Issues/Policy

Judging by the garrulous grandstanding of Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, the recently sacked national chairman of the APC many are easily convinced that he was the problem at root of the crisis rocking the ruling party. […]

Two reports published shortly before the COVID-19 lockdown paint a stark picture of NNPC, the Nigerian state hydrocarbon company, as a sub-optimally governed and remarkably inefficient commercial enterprise that is also neither transparent nor accountable. […]

These are horrible times. These are horrid times. These are horrific times. And in these horrible, horrid and horrific times in our land nothing is delicately delicate in any positive usage or application of the […]

The table turned, as it often does in a world programmed to constantly remind us that the only certainty in the life of man and nations is uncertainty. You should find nothing unusual in Ibrahim […]

After several years of stomaching insolence from operatives of the executive, Nigeria’s long-suffering National Assembly last week finally mustered the courage to bite, as it sank its teeth into no less than Minister of State […]

…please let us not accord Magu the same shameless media trial, public conviction, lynching and execution of people, who were nothing but mere suspects (and thus presumed innocent), as he did with éclat and a […]

Nigeria as a developing country has come of age with the different successive government since 1960 (Both military and civilian government) and at the preliminary stage of Nigeria independence, we operated regional government, then a […]

I have, so to say, stopped watching television shortly after the outbreak of this novel COVID-19 pandemic especially when news mongers keep running into a mad rush to scoop new developments relating to CoronaVirus Disease […]

It is interesting that even now people of Ile-Ife still refers to Baba Adesoji Tadeniawo Aderemi in the present tense. It is as if one day, he would be sighted at Oke Itase or any […]

There’s an old line from a movie called Office Space — do you remember that one? — that I’ve always loved: “Every day since I began work is worse than the day before it.” That’s […]

‘’It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,’’ a source in the thick of things told me regarding the “arrest” of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman, by security operatives. […]

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) A furious storm that is likely to submerge the credibility of the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime’s claim of fighting corruption is unfolding before Nigerians. In an […]

The world is told COVID-19 is a viral infection. But the people outside the healthcare practice do not know there are viral infections, and there are viral infections. What does this mean? One can live […]

Greg Odogwu gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 It is not entirely surprising that after the article on this column last week, entitled, “Who is afraid of genetically modified mosquitoes”, the biotech company mentioned as the manufacturers of the […]

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com In the past 10 months, Karma has dealt with young Nigerians allegedly involved in transnational crimes. In August 2019, Obinwanne George Okeke, aka Invictus Obi, was arrested in Virginia by […]

Niran Adedokun nadedokun@gmail.com Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo’s insistence on holding on to his confrontation with the National Assembly is unnecessary, politically immature and unhelpful to the Buhari regime. It rubs mud on […]

Despite the unwanted presence of COVID-19 pandemic in our midst for several months now and the havoc it has done to life and living some people still remain infected by the bug of unbelief. That […]

Monday June 22, 2020 was an unusually tragic day in Lagos reinforcing the pre-existing atmosphere of multiple rape cases all over the country. On that day alone, two couples were found dead in their respective […]