Issues/Policy

If I’m honest, there has not been much to cheer about Nigeria in recent times. As someone who always tries to keep a positive attitude towards life — a disposition that makes me celebrate little […]

Multiple award-winning investigative journalist, ’Fisayo Soyombo, shares with TOBI AWORINDE some pivotal moments in his career You are a celebrated journalist with accolades at home and abroad. How did your journalism journey begin? The defining […]

Lawsonia inermis Linn belongs to the family Lythraceae. It could be a shrub or small tree. The older branchlets are spinescent. The leaves are opposite, elliptic to oblanceolate and glabrous. The panicle flowers are creamy-white […]

In the Punchwise column before Christmas, I expressed dread of the possible explosion of COVID-19 pandemic my hometown, Bonny. From all indications then, the island city’s usual Christmas/New Year festivities seemed set to unfold without […]

As you have probably heard, the Muhammadu Buhari government will now complete the reconstruction of the 375km Abuja-Kano Road (AKR) Project in 2023. One week ago, Funso Adebiyi, a Director of the Federal Ministry of […]

The trope of the coronavirus pandemic seemed to have reinforced racial stereotypes of Chinese people in the western world. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it, xenophobic violence over the role of China in the […]

It is my prayer for this new year to be prosperous, irrespective of the experiences and disruptions we have had in 2020; a different year by any definition, strange and challenging especially for businesses and […]

Despite our frustrations, we have shown strength in diversity more than any race in the world today. With all our wealth in the banking system taken from us and £20 handed to us after the […]

When I read the recent directives by the NCC on SIM card registration and the National Identity Number I was astounded at the willingness of those in government to place their people in danger, in […]

niranadedokun@gmail.com If you are a Nigerian, who lives in this country and places any value on your life and the lives of people around you, you should start to take precautions against COVID-19. For starters, […]

If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power. And I am […]

gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 There is nothing that has not been said about Elon Musk, especially now that he made it to the top of the list of the world’s richest. Many unsavory epitaphs have been attached […]

I have observed with great consternation, even surprise, and I’m sure you too have, that most Nigerians do not believe COVID-19 is real in spite of very compelling evidence including the spiralling infections and rising […]

For the first time in my life, I heard that some Americans were killed and the Capitol vandalised by a mob because of a presidential election. It was the kind of stories we hear from […]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, I began my own TV show on Independent Television, Abuja. The programme themed, Development Focus with Jide Ojo, is scheduled to hold every mid-week from 7 – 9:30am. On the […]

The storming of the US Capitol by a rowdy gang of irreverent domestic terrorists, comprising The Proud Boys, QANON, the Confederate fringe, the Kú Klux Klan, and other ragamuffins, is not the exact equivalent of […]

On the 17th of December, 2020, the NCDC recorded 1145 cases per day. It was the first time new cases had passed the 1000 mark. A little over a week later, South Africa became the […]

Strikingly often, government and its officials continue to assure Nigerians that education is the soul of a nation and the key to its secured future. Therefore, they are doing everything humanly possible within their powers […]