Issues/Policy

The kidnapping of the Chibok girls was the biggest blunder of the Boko Haram, and it marked the beginning of the end of the group. How do you fight an enemy who is not an […]

Aside from terrorism, threats to our lives are ceaselessly coming left, right and centre, and we still seem uncertain as to when the next will hit us. If it is not HIV/AIDS pandemic, it is […]

“Another aunty again.” These were the exact words echoed by a primary three class in a particular school which has been in existence for over three decades. This was supposed to be a ‘Teaching Practice’ […]

Against the backdrop of the massive corruption and ineptitude that plague Nigeria presently, the decision by the Federal Government to suspend the much advertised new national airline named, Nigeria Air, is a positive step in […]

The federal government says it suspended the national carrier project due to investor apathy. Addressing journalists on Monday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, explained that […]

A new report on the fiscal health of the country’s 36 states released by BudgIT, a civic advocacy group, reveals anew how governors failed to harness resources to drive development and reduce poverty. Depressingly, the […]

On Friday, September 7, 2018, during an emergency stakeholders’ meeting, the Director of Engineering Hydrology, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, Mr. Clem Nze, warned that flood was imminent and specifically noted that all the indices that […]

There has been a rush to judgement by numerous commentators ever since Premium Times broke the story about the fake National Youth Service Corps Certificate of Exemption issued to Mrs Kemi Adeosun and used by […]

Extra time in the game of football is the most unpredictable period in a keenly competitive match. This is because there may be a twist of fate for a team which appears to be strong […]

The dust over the resignation of the erstwhile Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, had not died down before another story broke that the Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, did not undergo the mandatory […]

World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. The theme for World Sight Day 2018 is ‘Universal […]

Open Letter to His Excellency Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations 18 September, 2018 Urgent Appeal to the Secretary General to Revoke Association of the United Nations with Olusegun Obasanjo […]

Very few, if at all, would remember that the boat of Dr. Bukola Saraki took a shaky turn almost immediately after he assumed office as governor of Kwara State in May 2003. Saraki had engaged […]

We have been here before. Many people have written about the foolishness of Colony of Fools. It is apparent that they don’t want change. They are quick to argue why they can’t change, why they […]

Internet users in Nigeria increased marginally to 104.6 million in August, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The NCC made this known on Monday in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for August posted on […]

IN a season in which natural disasters have been wreaking havoc across the Americas and Asia, Nigeria has not been without her share of nature’s rage. The country may not be contending with hurricanes, heatwaves, […]

A two-week ultimatum by labour unions to the Federal Government to announce a new minimum wage refocused attention on workers’ pay and the precarious financial position of public and private sector employers. The threat of […]