Issues/Policy

What I counsel is that the executive, legislature and judiciary must wake up and smell the coffee. When they do, they will realise that people who have volunteered to provide the internal security that the […]

Apparently a young officer of the Nigerian Army at the time Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Nigerian Prime Minister from 1957 – 1966, it goes without saying that President Muhammadu Buhari must know of Balewa, […]

How much of the conversation, going forward, will benefit from the fact that the deputy governor nominee is uncommonly qualified for the function? For too long the banking sub-sector of the financial services landscape has […]

Will forgiveness follow? As they say in the Arabic speaking world: Allah yaalam, which being interpreted means Only God Almighty knows. Right now in Nigeria, an argument is raging. The young post-graduate daughter of the […]

It would have been a huge surprise if the launch of the South-West security outfit, Amotekun, had failed to generate a swirling dust of blinding controversy. The attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, […]

Since the declaration of the South Western Nigeria Security Network (AMOTEKUN) as illegal by the Federal Government, a lot of people especially from the South West, have been trying so hard to compare the outfit […]

The Miyetti Allah Kaute Hore has asked south-west governors to give up “Amotekun”, a regional security outfit. Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, had declared the security outfit as “illegal” but Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of […]

These are the official figures of the March 9, 2019, gubernatorial election in Imo State: Emeka Ihedioha (People’s Democratic Party) 273,404 votes, Uche Nwosu (Action Alliance) 190,364 votes, Ifeanyi Ararume (All Progressive Grand Alliance) 114,676 […]

There is always a huge political risk and danger whenever erratic, embattled, and paranoid leaders assume the responsibility of “protecting” their ethnicity in a multicultural country. The simultaneous emergence of Nnia Nwodo and Nnamdi Kanu […]

There is always a huge political risk and danger whenever erratic, embattled, and paranoid leaders assume the responsibility of “protecting” their ethnicity in a multicultural country. The simultaneous emergence of Nnia Nwodo and Nnamdi Kanu […]

Malami may be right from the strict position of the law, what Malami has just done however, is to also proclaim the Sharia Police and the civilian JTF illegal. He cannot legally defend their existence […]

Michael Oluronbi, a UK-based Nigerian pastor, who was recently convicted of raping six young girls and a boy, says he’s “an animal and was not meant to be human”. According to West Midland Police, Oluronbi […]

Abimbola Adelakun(aadelakun@punchng.com) Now that the Supreme Court has nullified the election of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State and declared the All Progressives Congress’ Hope Uzodinma the winner of […]

Niran Adedokun(nadedokun@gmail.com) Public discussions around the use of a presidential jet by one of the daughters of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Hanan, early this week were misdirected, in my opinion. Rather than […]

On January 3, 2020, The Osasu Show on the African Independent Television aired a documentary featuring me and a couple of others on the activities of the Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria. The documentary examined […]

The recent appeal from the Senate to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to reduce the number of security checkpoints on the federal highways should be regarded by the authorities concerned as an assignment of […]

To whom it may concern. Please treat as urgent Hello my name is Franklin. I live at Oremeji str Ekoro Road Abule Egba Lagos under your distribution area and I am very disappointed and infuriated […]

January 15, which is in about 24 hours’ time, will mark the 50th year anniversary of the Nigerian Civil War which was fought between Nigerian forces and the secessionist Biafran side led by Lt-Col. Chukwuemeka […]

The late Dr. Bekololari Ransome-Kuti had lived a life of activism. As a young medical doctor in the 1980s, he was in the forefront of the campaign of the Nigerian Medical Association for quality health […]