The federal government of Nigeria recently released names of alleged looters of the commonwealth of the nation with the hint that another list would be made public in due course. How soon the list or […]
“Wherever possible, government should invest in citizen capabilities to provide for themselves.” – Anne-Marie Slaughter, President & CEO, New America President Muhammadu Buhari who seeks re-election in 2019 criticized Nigerian youths last week at a […]
God Almighty burst out, not laughing, nor swearing, nor deprecating, but weeping and poeticising: “Nigerians, what manner of day! What manner of clay!” The other time I wafted through a chink in the sky on […]
Saudi Arabian authorities are threatening to block Nigerian pilgrims from attending this year’s Hajj exercise. Nigeria has one of the largest contingents in the annual religious exercise with about 95,000 pilgrims. The National Hajj Commission […]
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES and UDEME can authoritatively report today. The payment was made from the controversial […]
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Sunday called on Nigerians to be vigilant and beware of a coalition formed by former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo purportedly claiming to be on a rescue mission […]
Samson Ayokunle, president of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has appealed to Christians to save themselves from killings and attacks. He said this during a pre-convention news conference of the 105th annual meeting of the […]
One major problem limiting the national effectiveness and impact of the Nigerian Left in the country’s politics – at least since the end of the (1967-1970) Civil War – has been the contradictions (or “disconnect”) […]
Here Nothing Works… …what is it in ourselves or in our soil That thing which connect so well elsewhere Like the telephone, the motorway, the airways Dislocate our lives so much that we all Begin […]
BETWEEN A PAMPERED PRESIDENT AND THE LAZY YOUTH There is a popular saying in this part of the world that “even when a fox makes mistakes, it is not in the position of the fowl […]
Last week the legislator representing my Senatorial District (Delta Central) was at the centre of an absurd tragic drama in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly. Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, a trained lawyer, former Commissioner, […]
The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo recently re-opened the matter of former government appointees who were alleged to have looted the treasury while in office. The discourse centred on when and how the Federal Government […]
The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, says Nigeria is seriously bleeding and divided more than ever. He said the continuous killings by suspected herdsmen across the country is symptomatic of a failed state. The governor […]
Zaid Jurji is the Chief of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for UNICEF Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with ‘PREMIUM TIMES’ Nike Adebowale, he talks about the WASH project, funding and the problem of open […]
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed alarm at the rate Nigerian physicians are trooping abroad in search of greener pastures. In separate interviews with The Guardian, they shed light on the urgency of the […]
An atmosphere of unrest is looming over Ogoni land, following the renewal request by Shell Petroleum Development Company for Oil Mining Leases (OML11). Already, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and […]
Miss Monica Osagie, the student at the centre of a sex-for-mark scandal rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has denied shunning an invitation by the panel probing her audio tapes of her conversation with disgraced […]
Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I hope this meets you well. I don’t know if you remember me. My name is Simon. Simon Kolawole. Never mind. We will come to that later. Let us briefly journey […]
The arrogance of people like the British prime minister who assume that knowledge and civilisation reside in them and that they are on a civilising mission, is typically colonial and it is not surprising that […]
…however much we disagree with the details, the basic facts remain that the almost three years later, the Buhari presidency is functioning below the expectations of many Nigerians. The disappointments are too many; and to […]
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