“Beware the Ides of March,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar. In those words, Caesar was given an alert about his imminent assassination in the hands of Roman […]
IF you are a constant world-traveller, you would have come to the conclusion that Nigeria is very well known all over the world. Like Olabisi Ajalla who travelled all over the world with his bike, […]
Yesterday, 27th August, 2018, many Nigerian news outlets carried a reportage on an insult allegedly sent in the direction of President Buhari by President Donald Trump after a meeting between the two leaders in April […]
Niran Adedokun nadedokun@gmail.com A report in the last edition of THISDAY, The Sunday Newspaper, put paid to the boastful rhetoric of the Buhari government on the success of its anti-corruption war. The front page story, […]
“The law is an ass.” This aphorism rings aloud the manipulation of the law by the rich and powerful. At a point in Nigeria, some politically exposed persons procured orders of “perpetual immunity” from prosecution. […]
On November 19 this year, it will be 10 years that the Makama Bida, Alhaji Shehu Ahmadu Musa passed on to glory. He worked almost his entire life in the public service culminating in his […]
Every day, everyone in one way or the other preoccupies himself with the search for happiness and joy. Deep down us we long for fulfillment in life. Time and again, we hear people in old […]
Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com This week must be one of the most humiliating ones for the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. Here and there, he has had to endure insults and unpleasant observations from leaders of […]
In a recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector of the economy received credit facilities worth N814.5 billion from the banks in the second quarter(April to […]
The clock is ticking for the 2019 general election. But uncollected Permanent Voter Cards at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s offices nationwide, which stood at 7,458,291 as of mid-August, is a conundrum that should be […]
Just a few days ago, the global financial community woke up to the cheering news that the World Bank had launched the first bond instrument built on a blockchain with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. […]
I have more than a passive interest in Osun State. Although I was born and bred in Ibadan, Oyo State where I did all my education with the exception of my first degree which I […]
Of course, I got the job. It was not just me alone, my friends and their friends too. At the end of the process, about 5,000 residents of Lagos got the job just from an […]
Were Kennedy to be alive today and wished to rewrite the book, he would certainly list McCain among the very best souls that ever stepped into the American Senatee… I am particularly excited about McCain’s […]
When that grundnorm is settled, we want to tell the leaders of Nigeria of 2019 and thereafter that what we need from them is to top their agenda with powerful and non-negotiable policies to address […]
Kofi Annan, who passed away on August 18 at the age of 80, can be situated within the select group of aspirational Africans of his time. Within their generation, the group was imbued with huge […]
The recent ban on scavengers popularly known as Baban Bolas in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has once again brought to the fore the dictum that every malfeasance has an end date. For scavengers in […]
Charley-Boy, that Nigerian grandfather who feels he is still a boy used to run (and may still be running) a TV show with a Unique Selling Proposition: Everything is possible. A Charley-Boy Republic is thus […]
Consistent with his usual knack for seeing seemingly intractable challenges through to a tolerable state, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s order to the Inspector General of Police to “overhaul” the controversial police unit called the Special […]
…if any relationship with the outside world is a factor in solving Nigerian problems, President Buhari has no business touching the APC nomination form. Further, the Financial Times does not speak for the world, quite […]
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