Issues/Policy

Boys are those that run to people, men are those that people run to…Tonia Tortor The time is ripe for Nigerians to flow with the tide and beat the politicians to their own game. Why? […]

Aside the popular phrase, ‘The Audacity of Courage’, only very few phrases would merit a perfect fit in the thread of any narration composed to render logical explanation to the willingness of the First Lady, […]

When I was in secondary school, I had so much hope, so much optimism and so much belief in this nation called Nigeria. I believed so much that I bought language textbooks on Hausa and […]

Recent reports revealed that 13 soldiers and two police personnel were killed on Christmas-eve while fighting through a Boko Haram ambush on Damaturu-Maiduguri Road but Nigerian Army’s deputy spokesman, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, quickly added that […]

Although God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth has impinged on the consciousness of humanity, the inevitability of death. Nonetheless, when death comes knocking, it is painful to both the victims and family members. […]

You don’t have to be a psychologist to see through the phoney personality stunts with which the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is desperately struggling to get noticed by Nigerians. Quite apart from the PDP’s […]

It is such a tragedy that the Social Democratic Party, SDP, is stuck in the mud of its internal crisis. The party, as of this writing, faced the grim prospects of disqualifying itself from contesting […]

And there is no herd of people who talk a lot before thinking of all the possible interpretations and repercussions of their utterances than politicians on the campaign trail. Objective observers of the political scene […]

Tiko Okoye According to figures contained in the 2016 Financial Inclusion Survey Report released by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access, a financial sector development organisation that promotes financial inclusion in Nigeria, the proportion of financially […]

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com Now and then, a Nigerian leader raises the issue of our population problem but somehow, it slides without a sustained discussion. In June 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan hinted the possibility […]

Just like every other seasonal activity, it is predictable that the 2019 election cycle will dawn. What was not predictable, perhaps until recently, are the characters whose faces will be the emblem of this particular […]

Buhari’s notion of unrivalled performance in the last three years and half is buoyed by the illusion of acceptability that the alleged huge crowd that receives him at campaigns indicates. When Buhari harangues the citizens […]

In a couple of weeks Nigeria will begin another round of general elections. This coming round of the four-yearly ritual, re-started by Nigeria’s ruling class in 1999 to herald the Fourth Republic, will be different […]

The Founder of the Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry, Abuja, Prophet Emmanuel Omale has prophesied that President Muhammadu Buhari, would win the Feb. 16 presidential elections Omale made the declaration as part of his […]

Abraham Ogbodo seems to have an obsession with Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. He is constantly searching for what next the Vice President would do – but if he was searching with good intent it […]

Ejike Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for reelection. In his New Year message to Nigerians, Mbaka said Buhari could have died when he was sick if God didn’t […]

Dead or alive? Repressed and depressed by parents or not? These are the controversial queries that filled the social media airwaves after the mysterious suicide action taken by Aisha Omolola, a 300 level student of […]