I have been researching on political killings and state-sanctioned hits in Nigeria. It is tragic where we are coming from. The murder of these people – Pa Alfred Rewane, Bola Ige and Kudirat Abiola was […]
From time to time, a book comes along that does much to shed light on a vexing issue. One such book is the recently released Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted […]
‘Still Standing’ is an auto-biography of a 52-year old woman. It was first published about 12 years ago. It is the compelling story of a writer’s 40-year old battle against a disease that has inhabited […]
Chairman of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Adesina Ogunlana, in this interview with BERTRAM NWANNEKANMA, explains why the NBA is against the 2018 Lagos State Land Use Law. Why is the […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said Nigeria has become too solid as a country for any force, calamity or misgovernance to destroy it. Mr. Obasanjo, who spoke exclusively to PREMIUM TIMES from Azerbaijan where […]
Lagos State has the most opaque finances in Nigeria because she has been run since 1999 by cosmopolitan minds who need a progressive veneer for crude and conspicuous consumption. Other personal slave plantations such as […]
…it is distasteful for a visitor to our homestead to warn us not to entertain another visitor. A sixth point is that Tillerson’s warnings give the impression that Africans are children who cannot think for […]
But you are always going to be as strong as your weakest link. Ambode is less read than Babatunde Fashola. In the long chain of Tinubu boys, he is one of the least sophisticated. It […]
By Kazeem Ugbodaga In the last few months, the Lagos mega city has been taken over by refuse. Heaps of refuse dorn every nooks and crannies of the state, with a looming epidemic staring residents […]
Liberia’s recently elected president, George Weah, on a visit to Nigeria, has requested, among other things, at least 6,000 teachers ‘to make up for the shortage of good teachers’ in his country’s education system. That […]
The Lagos State Government has been in the proverbial eye of storm ever since it commenced distribution of demand notices for the payment of the Land Use Charge for 2018. Many property owners expressed surprise […]
Our nation harbours many oddities, and strangely so. In return, we get odd outcomes. I don’t mean this in any amusing sense of it. At this time when there’s a need to be concerned about […]
DEJECTED but slow to anger, Nigerians, as usual, are exhibiting apathy where there should be widespread indignation. They are struggling hard to assimilate the latest explosive revelations about the stupendous salaries and allowances of federal […]
In Metaphysics and Epistemology, solipsism is an interesting theory and position which views ‘self’ as all that exists. An adherent of solipsism is a self-absorbed, self-obsessed narcissist whose fixation is all about ‘me-myself-and-I’. A solipsist […]
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge,” – Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) Now I know why our ancestors, in every culture, noted in […]
The exit of Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson from office in January at the end of her second term as Liberian president left Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the last African woman president standing. In a world where women have […]
Many Nigerians are still not getting their children fully immunized. They treat vaccinations with kid gloves in spite of serious challenges some diseases pose to child survival and endemic nature of such diseases in the […]
When former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan affirmed a few years back that “corruption is not stealing”, he was crucified and vilified. Perhaps, among other things, that statement cost him the presidency. Also, once upon […]
Professor Wole Soyinka has said the hate bill under consideration in the National Assembly is aimed at ending criticisms of government officials by the people. Speaking at the ‘Ripples Nigeria Dialogue’ event in Lagos, Soyinka […]
The long-expected ruling on the application to travel abroad for medical treatment by former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, suffered another setback as the judge asked parties to […]
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