Issues/Policy

With more than half the global population aged under 30, issues affecting young people are receiving greater attention from policymakers. Tackling high youth unemployment and low school attendance rates, and providing greater access to sexual […]

A former Minister for National Planning, Rasheed Gbadamosi, owns two expensive and luxurious penthouses in Panama, a notorious tax haven, documents retrieved by PREMIUM TIMES from the leaked Mossack Fonseca database have shown. Mr. Gbadamosi, […]

Thousands of people are dying each year because of the government’s failure to tackle food poisoning, health and safety breaches and pollution, a thinktank is warning. A new report from the Centre for Crime and […]

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s current president is a passionate Fulani, and the Fulani are a transnational migrant group, dealing today with the forces of environmental change that are forcing great pressure on their pastoral culture. Armed […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s current economic policies are similar to those he promulgated during the military regime he led in the 1980s, a former Minister of Education and social critic, Oby Ezekwesili, has said. Mrs. Ezekwesili […]

The scene is familiar. She breezes past security, past the Secretary or the P.A and barges into Oga’s office where he is having a meeting with his key staff. The staff look at her and […]

The talks for a possible oil freeze again ended in a deadlock with infighting between two rival Middle East oil producing giants and adversaries, Saudi Arabia and Iran.The 18 oil producing that gathered to stabilize […]

Saraki, the god of Kwara politics, is on the ropes. And he now sees clearly the inhumanity of gods. When candidness or even pretensions to it is traded in the public, something is let out. […]

UMUAHIA—As condemnations continue to trail the massacre of no fewer than 40 people of Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu by Fulani herdsmen last Monday, Igbo youths under the aegis of Ohaneze […]

When on March 15th last year, the Secretary of the Benin traditional council, Mr. Frank Irabor announced that “the leopard is ill in the Savannah bush”, we knew exactly what has happened to the Omo […]

The diplomatic process that will ensure the extradition of suspected looters who have fled the country will dominate President Muhammadu Buhari’s discussions with his counterparts when 60 world leaders meet in the United Kingdom next […]

The Edo state government has confirmed the death of Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, the oba of Benin, bringing to rest speculations of his whereabouts since 2015. The palace authorities had initially denied previous reports […]

The #OccupyNASS campaign group has denied being sponsored to move against the National Assembly, or its embattled chairman, Bukola Saraki, pointing instead to a robust support package from unnamed Nigerians, at an average of N400, […]

A nation that dreams greatness needs to invest in the strategic inculcation of national values. The success of such a strategic investment depends on several factors: (a) the scope of the values, (b) the source […]

That the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has been so mired in controversy of high magnitude, attracting so many interests, is because of its significance to the socio-economic life of the entire country. Incidentally, it is the only […]

“No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb. There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the […]

THERE is a clamour down the tiny alleyways of Kano’s central market, in northern Nigeria, as vendors thrust fabrics at passers-by, promising the best colour, quality and price. Amid the racket, Alhaji Zakari sits cross-legged […]

Last week’s visit of the Senegalese-American music icon, Akon, to the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, in New York City in the USA, strikes a remarkable resonance with the visit of America’s permanent representative to […]