The kidnapping of over 105 school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State last week has put to rest the much acclaimed or celebrated success in the war against Boko Haram in the country. The insurgents successfully […]
Pius Adesanmi, a professor of literature and African studies at Carlton University, Canada, says President Muhammadu Buhari should have resigned over the abduction of some schoolgirls in Yobe state. Boko Haram insurgents raided Government Girls’ […]
By Osa Amadi & Chris Onuoha THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has said with the rising rate of youth unemployment, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder. The Ooni […]
Isha Sesay, a CNN journalist, says the abduction of 11o students from Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state, is “a national disgrace”. The girls were kidnapped when suspected Boko Haram insurgents raided the school […]
As usual, the release of the annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) made screaming headlines internationally – which is good. Countries were graded according to their seeming progress in the fight against corruption – from where […]
Everywhere you turn to in online Nigeria these days, there are folks arguing for ignorance as the most strategic pathway to 2019 and beyond. Niyi Osundare once published a sarcastic essay on the uses of […]
The Concerned Stakeholders of Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria (AWMN) on Sunday condemned a statement credited to an aggrieved group within the association faulting the resolve to work with the Lagos State Government and […]
Human beings and indeed, the human society, learn from past experiences and guard against harm and loss of lives and property. As individuals, we are in a life-long process of learning, adapting and refocusing of […]
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo recently found it very necessary to issue a public statement that clarified the religious status of his (Osinbajo’s) future son-in-law. Yes, that statement was so important it had to be […]
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, and its Nigerian counterpart, the All Progressives Congress (APC) are each a ‘Congress’. However, while the ANC is a political party, which during the Anti-Apartheid struggle […]
South African police have busted Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry, a church run as a cult, with no fewer than 100 sex slaves, among them girls as young as 12, nursing tiny babies and with leaders […]
The Federal Government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram […]
Confirmed: nothing ever changes in Nigeria. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This immortal epigram of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, the 19th century French critic, journalist and novelist, captures the fortune of […]
It shouldn’t be pedestrian and preposterous to assert that the race for 2019 presidency began long before Nigerians voted in the presidential election that held on March 28, 2015. The permutations that threw up incumbent […]
The Association of Waste Managers in Nigeria has distanced itself from claims of a resolution of the dispute between the Dubai-based firm, Visionscape Group, and private waste operators. In a statement made available to PREMIUM […]
Kingsley Moghalu is a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria overseeing Financial Systems Stability. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Ben Ezeamalu and Nicholas Ibekwe, he spoke about his tenure at the […]
Former Minister of Health, Prof A.B.C. Nwosu, has described Igbos as lazy thinkers, who are acting strangely ahead of the 2019 general elections. According to him, Igbo were thinking that by merely supporting President Muhammadu […]
Unsurprisingly, it is not unlikely that those aiming to unseat Mr. Buhari would have more than a keen interest in seeing that the one thing he is supposedly good at is the one thing he […]
Since our railways may not be ready for mass transit until perhaps the next five to ten years and the NCAA is sleeping on duty, it’s in our enlightened self-interest to take our fate in […]
The attitude of the leadership of Nigeria and its security institutions to the safety of the poor and vulnerable is condemnable. In the same system, the social structure ensures the securitisation of the rich. While […]
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