The Lagos State Government says it will collaborate with stakeholders in the academics in a bid to sustain the traffic laws in the state. Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Ladi Lawanson during the courtesy call on […]
Elections will be held in 2019. That simple statement of fact ought not to send shivers down the spines of anybody. But, it’s scary going by the way and manners elections usually take shape in […]
Employees of the defunct Nigeria Airways, who worked in the United Kingdom and Ghana, got their full entitlements when the airline was liquidated but their Nigerian counterparts were not paid, the Federal Government announced on […]
LAST week, President Muhammadu Buhari provoked public ire when he recalled the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, who was suspended over alleged corruption by the Minister of Health, […]
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) says the creation of state police will assist in tackling the high rate of insecurity in the country. Speaking on Monday at the end of the national summit on security […]
The first generation of voters born under a civilian administration, and who have not tasted a day of military rule ever in this country, will cast their ballot at the 2019 presidential election. They, and […]
Just when I thought that I had made my final contribution to the controversy over cattle colonies (see “No, no to cattle colonies”, The PUNCH, January 30, 2018), two recent developments have made it necessary […]
As the four-year mandate given to the Buhari administration in 2015 draws gradually towards an inglorious end, and the many incalculable prospects of 2019 are throwing up the strangest of political permutations in the polity, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to fish out the mysterious ”snake or snakes” that ate N36 million belonging to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Makurdi, Benue State. Giving […]
The Lagos Elders Council has appealed to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) to reverse the new rate at the Lekki Toll Gate in the interest of motorists and commuters plying […]
Lagos, with its huge population, has a peculiar transportation challenge, which various administrations since 1999 have tried to tackle through enactment of regulatory frameworks.For instance, in 2012, former Governor Babatunde Fashola signed into law the […]
UNWIELDY, disorganised and vulnerable to security breaches, Nigeria’s data landscape needs to be streamlined. Thankfully, it seems the government has finally realised the dangers of proliferation of data. For some time, public and private organisations […]
Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, Yusuf Ali and Ifedayo Adedipe, have criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for reinstating the hitherto suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf. The PUNCH […]
I first met Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode early May 2014 somewhere in Victoria Island, Lagos. We had just launched TheCable online newspaper. We ran a story — “The man who would be next Lagos governor” — […]
First was former President Obasanjo’s letter asking PMB not to contest in 2019 citing many reasons why he has to leave the exalted office. It was quickly followed by another letter from former dictator Ibrahim […]
The federal government will re-introduce excise duty on some goods manufactured in the country and excisable imported goods in line with the directive of ECOWAS council of ministers. In a letter addressed to President Muhammadu […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have submitted a new request for an increase of the national minimum wage above N56,000 per month to the tripartite committee on minimum wage. […]
A former Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, has lamented that democracy has failed to deliver freedom to Africans. He also says African leaders have failed to understand that regular, free and […]
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has said that he is in support of the decision of the National Assembly to re-arrange the order of elections in 2019. The two chambers of the National […]
By Nneka Okumazie The biggest problem Nigeria has is lack of good focus. There is no focus on major or simple problems, everything that is a debate or topic or focus or projects is not […]
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