Issues/Policy

Saraki is being tried on a 13 count charge including failure to declare his assets, operating a foreign bank account among other charges bordering on the violation of the code of conduct for public officers. […]

When I wrote Visit the Mortuary in the Sunday Times early in 1974, the motive was to draw attention to the emerging decay in our national ethos brought about by the emergency millionaires created by […]

A Yoruba proverb says that ‘Ilu ti ko si ofin ko is ese’. Nigeria is one country in the world were lawlessness is the order of the day. Were laws are bent, broken, disregarded, disobeyed […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, yesterday, faulted what he described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s double faced reaction to violence in the country, saying that the President was quick to react to the situation in […]

The Kaduna State Government recently lamented the threat facing the future of its school feeding programme that was launched with much fanfare in January. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Shehu Adamu, said […]

It was sometime in 1989 and the defunct Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI) was having a workshop in Bauchi State. Participants were expected from all parts of the country. Those of us […]

The other day the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, seemed to me to have temporised in its drive to introduce a speed control device on commercial vehicles to curb the excessive speed of the devils […]

Amidst growing outrage over plans to regulate religious preaching, Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Wednesday met with officials of the state branch of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to seek their support. The […]

Governor Ibikunle Amosun may have waded into the festering disagreement between the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

Bank customers may have to pay up to N600 per annum for debit and credit card maintenance fee as against the current N100 that they are charged annually by banks, according to the draft of […]

Nowhere represents the charged political atmosphere in Rivers State today more than the Rivers East Senatorial District.

ABUJA—-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuj‎a has refused an application by the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd),‎ seeking to stop further hearing on the 10-count criminal charge the Economic […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in 2014 diverted N36.4 billion meant for the construction and rehabilitation of dams in Nigeria, and dubiously paid same to the Office of the National Security Adviser, a government audit […]

ABUJA- A bill seeking to guarantee women equal rights with their male counterparts, was, Tuesrday, thrown out of the Senate plenary, when it was presented for consideration. The bill, which was presented for consideration by […]

ABUJA—A bill seeking to guarantee women equal rights with their male counterparts was, yesterday, thrown out by the Senate when it was presented for consideration during plenary. The bill, which was presented for consideration by […]

In the days when the prairie to the west of the Mississippi River and the plateau of the Rocky Mountains were yet to be conquered, it used to be said to the ambitious American male: […]

“In diplomacy, do not fear to negotiate; but do not negotiate out of fear” – John F. Kennedy, former United States President. It is stale news already to say that South African President, populist Jacob […]

LOKOJA—PRELATE of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche, has alleged ‘grand plan’ by President Muhammadu Buhari to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. But in a swift reaction, the presidency dismissed the allegations saying […]