THEN ongoing #EndSARS campaign against the impunity characterising the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police is both strikingly revealing and poignantly worrisome. It is strikingly revealing because of the various […]
Femi Falana, lawyer and rights activist, says operatives of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS), a police unit, are becoming a problem “even for the Nigeria police force”. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said this […]
We will not refuse to take difficult decisions so that we can win temporary applause. We will do what is required to solve difficult problems. We will not succumb to those who have a sense […]
The Federal Government and the Lagos State Government have agreed to pull down two bridges in Lagos located at Jibowu and Costain as part of efforts to address challenges facing the ongoing construction of a […]
The National Judicial Council did not object to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s prosecution of allegedly corrupt judges, a correspondence between the Council and the anti-graft agency obtained by PREMIUM TIMES has shown. In […]
Tai’s argument was for something more profound. He wanted a scenario where everything is slowed down and methodical, to the extent that our children will be taught how to solve every problem using their own […]
DESPITE its huge population of 194 million people, only five per cent of Nigerians use gas for cooking. About 60 per cent use firewood, 30 per cent use kerosene, while five per cent use coal.These […]
The spectre of unintended consequences regularly haunts public policy making — and not just in Nigeria. The easiest way to exorcise this demon is to price the provision of goods and services properly. And the […]
The leadership of Organised Labour have eagerly welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari’s establishment of a committee to consider a significant increase in the minimum wage. The President of the United Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero, for […]
In the past twenty years, our law office has been inundated with complaints from Nigerians who were brutalized in some African countries. Some of the complaints pertain to the barbaric killing of 18 Nigerian during […]
There was a veiled agreement among stakeholders at a recent gathering in Lagos that the governments in Nigeria at all levels are shirking the traditional but universal responsibility of provision of economic and infrastructural succor […]
Let me not lie. I am reluctant to turn on the news these days. Reason is simple. Shame seems to get the better of me each time I do. Feeling safe, from thousands of miles […]
“Sandra knew there was always a chance that her clients would kill her.” So began an in-depth story in CNN online about the plight of Nigerian slave-prostitutes in Europe. Sandra is CNN’s pseudonym to protect […]
THE Federal Government’s decision to reintroduce tolls on federal highways to raise funds for road maintenance is a wrong approach to solving a multifaceted problem. Restoring toll plazas to 38 points across the country as […]
The world is sounding appalled and thoroughly shocked by the gory news emanating from Libya about the return to the slave trade era ended centuries ago, which specifically reigned from the 16th to 19th centuries. […]
I strongly believe that the revolution that this nation seeks must start from the mind of millions of young Nigerians who make up more than 60 percent of the population…when…celebrities find the courage to speak […]
The Federal Government has resolved to sell some national assets to fund the 2018-2020 budgets. Mr. Ben Akabueze, Director-General of the Budget Office, who made the plan public, listed the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, […]
You are gathered this Sunday at the stately Methodist Church of the Trinity at Tinubu, in the heart of Lagos to honour the memories of Dr Kwao Sagoe, and his wife-Chief (Mrs) Jumoke Sagoe, who […]
When it comes to nation building issues, we cannot all sleep, facing same direction. On the condition that we all sleep, facing same direction, we would never be able to build the Nigeria of our […]
The federal government has said it will seize properties that are built and owned by corporate organisations from where taxes are not being paid. Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, said this […]
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