Issues/Policy

The lack of passport booklets at the nations’ immigration offices has reached a crisis point and something needs to be done urgently, without further delay, to redress the ugly situation. It pains that Nigerians have […]

Sixty years after the annus mirabilis in which 17 African countries gained their independence in 1960, the three main challenges facing the continent in 2020 will be development, debt, and dictatorships. Autocratic rule will continue […]

The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, recently addressed journalists, including PREMIUM TIMES Business Editor, Bassey Udo, on the activities of his office in 2019, particularly the reforms to curb corruption in the system. […]

The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) said it is putting together a national biosecurity response strategy to organisms that can cause harm to humans and the environment. Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Dr. Rufus […]

Prophecy as defined by Thomas Aquinas is; the certain foretelling of a future event by a person supernaturally informed of it and supernaturally moved to announce it. This, he added, comes in two ways; prophesy […]

If there’s anything successive Lagos governments are reputed for, it is that penchant of always searching for ways to ameliorate whatever problems are confronting the Lagos residents. Indeed in the entire landscape called Nigeria, it […]

Where is our shame? Where is our collective responsibility? Allah Ya Isa! Last month, social media has been awash with multiple scenes, most from Northern Nigeria, of mile-long queues of hungry young children—Almajirai or Almajiri […]

Ken Saro-Wiwa in one of his favorite Poems wrote: Keep out of prison, Don’t get arrested anymore But while the land is ravaged And our pure air poisoned When streams choke with pollution Silence would […]

Years back when I was transferred from Edo State to Ibadan as the Oyo State Correspondent of the Punch newspaper, the gut reaction of my ‘concerned’ colleagues was that I had been taken to Golgotha, […]

No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. No army can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is as […]

South Africa has a land area of 471,445 sq. miles. The population is about 55 million of which 80% are Black and 8.4% are white. The rest are Coloured and Asians and they do not […]

My great-uncle, Ibrahim Dada, whom I grew to know as my paternal grandmother’s oldest brother was already aged, tired, weak and blind in the mid 80s. In 1986/7, he told me he was 16 years […]

Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl among 112 students kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe, has given birth in captivity. In a tweet confirming the development, Ahmad Salkida, journalist with access to the insurgents, said […]

At this time 50 years ago, Nigerians were euphoric. The bloody and grittily fought civil war had just ended to everyone’s relief. The then head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, promptly declared that there was […]

A long-overdue policy, the Federal Road Safety Corps has iterated its intention to implement the relevant laws on the abuse of sirens, convoys, escort vehicles and other road traffic infractions in the country. The corps […]

One thing we must not deny ourselves is the right to know the history of our nation. History is such an important subject that only idiots or clowns will not appreciate its significance. Many young […]

Continued from yesterday To explain what I mean by “Minimum Continuity” in the execution of RD’s general programme we may refer to three items in the programme. These are: “Strengthening the vanguard’s capacity to ensure […]