Issues/Policy

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 […]

Bill Gates, Wuhan Laboratory, 5 G- Connections, the US Military, Big Pharmaceutical Companies, and our own home-spawned twists have all become clichés in conspiracy theories around COVID-19. Since the invasion of the human race with […]

The steady decline in voter turnout in Nigeria remains a cause for concern and calls to question the nation’s 21 years of uninterrupted democracy. After six circles of general elections, citizens are yet to trust […]

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, has told the leadership of the National Assembly to reverse the elongation of service and retirement age of workers in the federal […]

Last week, we highlighted some words prone to misspelling due to mispronunciation. Among them, interestingly, are pronunciation, misspelling, especially and privilege. Today, we shall conclude the topic by looking at other similar terms. The first […]

ASSAULT on women has increasingly become a social epidemic in the country. One of its latest victims, Tolu Adesh, had a rough deal in the hands of an irresponsible local government official in Ogun State, […]

She is the final handiwork of creation. Divinely chiselled with total attentiveness, Beki personifies charm, class and candour. No man looks at Beki in a hurry. At the sight of Beki, eyes brighten, gaze and […]

About a fortnight ago, we received the shocking news that the Nigerian High Commission staff buildings in Accra were levelled to the ground by a Ghanaian businessman, claiming that the edifice had been erected on […]