Issues/Policy

Politicians often flirt with words as they promise to improve the lives of the people during election campaigns. But that becomes a distant prospect once they assume office as they launch out immediately on what […]

Omoyele Sowore planned a nationwide demonstration against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. He captioned it “RevolutionNow.” Every right-thinking Nigerian knows Nigeria needs a revolution of sorts. Things cannot just continue the way they have […]

A few weeks ago a young lady, 26, called Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola who is also known as DJ Cuppy, took the uninsurable risk of travelling to Borno, the heartland of bloodshed. Borno is a no-go […]

Nearly 180 days after the presidential elections, which took place in February 2019 the Presidential Election Tribunal finally gave its verdict on the contested polls between the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and […]

In an interview with the Catholic newspaper Cruxnow Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, of Catholic Diocese in Sokoto speaks on Boko Haram war, anti-corruption war, the Muslim-Christian schism, mentioning for instance that out of the 23 […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Monday in New York announced robust plans and initiatives by his administration to reverse the negative effects of climate change in Nigeria. The plans were revealed in his address to the United […]

Says I shall meet you in court A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to […]

Once again, Bill Gates, the world’s, hitherto, richest man who has spent millions of dollars on Nigeria’s failing healthcare delivery system has taken the rulers of Africa’s largest economy to the cleaners. The American philanthropist […]

Journalism is a tough job. And journalists are under a lot of pressure to churn out news stories. Features stories however are not like news stories. News stories must be sent on the go without […]

If I have gold medal, I will, unreservedly, award it to Allen Onyema, Nigeria’s burgeoning world-class business tycoon, bestriding Africa’s aviation industry through his airline Air Peace, for his unprecedented patriotism in boosting Nigeria’s image […]

The attention of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has been drawn to a front page publication of The Guardian newspaper on 3rd September 2019 with the above headline. In view of the obvious […]

Like most Nigerians, I have never met Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace Airline, before. I may not even be able to pick him out in a crowd. All I know is that he […]

It is perhaps no longer news that a once upon moral, cultural and spiritual society of ours has so degenerated in values to the extent that some perverted people now openly advertise their erogenous zones […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was heckled during the recent funeral service of Zimbabwe’s erstwhile leader Robert Mugabe. It was easy to guess why. When he stood to speak, Ramaphosa apologised for weeks of violence […]

In the wake of the latest dastardly xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the first batch of Nigerian evacuees arrived Lagos on September 11, 2019, That is, a week or so after native South Africans burnt […]

FORMER Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, weekend, said that the elderly people in South East may embrace the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB if the other parts of Nigeria conspire and […]

The first part of this series ended abruptly last week on account of space constraints. Pardon me if the last paragraph is repeated fully. Otherwise what follows might not make sense. FIRST, the farm workers […]

Dear Puluma, I actually called you by your local nickname to register an impression. A reminder of some sort. More like telling you it’s from one of your followers, one who must have shared some […]

Mohamed Rachid Rida, a Syrian Arab reformator said, “To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is like to set yourself on fire in order to light the way for a blind man!” When Mohamed […]

Stakeholders in the economy have expressed worry about the disparity between huge government earnings and growing poverty in the country. This followed the report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) showing that N28.58 […]