Issues/Policy

THE Nigerian security situation deteriorated in the last week with the government proving helpless and raising its arms in the air. The deterioration can be aptly called the ‘Kaduna Statement.’ The statement is about the […]

AROLE Oduduwa, my second mental image of you left me in pure dazzlement of your unfolding personality, which I thought was a perfect fit for the big shoes left behind by the departed Ooni Okunade […]

Since 2009, ASUU has abandoned staff welfare issues to concentrate on funding public universities in order to provide quality research and teaching. Ranking in Webometric is not based on physical structures in universities but on […]

NIGERIANS should be proud of how much progressive politics has helped in tackling our challenges of development in seven years. It all started when Buhari’s CPC, Tinubu’s ACN and Oyegun’s ANPP as well as others […]

DESPITE political independence from Great Britain on October 1, 1960 and its rich, abundant human and material resources, Nigeria has been struggling to become a force to be reckoned with among the comity of nations. […]

THE war in Ukraine is a threat to international peace and security. It is instructive that before the ongoing war in Ukraine due to the invasion by Russia there were wars that had led to […]

The 2023 general elections are less than a year from now. With the recent conclusion of the All Progressives Congress national convention, where Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu was elected the national chairman of the party by […]

After the fallout of the All Progressive Congress’ National Convention, last Saturday/Sunday at Eagle Square in Abuja, groups and individuals have stepped up their game by mounting pressure on former President Goodluck Jonathan to throw […]

After chasing shadows for months since Comrade Osho baba-led National Working Committee was sacked in June 2020, the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, finally overcame its avoidable teething troubles to hold its convention that is […]

The deep injury inflicted on the Nigerian polity by corruption is a barrier to our political advancement. Similarly, the incessant hardship caused by bad governance is a hindrance to our economic growth. Hopefully, in our […]

A recent ultimatum issued by the ‘Lagos State Council Group of Elders’ of the National Union of Road Transport Workers that the national body of the union should withdraw the suspension of its Lagos State […]

“Optometry is a health care profession that is autonomous, educated and regulated (licensed/registered), and Optometrists are the primary health care professionals of the eyes and visual system who provide comprehensive eye and vision care, which […]

Dr Fabian Benjamin As ardent readers of the PUNCH newspaper, we noticed a publication on the Readers’ Text Messages column on page 26 of the PUNCH of Monday, March 21, 2022, where one Babalola Toheeb […]

APART from the perceived huge burden on the national economy and escalating insecurity situation, another reason that has been flaunted against the conduct of the 2022 population and housing census is its close timing to […]

EVEN the most vehement opponents of the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for President campaign in 2015 couldn’t have predicted that Nigeria would be where it is now! My God! Things were bad in Nigeria […]

DOGGED by scandals, the Niger Delta Development Commission is back in the news. In one salvo, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, practically declared war on the interventionist agency for its failure to provide the […]

I am particularly traumatised because I have professional and social engagements abroad, but I am “imprisoned” in Nigeria as a result of the unavailability of a Nigerian passport as an obligatory travel document. It is […]

ONE morning in September, 1973, I donned my white shorts and shirt, blue, gold and maroon-coloured tie, white jacket, brown stockings and sandals. It was my first day at the prestigious Methodist Boys High School, […]

“No state is poor in this country; it is this over-dependence on the Federal Government” – Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The fundamental flaws that define the recurring ugly decimal of political instability in […]

Social critics such as I am sure that many may take “yours truly” to be, must be careful to let everybody who would care to know it, that they are not doing so because, in […]