Issues/Policy

In contrast to 30 years ago, the world is a better place in consideration of almost all the metrics of human development including economic growth, healthcare, access to education, and human right. This rate of […]

ONCE AGAIN, THE POLICE IN NIGERIA HAVE BEEN TIED TO A WHIPPING POST TO BE TONGUE-LASHED FOR BEING THE MOST CORRUPT IN THE COUNTRY. They have been voted as the most corrupt in a survey […]

I have said it over and over; we are not organised and we often act on impulse. The Fulani think 50 years ahead , but we think and romanticise with yesterday. We celebrate achievements of […]

At a time when most South African middle class voters, black and white, confess that they have no party to vote for, two parties are holding their annual elective conference right now. One is the […]

Are we really practicing democracy in this country? We may borrow an answer to that question from G. K. Chesterton, who wrote: “If we really lived in a democracy, we would not be deciding what […]

‘Silence is golden at times. It’s probably the best thing to practise when an argument is going nowhere. It’s also the best policy when you don’t want to soak in the negativity of other people. […]

’Tunji Ajibade (tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657) The Nigerian storyteller, Chimamanda Adichie, received the United Nations Foundation’s Global Leadership Award lately. Congratulations, my sister. The reader would permit me to refer to Adichie as Chimamanda. Surnames are formal, […]

Dear Temilolu, Please keep firing words, backed by the Scripture to empower our Christian youths to preserve their virginity until they get married. As one of your readers in my 70’s, I always look forward […]

Minabere Ibelema mibelema@bellsouth.net As you might recall from last Sunday’s Punchwise, I intended to devote this Sunday’s edition to suggestions for sanitising Nigeria’s elections. Well, that has had to make way for more urgent — […]

When I inaugurated this countdown six months ago, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was at the beginning of his second term and had 1444 days left in office. But I must point out […]

The Chief Executive Officer, WFM 91.7, Mrs Toun Okewale-Sonaiya, has asked the Lagos State Government not to be silent on the expected prosecution of anyone found wanting in the sex for grades documentary. She said […]

There’s just so much about Nigeria that is still a mystery to the average person. If you were to place those issues on a scale, the Nigerian oil and gas sector would sit at the […]

Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says she does not have intimate conversations in bed with her husband owing to a lack of time. She said it is the reason she keeps ”talking”. Speaking […]

Jane Appleton Pierce, the wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, is perhaps, most remembered as the ‘’calamity first lady’’. She spent her years working against the political ambition of her husband. […]

Few months ago, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari raised an alarm over the country’s burgeoning population, describing it as “frightening” and “a big challenge.” According to the President, “By average estimates, our population is close to […]

“It was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said that History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the […]

This latest study claiming the evolution of humanity occurred in a huge lake that previously existed in Botswana overlooks a fundamental requirement that the environment should be salty marine water as well as have a […]

This is a deleterious bill that warrants an urgent arrest. The apologists of this counter-productive bill are oblivious of the inherent cancer it poses to our democracy. The hierophants of this potentially obnoxious bill must […]