Issues/Policy

The Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that he never said that Nigeria’s economy was beyond the control of the president. Mohammed in a statement by Segun Adeyemi his Speacial Assistant […]

The Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, has insisted that late James Ocholi’s driver had no driver’s license record with the commission. Mr. Kazeem said this on […]

The arrest of a middle-aged drug peddler in an internally displaced persons’ camp in Dikwa, Borno State has become a source of worry to the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, officials said. Baba Haruna, […]

With the expected visit this week of South Africa’s President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, there is hope that the lingering dispute between the Nigerian authorities and the MTN Group will be resolved. Minister of Communications Technology, […]

Sad times. All of a sudden nothing is working. The high hopes, the lofty expectations, with which we welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to power less than a year ago, have turned into a mirage, […]

In a hard-line decision, a deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and four deputy directors have been suspended by the apex bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for failing to follow financial regulations and due […]

Despite suspending their strike, Nigerian oil workers insist on the convocation of an all-inclusive conference to discuss the problems facing the oil and gas industry in the country. The nationwide strike suspended on Thursday was […]

“The culprits will not go unpunished. I have been Military Governor, Petroleum Minister, Military Head of State and headed the Petroleum Trust Fund. Never have I heard the words “Budget padding”.” President Buhari, February 23, […]

Like the gold rush of California in 19th century America, the small settlement of Oloibiri, a district headquarters in Ogbia in the defunct Eastern Region, came into limelight in second half of the 20th century […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu , yesterday, assured Nigerians that the fuel crisis that appears to be crippling the nation’;s economy would end within the next two days, while he […]

Apparently believing that he had heard and seen the worst of how corrupt practices have brought Nigeria to her knees, President Muhammadu Buhari, last week, almost lost his cool when it was brought to his […]

I confess: the title of my essay today is not original. It was first penned by the now late Agwu Okpanku, Classicist and journalist trained at Ibadan and Cambridge, in his column, “The Third Eye,” […]

I spent two hours with Dr Christopher Kolade, the elder statesman at his home last week. So rich is my experience, so varied is my take-away after such a meeting that I always wish there […]

The Ogun State chapter of the medical association went on a warning strike during the week. In doing so, it followed the footsteps of its Osun State cousin which has been at logger heads with […]

*Says Nigeria grossly under-policed *Asks police commands to increase community policing By Wole Mosadomi (Minna) & Oghene Omonisa With the debate over the need for state police still raging, Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon […]

The Nigerian government has apologised to its citizens for the hardship and inconveniences power outage has caused them. The government blamed the current electricity crisis in the country on sabotage, gas shortage and vandalism of […]

ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari has thrown his weight behind the people of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR, otherwise called Western Sahara, stating that Nigeria would ensure the realization of their self-determination and independence.

WHEN Hind Al-Otaibi went to the Riyadh Personal Status Court to have her father struck out as her wali, or guardian, the judges seemed sympathetic. Her father had raped and bruised her, Ms Otaibi, who […]

A Yoruba historian, Rufus Adebowale, has disagreed with feuding Yoruba monarchs, the Awujale of Ijebuland, Sikiru Adetona, and the Alake of Egbaland, Adedotun Gbadebo, on their perspectives on the hierarchy of Yoruba traditional stools. He […]