The bill seeking to amend sections of the 1999 Constitution to reduce the age limits for eligibility for elective offices in Nigeria, known as the Not Too Young To Run bill, has secured the endorsement […]
By now, almost everybody in Nigeria has heard, and, maybe, laughed out loud over Philomena Chieshe and her spiritual money-eating snake. The bizarre tale is the illogical submission to an audit at the Joint Admissions […]
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has tendered his resignation following intesnse pressure from the ruling African National Congress (ANC). In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening, Zuma said he had served […]
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over the assets of Daily Times Nigeria Plc, a media establishment. According to a statement signed by Jude Nwauzor, AMCON spokesman, Gbenga Fakoya took over the […]
Africa’s richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote visited the Ijora-Apapa Wharf road in Lagos on Wednesday, calling on the Federal Government to withdraw agencies causing the perennial gridlock in Apapa. He cited the presence of the […]
Our religion is very clear and very straight forward, and no one has the right to question the teachings of Islam. Valentine’s Day is haram, no matter how much a person would like to sugar-coat […]
Rogers Nicholas, theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, says Boko Haram insurgents return to occupy places the army formerly captured and cleared. He said this on Wednesday, during a press conference in Maiduguri, Borno state […]
The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as someone “in a trance,” urging him to wake up to challenges bedevilling the nation. Soyinka said this while reacting to a question on […]
The Lagos State Government says it will collaborate with stakeholders in the academics in a bid to sustain the traffic laws in the state. Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Ladi Lawanson during the courtesy call on […]
Abia State has just escaped from a constitutional maelstrom. Trouble started late in January when the state House of Assembly, in conjunction with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, unilaterally suspended the state’s Chief Judge, Theresa Uzokwe. Ikpeazu, […]
THE recent letter written by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, ostensibly to instill sanity in the polity, has been described variously as “explosive, sensational, letter bomb” etc, by different […]
LAST week, President Muhammadu Buhari provoked public ire when he recalled the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, who was suspended over alleged corruption by the Minister of Health, […]
A video of a two year, 11 month-old pupil of Chrisland School, Lekki, Lagos portraying her alleged serial defilement by the school’s supervisor was played today at the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. […]
Nigerians who own property in the United Kingdom have inundated the ministry of finance’s Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) hotlines with calls, causing the lines to crash on Friday. NAN quoted a source […]
Jacob Zuma has defied an ultimatum from South Africa’s ruling party to resign within 48 hours, pitching the “Rainbow Nation” into an unprecedented political crisis. The decision to tell Zuma to stand down or face […]
The first generation of voters born under a civilian administration, and who have not tasted a day of military rule ever in this country, will cast their ballot at the 2019 presidential election. They, and […]
The reason the letter former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him not to contest the 2019 election, elicited huge interest was not because of its content, but because of Obasanjo’s stature […]
Just when I thought that I had made my final contribution to the controversy over cattle colonies (see “No, no to cattle colonies”, The PUNCH, January 30, 2018), two recent developments have made it necessary […]
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has advised wealthy Nigerians to take advantage of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme to regularise their tax status and escape unsavoury consequences. The minister said this […]
Participants at a symposium held recently in Lagos unanimously agreed that common sense has a limit in public leadership and should not be the sole requisite for public leadership consideration; a position that supports sound education […]
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