Editorial

“As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix […]

When President Muhammadu Buhari stated the other day that N1 trillion had been wasted on constituency projects in the last 10 years with no direct bearing on the lives of ordinary Nigerians, he was only […]

Heedless of dire warnings and stark reality of an unsustainable overhang, President Muhammadu Buhari is bent on digging the country into a new debt trap. Should the National Assembly accede to his renewed request to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The need to properly and effectively police the nation according to global best practices came to the fore again last week when South-south governors, the Police High Command and other stakeholders held a one-day security […]

The move against noise pollution by the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) cannot come too soon and it receives our full approval. If the state is to deserve its appellation as a centre of […]

NIGERIA’S seemingly inexorable descent into anarchy appears to have acquired a fast and furious pace with the horrendous burning to death last week of a woman by a mob in Kogi State. Salome Abuh, 60, […]

THE announcement by the Osun State Government that it is seeking private investors for its dead duck airport project reopens the debate on appropriate priorities for the country’s fiscally fragile states. With the inevitable failure […]

RECENT events have forced the country to face up to the growing menace of “constituency projects” and how legislators contribute to impoverishing Nigerians. President Muhammadu Buhari railed against the squandering of over N1 trillion in […]

Increasing incidents of fire disasters reported across the country in recent times should serve as a fresh impetus for the mounting of safeguards against the phenomenon, both at home and in public places. The fact […]

FOR the umpteenth time, Nigeria’s democratic institution on Saturday faced a critical test of integrity, but it ended in a crushing debacle. The elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states were an opportunity to showcase the […]

THE Senate slid further into impropriety last week when it ushered a monstrous anti-hate speech bill through its first reading. Draconian and nebulous, it prescribes harsh punishment, ranging from five years’ imprisonment to execution, for […]

THE frequency of pipeline vandals siphoning fuel has become a source of worry. One of the seven tankers involved in a recent raid, however, caught fire while stealing from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation facility […]

A curious development occurred in Nigeria’s presidency the other day when an important bill relating to the deficiency in the oil industry was signed into law in a foreign country. Called the Deep Offshore and […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State the other day issued a statement of his personal rejection of being addressed as “His Excellency.” While this is a welcome departure from a culture sustaining the penchant for […]

A report the other day that only four of the 36 states in the country are viable is disturbing and demands urgent action of the governments and people of Nigeria to cause a change in […]