Since I first publicly made these arguments, a few people have said my experiences aren’t representative of the entire picture. I have asked to be pointed in the direction of journalists who have set foot […]
Can we channel the Abacha loot to the CTS and re-negotiate the use of the World Bank’s $500 million? There are so many questions demanding answers. The CTS will be for a while, may be […]
Nigeria’s widespread corruption, which has been eating the eco-system like termites, met on audacious response from President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday afternoon with the signing of a new Executive Order No. 6 on preservation of […]
Desperate politicians, seeking foothold onto power, have mounted a huge traffic towards the homes of these “men who see tomorrow.” They swear oaths of allegiance while sleeping inside coffins and making human sacrifices. Worse still […]
The presidency said on Sunday that the ongoing killings linked to herdsmen are amongst the multifaceted implications of climate change. The presidency also restated the claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that politicians are behind the […]
Despite recording no single new case of polio infection in the past 18 months, Nigeria remains a country blighted by the disease and a possible source of infection to the rest of the world. Until […]
Excuse me if I am behind the times in still using the phrase “you nko.” These days social media have provided the youth with a plethora of ways to say things — including through emoji […]
In case you have missed it, there is another political thriller on the way in Ekiti State, which this Saturday votes for a new governor. There are 35 candidates, including former governor Kayode Fayemi. His […]
The Brookings Institution recently published a grim report that indicated Nigeria has leapfrogged India to become the country with the highest number of people in extreme poverty and the de facto poverty capital of the […]
VIEWPOINT IN BRIEF: No immunity on cost of production Debates around subscription for pay-television services in the country are always impassioned. The widespread belief is that pay-television services are too expensive, particularly when operators increase […]
An oil truck explosion of apocalyptic magnitude occurs in Lagos, fatally charring a frightening number of lives and maiming several others. Many more vehicles are burnt, some to ashes, with scores of stampeding citizens severely […]
“My point is, people cannot be slaughtered in their houses helplessly. Maybe what we need to do is to liberalise gun control. Let everybody own a gun so that when you are coming to my […]
You should have seen me shaking my head in self-pity, as if somebody had just mercilessly slapped me. I had just landed at the “little” Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, and needed to use the […]
It started like a joke, a lousy joke. Yet here we are days later, eyes peeled, marvelling at who would think to tax individual Social Media use. Who does that? Well, we know who — […]
We are the casualties Prisoners in a fortress of falling walls Grandmasters of the illusion of excellence Masked men and women in ‘Grand Theft Identity’1 Residents of a disappearing tower Actors on a sinking sewer […]
I actually planned to write this piece few days before the arrival in Nigeria of the young French president Monsieur Emmanuel Macron so as to remind him of the unfinished business that his nation has […]
“And Nigeria are quite well known to us, we’ve always met in the last World Cups. They’re tough, not just because of their physical power, but because their disorganisation has the effect of disorganising you […]
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday urged landlords in the country to start collecting rents in arrears beginning from today, July 6, 2018. According to him, property owners across the […]
The security crisis ravaging English-speaking regions of Cameroon is driving away many of the biggest traders originally from neighbouring Nigeria who have traditionally run key markets in towns around the regions, a report by Quartz […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has commenced investigations into the railway scholarship scandal involving top government officials, PREMIUM TIMES learnt. Investigations by this newspaper showed how some ministers and other top public […]
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