Issues/Policy

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A British man who treated his Pakistani wife as a slave was sentenced to two years on Friday following what is believed to be the first conviction in the UK […]

Radio Biafra which has been off the air for some time, is currently streaming live across the Nigerian airwaves without Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Checks by an online medium, […]

All over the world, countries that strive to develop oftentimes look inward in terms of the best of its human and material resources. Where these are in abundance, it becomes a huge plus for that […]

There is no doubt that there is too much politics and a great deal of arm-twisting in Abuja about project sites in Nigeria. That is why it is expedient to appeal to the Buhari government […]

Scholars and legal experts yesterday in Lagos disagreed over the war against corruption by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The roundtable which was organised by the Department of Jurispudence and International Law tagged “Winning […]

OWERRI—The sustained agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra appears to be attracting some attention from foreign countries, following the visit of the Phillippian Senate President’s aide, Lady Cynthia Esgurrna Touraha, to Owerri. Vanguard gathered […]

A new report on Thursday said despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s attempt at ensuring transparency in the oil sector, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, still withholds billions in oil revenues from the government account. The […]

In all probability, Yinusa & Ese would ultimately get married legitimately or illegitimately in spite of the noise. No one should read religious meaning into this case; it is a case of ordinary criminality.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in Washington DC meeting with world leaders from 55 other countries for the 2016 World Nuclear Security Summit convened by the US President, Barack Obama. The event seeks “to provide […]

THE Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) appears bent on enforcing the introduction of the Speed Limiting Device (SLD) come September 1, 2016 in spite of furious opposition from some quarters, particularly transporters and members of […]

Nigeria has recorded the birth of its first baby conceived through the oocyte (egg) freezing protocol. The feat was recorded by The Bridge Clinic, Lagos, on February 16, with the delivery of a male child, […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the United States for help in returning stolen Nigerian assets stashed in U.S. banks as part of his efforts to crack down on corruption, according to a statement from […]

ABUJA — CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, PDP, Delta North, said yesterday that if President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, was removed from his present position by the Code […]

If you have always been a Nigerian, by now you would be highly familiar with deferred national promises. Those are the lofty and extremely ambitious promises usually denominated with decade-long life cycles. Those promises, like […]

The rains are here. Thank God. The heat was becoming unbearable and many times I thought perhaps I was in hell because hell cannot be hotter than this. I hope America will experience the same […]

Tokunbo Korodo, Lagos zonal chairman of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), says Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum, is using Nigerians as experiment. Blaming the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation […]

The Federal Government has said it is keenly aware of the difficulties that Nigerians are currently facing over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor power supply, and that it is working round the clock to […]