Issues/Policy

Hunger stalks the land like the proverbial wounded lion, nasty, unrelenting and unrepentant. The “end hunger” protests is a child of compelling historical circumstances, a dialectical response to the excruciating material condition of not just […]

The row over Air Peace’s flight operations from the United Kingdom has taken another turn with Festus Keyamo, the Nigerian minister of aviation and aerospace development, writing to his British counterpart to lodge a formal […]

Dear local government chairpersons, I trust this message finds you well. The recent supreme court judgment has decisively ruled that local government councils in Nigeria are entitled to receive their allocations directly from the federation […]

He recently marked his 65th birthday. Precisely on 14th July, 2024, having been born on the same date in 1959. Prince Nduka Obiagbena has certainly changed the tune. Today, I celebrate my good friend Obiagbena, […]

The Paris Olympics Games, July 26 – August 11 began on a tentative note, but it has turned out to be a memorable, successful, sensational event, which not only lived up to the billing, but […]

“It is totally false to suggest, as we are apt to do, that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are corrupt because the system under which they live today […]

I can say without equivocation, that Punch offered me my best years in journalism.  I came in as a timid, innocent young man who didn’t know what an airport looked like. I left as a […]

Last week, The Central Bank of Nigeria Monetary Policy Committee increased the monetary policy rate for the umpteenth time in the last two years. This was despite public opinions against the move. The monetary policy […]

Just slightly over a week ago, the political landscape in the United States went 180 degrees with the announcement by President Joe Biden that he was withdrawing from the presidential race. Before then, Biden had […]

To assert that Lagos is a state that caters to the needs of all Nigerians is re-emphasising a fact. The deputy governor of Lagos State, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, has much to say regarding this fact […]

I grew up hating my name, Isaac, after listening to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s song, Upside Down, which he did with his American soulmate, Sandra Isidore, in 1976. Apart from his mother, the king-dethroning Madam Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti, […]

It was my strong determination this week to write in defence of the Tinubu administration that it couldn’t be behind the large scale disconnection of mobile lines as a sure channel of ensuring that those […]

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, has one straightforward advice for members of his team in the Anambra state executive council (ANSEC): “Be that one man”. The essence of this is to aim for excellence in […]

YEMEN, a West Asian country in the Arabian Peninsula, reported one million cases of cholera in March 2018. The world shook. At that time, Yemen was in civil war, leading to the Stockholm Agreement between […]

ON Friday November 18, 2011, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, called for a referendum to gauge the preference of Nigerians on the […]

Tech-wise, our younger days in the 1970s, 80s and 90s cannot be compared to these days, but they were not boring. We had no Facebook, Twitter (now X), Instagram and TikTok. We only had radio […]

Umuawulu, a sleepy settlement in Awka, the capital of Anambra State in the South-East, is the unlikely origin of one of the greatest sporting resumes ever to come out of Nigeria. In the bowels of […]

Shielded from the scorching sun by the canopy of cashew trees, Felicia Akogun sat behind a heap of cashew fruits. Although some fruits were still fresh, she was only interested in the nuts: 10 kilogrammes […]

“…. I shall have the honour and privilege to lead Starting May 29, workers will have more than a minimum wage. You will have a living wage to have a decent life to provide for […]

In an unexpected twist of global trade, many African countries find themselves in a peculiar situation: they import goods that they also export. Picture this: a farmer in Kenya grows coffee beans that are shipped […]