Issues/Policy

A passenger train that departed Lagos for Kano derailed at Jebba in the early hours of Saturday, leaving at least two dead and many passengers injured, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The train left Lagos at […]

The incident occurred in 2005, few days after the immediate past Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede, joined his ancestors, according to the father of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, […]

“Anyone who can’t account for his wealth must be brought to account. Everyone who has served in public office must account for what they own” — Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in Lagos, April 23, 2016. […]

The following article is intended to be read as an extension of, addendum to, Femi Falana’s “How Nigeria can raise US$200bn from withheld, looted funds,” (http://allafrica.com/stories/201604110029.html;unedited text available on SaharaReporters at: http://tinyurl.com/hu35qa2.

Once upon a time, cattle herdsmen sent word home. They had lost men and cattle in Saki, Oyo state. They relayed their distrust and contempt for the police and the state government. Derelict and partisan […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, and Group Managing Director(GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu recently contemplated a strategic petroleum products reservefor the country. He was thinking about meetingemergency […]

(CNN)Fati Abubakar knew something was wrong when a local preacher started to draw larger crowds with his outspoken rhetoric. The place was Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State, and the man in question was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Friday, received a damning verdict from the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU, at its 19th National Delegates Conference held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said Nigerians were yet to experience […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, said the process of recovering stolen funds had become tedious. The President made the statement while receiving the Executive Secretary of United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, Yury […]

I hardly ever single out governors or specific persons whenever I write except on few, rare occasions. My focus, most times has always been on issues. I am making an exception today, to write about the […]

If workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) insist on their demand that they be paid a N56,000 minimum wage, they would set our political leaders on the path of thinking creatively […]

Continued from yesterday The proposed Kaduna law is not focused on a secular purpose. It is aimed at regulating the two religions. It does not pretend that its only purpose is to regulate Christianity and […]

Just like Leicester City. This will probably become a cliché, as a descriptive line for those who achieve the improbable, especially in sports. The City of Leicester and its stakeholders will not be bothered about […]

With virtually all socio-economic indices showing red, it was expected that this year’s Workers Day celebration would be a particularly sombre one. At a time some 24 or so of the 36 states are in […]

EXCUSES by functionaries of the Buhari administration for failure to light up homes and supply energy to the industries are unacceptable. After 11 months in office, the administration last week said it had been hit […]

A portion of the wealth owned by former Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Hakeem Belo-Osagie, is domiciled in trusts and shell companies in some notorious tax havens around the world, with some […]

The Federal Government on Sunday kept mum over the recent demand by the organised labour for a new minimum wage of N56,000. The issue of the minimum wage was not mentioned by the Minister of […]