it himself. “It’s true. I’m in hiding,” he had said when asked to confirm if it was true that Nigeria’s security agencies were hunting […]
During the last third term for secondary schools in Nigeria, the first continuous assessment test was approaching, therefore, I decided to let my students air their view on a national issue; the on-going basic salary […]
The 2020 Federal Government budget was presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on 8th of October, 2019 at a time of subsisting domestic and global economic challenges. The budget is expansionary on […]
Do a country’s citizens get happier when slowly but surely propaganda is replacing essence of governance? Certainly ‘no’ you might say. But that appears to be the new face of politics in recent times as […]
My last published piece, “Revolutions that ‘fired’ young Leftists” (September 26, 2019), was actually an abridgment of what was originally planned to be a much longer essay. That longer essay would have included not only […]
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