After the PDP primaries in Rivers State early last month, I asked how a Jonah Jang, a former governor of Plateau state, a current Senator from his senatorial district in a state that has seen […]
In view of last week’s routing of the Nigerian Army camp at Metele in Borno State by the Boko Haram faction of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA), which purportedly led to the killing […]
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last —Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer and politician. If we go by what our politicians (the major presidential candidates […]
… [how can] a soldier come up and say ‘I’m not well equipped’ yet you have a rifle; what do you want? You want APC, you want tanks? The basic weapon of an infantry man […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the increase in the salary of the Nigeria Police Force. He made the announcement during a meeting with security chiefs on Monday in Abuja. According to a statement by Garba […]
Some customers of commercial banks in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop charges on transactions made through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The customers, who made […]
Acetylsalicylic acid, best known as aspirin, and omega-3 fatty acids support various aspects of health, and scientists continue to uncover how these substances work. One recent study suggests that both could have an impact on […]
A report that African political leaders and their business counterparts rose from a meeting recently in Johannesburg and resolved to dismantle all disincentives to sustainable investment in the continent has raised a glimmer of hope […]
The year 2018 is on its death knell. That knelling relentlessly brings Nigerians closer to the 2019 General Elections at a pace quicker and faster than we all imagine. Therefore, one question Nigerians are already […]
Without overlooking other serious socioeconomic challenges bedeviling the nation, corruption appears to be the greatest problem confronting us today. Though neither new nor peculiar to Nigeria, it has observably flowered frighteningly in public life in […]
There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women —Kofi Annan (1938-2018), former UN Secretary-General. I am among millions of Nigerians who can’t wait for the day God will bless our […]
AS Nigerians head to the polls early next year, they should be conscious of the need to break the cycle of violence that has perpetually held the country hostage and cast a shadow on the […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo touched some raw nerves in his recent renewal of the campaign for local government autonomy in the country. He decried their loss of independence and attributed the failure to discharge their […]
Among the army of poets that Africa boasts of, Ikeogu Oke is one of the new generation wordsmiths whose repertoire of poems will captivate the mind of the most critical aesthete. A writer and former […]
But, nearly always, a Panglossian outlook means that our budgets will be underachieved annually. And in the present case, just about every revenue line fell short of expectations in the January-August period. That the Buhari […]
Ibrahim Sakaba, a lieutenant-colonel, died alongside at least 117 of his fellow soldiers following a catastrophic invasion of their base in northern Borno State on November 18. Colleagues have hailed the bravery of all the […]
Ikeogu Oke Last week, a certain friend, a northerner, mentioned to me that some djinns had – or have – been dangling on an imaginary pendulum swinging across our political landscape. To our interlocutor, who […]
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) This one might have a certificate. They call him the Evil Genius. He’s not a hunchback but he carries the burden of guilt, like Cain, everywhere he goes. He didn’t kill his […]
The PUNCH reported last week that the “Central Bank of Nigeria has injected over $10.97bn into the forex market between January and October this year, to defend the nation’s currency, the naira, against other major […]
Samson Folarin Twenty-six-year-old Benjamin had prepared himself and spent five days fasting and praying to secure a student visa at the United States’ embassy. His widowed mother had spent her savings to pay all the […]
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