Issues/Policy

As we go through the motions of bidding 2018 bye bye, we cannot but reminisce on the steps and missteps of the year. Many things, big and small, happened in this nation in the year […]

The 1st Respondent in this appeal had by his Originating Summons dated and issued out of the Federal High Court, Abuja on 7th March, 2018, against the Appellant and 3rd Respondents as Defendants sought for […]

President Muhammadu Buhari presented a jumbo budget proposal for 2019 to the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018. My observation, like that of other discerning Nigerians, is that its size is a reflection of […]

Abimbola Adelakun(aadelakun@punchng.com) Four years ago, as Nigeria faced the polls, the general sentiment was that we needed to elect leaders with integrity who would arrest the deterioration of her public institutions. As we face another […]

“Bandits” have emerged as the new bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria, joining a long (and still growing list) that includes Boko Haram, cultists, herdsmen, kidnappers and militants. In different parts of the North-West, from Birnin-Gwari […]

Within the last five months, some key actors in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration have suggested that support for their principal in the forthcoming presidential election is the only guarantee that agitations for the Presidency […]

The setback suffered by Nigeria’s balance of payment in the third quarter of 2018 once again establishes the fact that the country is an import dependent economy and it also brings to the fore the […]

Sometimes when our beloved country is referred to as a land of the absurd where anything can happen, it is conspiracy theories such as the subject of this article that validates such outrageous and negative […]

You have put Christmas 2018 behind you, abi? Perhaps it was merry; perhaps it was dry. If it was the former, then things well with you in 2018. The miracles you prayed for happened and […]

“I am beginning to wonder how many fools it takes to make the term “My fellow citizens.” –Honore de Balzac 1799-1850 in LOST ILLUSIONS. Two weeks ago, the Senate Committee responsible for the oversight functions […]

President Muhammadu Buhari recently presented a total expenditure of N8.83 trillion in 2019 Budget Proposal tagged “Budget of Continuity” to the National Assembly. Nigeria tops remittances to sub-Saharan Africa with $22 billion according to the […]

There are inherent conflicts between sedentary farmers and itinerant herdsmen because of their competing needs for water and ever diminishing arable land and pastures. With population growth and increasing urbanisation steadily encroaching on available land, […]

As stated in the objectives of the Bill, we all desire “a more efficient and effective Police Force that is based on the principles of: accountability and transparency; and protection of human rights and fundamental […]

The Nigeria Police on Wednesday reacted to the allegation by the lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district in the upper legislative chamber, Senator Dino Melaye that the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris had concluded […]