Issues/Policy

(tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) Before her rape, she was home to creative and hard-working natives. Boundless mineral and natural resources oozed from her succulent bosom. She was a beautiful goddess that dropped beholders’ jaws. Her virginity sent her […]

From faculty to faculty, drums will rumble and grumble so thunderously as the campus of the University of Ibadan (UI), will be kept agog with all manner of festivities involving dancing, singing, acting – all […]

Early in 2018 when Mallam Atiku Abubakar began to reference restructuring the nation’s polity as one of his cardinal goals I thought I should take him seriously. As a man from the Niger Delta whose […]

Once upon a time, Boko Haram was a very peaceful group. Boko Haram — the same “dreaded”, “insurgent”, terrorist group — once went about its business very peacefully even if its doctrines themselves were unpopular. […]

The Organised Labour on Sunday shunned a meeting called by the Federal Government as part of efforts to stop the nationwide strike, just as it vowed to embark on the nationwide strike from Tuesday. But […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ordered its members across the country to commence indefinite strike. Abiodun Ogunyemi, national president of ASUU, disclosed this to reporters after a meeting of leaders of the […]

The federal government illegally diverted $1.05 billion (N378 billion at N360 to a dollar) sourced from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividend funds to secretly fund subsidy payment on petroleum products, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari a few days ago, in his usual characteristics of self righteousness, and buck passing blamed tardiness in the passage of budgets by the National Assembly for the delay in the completion of […]

In December 2014, yours sincerely consulted its archive to reel out his creative prophesies about the crumbling house of clay of the PDP and the sweeping effect of the just amalgamated opposition – APC. In […]

In furtherance to our letter submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on April 23rd, 2018, we emphatically and unequivocally call for the declaration of Nigeria as a terror […]

There’s so much happening economically in Nigeria recently that can potentially depress even the most thick-skinned business leader. It’s great we celebrated the improvement in our “ease of doing business” global ranking from 169th to […]

No, I don’t plan to run through the horrible events of the week that ended yesterday. If the headline sounds like a memo from NTA circa 1980, it’s because of the many ideas I had […]

I enrolled in college as an economics major, but sitting in my first economics course (microeconomics 101) I had a sense that I had made the wrong choice. But who gives up on the first […]

Chief Anthony Anenih, one of the most influential chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party from 1999 to 2016 who was widely-known as “Mr. Fix-It,” died last week, aged 85. A veteran of various political parties […]

For some time now, the nation’s landscape has been characterized by massive political activities. This is quite understandable as the much awaited 2019 national elections are just around the corner. By next February, the die […]

Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has said claim of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, would reduce fuel price to N90 showed […]

  A former lawyer to President Donald Trump of the United States (US), Michael Cohen, has claimed that Trump used racist language in several private conversations with him during the time he worked as the […]

We would not have given him the document if he didn’t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it […]