Issues/Policy

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 […]

In an opinion piece, titled Shaka Momodu, a columnist as hater-in-chief, presidential media adviser Femi Adesina denounces the writer for hateful articles on Buhari that are often replete with lies: For many years, week after […]

Last year October, about a week after the nation space that we have generously agreed to refer to as Nigeria, celebrated her 59th year of Independence from colonial rule, I found myself at the Athens […]

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s only Nobel Laureate has warned that the nation cannot afford to lose another 2.5 million people to war as it did 50 years ago to the Nigerian Civil War. He spoke […]

MANY Nigerians want to leave. That is why a citizen would gather a lot of money and pay a human trafficker to be taken through the horrors of the desert with the possibility of dying […]

WITH a forecast by the World Bank that Africa’s most populous country urgently requires millions of jobs to avert an implosion, it should be all hands on deck, to promote inclusive economic growth. Describing the […]