Issues/Policy

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 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his new year pledge to reform Nigeria’s electoral process, but he should have gone further to admit that the exercise through which he was re-elected to a second term […]

In December 2018, Boko Haram insurgents pulled a blitzkrieg on military formations in Baga, Borno state, sacking the headquarters of the multinational joint task force and taking over the place (briefly). The group steadied its […]

After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went undercover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward admission, as a patient of […]

Nigerian Ports Authority on Friday revealed that measures have been put in place to tackle congestion at the Lagos Port Complex. The General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications of NPA, Mr Adams Jatto disclosed this […]

The federal government has ordered stoppage of salaries of lecturers and all workers of tertiary institutions who are not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), TheCable can report. In a letter […]

The news of the murder of the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, is unfortunate. Andimi had been abducted earlier in the month when […]

Lagos is ready to take-on the world with the digitisation of basic schools’ curriculum and deployment of modern techniques in teaching to maximise learning in all state-owned primary schools. Before this much attention on education, […]

The need to curb illegal money in Nigeria’s election campaign cannot be overstated, especially considering that the problem is central to elitist corruption. Therefore, as a president whose sole claim to power was to fight […]

It is extremely difficult for me to embark on this project – writing on the man Dr. Bukar Usman, an enigma and a colossus after many prolific writers have also copiously written about him. It […]

A few days after the launch of the South-West security outfit codenamed “Operation Amotekun” (Leopard), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Tuesday, 1January 14, 2020, swiftly declared the outfit […]

After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went under cover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward admission, as a patient of the […]

Mohammed Bello Adoke, the former attorney-general of the federation, says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) desperately manufactured evidence to implicate him in the bribery allegations over the Malabu/OPL 245 transaction. The senior advocate […]