Issues/Policy

September is awareness month for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, a hormonal problem that interferes with a woman’s reproductive system. When you have PCOS, your ovaries are larger than normal and can have many tiny cysts that […]

A good marriage can be accomplished if you and your spouse possess some characters necessary to promote emotional stability in your marriage. One of the biggest challenges facing marriages in our society is the lack […]

As September is sickle cell awareness month, I want us to hear from other sickle warriors and read about their struggles and how they are overcoming their health challenge. Enjoy the story below. My name […]

William Bascom in his article, “The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives” ,defines myth as tales believed as true, usually sacred, set in the distant past or other worlds or parts of the world, and with […]

The Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 on regulation of non-profit-making organisations has become one of the topical issues on almost all the social media platforms in Nigeria today. But the truth is that the […]

Asset declaration is a tool used all over the world to prevent corruption and to promote a culture of accountability and transparency. In Nigeria, the constitution provides for declaration of assets by public officers with […]

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have never beaten Argentina whenever Lionel Messi is on the field. This is the only quarrel I have with the star footballer. But his incredible talent? I doff my cap. Why? As […]

It commenced as a localised endemic in Wuhan, China. From there, its mangling metastasis hit South Korea, Italy, Japan, Iran, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Few weeks after, it spiralled down into […]

Today, Nigeria is fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state; economically, our country is becoming a basket case and poverty capital of the world, and socially, we are firming up as an unwholesome […]

One beautiful evening in the month of July 2017, my humble self and other members of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) were hosted to a dinner by former President […]

The determination to prepare Nigeria for an emerging global revolution in technology showed in the reception accorded the five girls who won the World Technological innovation challenge in the United States recently. Equally re-assuring were […]

The presidential pardon granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to former Nationalist and Minister, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (1923-2010) and also to Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli (1929-1989), former Governor of the defunct Bendel state and […]

The campaigns of the first-tier contenders in the Edo governorship election have been largely ensconced in the agitprop of godfatherism. While Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of the state, claims he is wrestling against the forces […]

aadelakun@punchng.com When the latest brickbat exchange between pastors and Ifedayo Olarinde (aka Daddy Freeze) started, I simply wanted to watch how this round would play out differently from the last time. However, after reading the […]

Chief Bola Ige would have celebrated his 90th birthday last Sunday September 13, were he to be on this side of eternity. Instead, he is with the ancestors, those eternal beings that fascinated him to […]

To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with a pandemic the scale of […]

In the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, the University of Ibadan (UI), for the first time since 2016 when it started featuring in the ranking exercise, made a huge leap forward in […]

Dear Alhaji Lai Mohammed, I didn’t know I would have to comment on the state of the nation again so soon after a recent response to presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, on the courage exhibited […]