Editorial

THE recent disclosure by the Independent National Electoral Commission that 20 million Permanent Voter Cards, a mandatory requirement for eligibility to exercise the voting franchise during an election, have not been collected by applicants is […]

THERE is trouble in the land. Gun-toting kidnappers are running riot across the country without respect for rank or calling. Recently, on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Abia State, they stunned the country by abducting the […]

Reportedly a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emefiele’s supporters, including an association of farmers indebted to the CBN, had raised the N100 million required to obtain the relevant expression of interest […]

LIKE the apocalyptic doomsday, recent predictions by some prominent figures on the imminent spread of terrorism nationwide are coming to pass with devastating rapidity. The terrorist attacks in quick succession on the Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna Highway and […]

The controversy surrounding the recent imposition of 15 per cent National Automobile Commission (NAC) levy on imported used vehicles by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is not unexpected, given the struggling economic condition of Nigerians, […]

ALREADY ravaged by several other deadly diseases, the report of 46 cases and one death arising from the monkeypox virus this year adds to Nigeria’s daunting health challenges. As of May 29, said the Nigeria […]

With the onset of rainy season, coupled with the snail-speed with which the Lagos-Ibadan expressway reconstruction is being executed, there is serious doubt that the critical road would be completed as scheduled this year. For […]

A new revelation by the Nigerian Heart Foundation that between 30 and 40 per cent of Nigeria’s 211 million people lives with hypertension or high blood pressure is another depressing statistic. Described by the World […]

The withdrawal of the threat by kidnappers to kill passengers of the ill-fated train along Abuja-Kaduna is certainly a big relief to Nigerians, particularly the distressed relatives of the abductees. For whatever it is worth, […]

Prospective and exciting as the Lekki Deep Seaport may be in terms of revenue earning for both the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government, the project is surrounded by potentially suffocating circumstances that may […]

In taking impunity to the highest level, some students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State recently lynched one of their colleagues, Deborah Samuel, and burnt her remains in broad daylight. They […]

THE admission by the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, that fifth columnists are active in the Nigerian Armed Forces lays bare a major factor that has contributed to the prolonged war against insurgency in […]

THE decades-old crisis in Nigeria’s power sector has recently taken another turn for the worse with daily power supply averaging an embarrassing 1,393 megawatts in March. Disappointingly, this is happening seven years after the President, […]

THE revelation by the West African Examinations Council that the Sokoto and Zamfara state governments failed to register students in public schools for the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Examination (May 16 to June […]

I read with deep interest an article published in Premium Times by my predecessor in the Senate as the representative of Osun Central Senatorial District, Senator Professor Sola Adeyeye. I believe the description of him […]

BATTERED by adversity, the people of Sri Lanka are up in arms against their government. Their anger is evident in the protests that have rocked the Indian Ocean island nation since the beginning of April. […]

Unfolding obstacles to the 2023 general elections in the country are worrisome to close watchers of political development; but the signals are neither new nor insurmountable as to constitute serious threats to the conduct of […]

GODWIN Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has attempted once more to dribble Nigerians by issuing another unconvincing denial of his advertised presidential ambition. It will not fly. The reported purchase of […]

The pardon given by President Muhammadu Buhari to two former state governors who were convicted of looting public treasury is in bad taste, and makes high level mockery of government’s anti-corruption campaign. In tackling corruption […]

Warnings by some multilateral organisations over worsening food scarcity, no doubt, captured the grim picture of the food security situation in Nigeria that needs to be addressed to avert mass hunger and starvation in the […]