Issues/Policy

JANUARY is the month of the budget, the yearly rituals on incomes and expenditures of the governments. In the closing days of 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari and many of the state governors delivered their budgets […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians have proved wrong those who prophesied doom in the country after the 2015 general elections. Jonathan disclosed this in his Facebook yesterday while reacting to the honour […]

The Federal Government has said it will not succumb to agitations from some quarters to scrap the National Youth Service Corps scheme. The Minister of Youth Development and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalong, in Lagos on […]

The ongoing investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has landed the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in the Commission’s cell in Abuja. Metuh, who was arrested by four […]

If by December 31 2016 you still have a job, you are able to put food on your table or on your mat, your children are employed, your wife has not run away, your husband […]

Investigations into the identity of an English-speaking man who featured in an Islamic State (IS) group video are focusing on a Briton, Siddhartha Dhar, the BBC reported Tuesday. Dhar was born a Hindu and ran […]

UMUAHIA—FOLLOWING Rev. Father Ejike mbaka’s prediction of possible assassination plot against President Muhammadu Buhari, a group, Buhari South-East Youth Movement, BSEYM, has threatened to shut down the country if anything ugly happens to the President. […]

ABUJA- OFFICIALS of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have quizzed the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh. The operatives, four in number, came in a white unmarked […]

Nigeria has started 2016 grappling with modalities that will make the year a more peaceful and progressive one for its people. The Federal Government has continued to make efforts to overcome some of the country’s […]

When the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau visited Kano Central Prison recently, he was inundated with complaints about the circumstances of prisoners and why failure to decongest the facility could be a time bomb. The […]

It was around 3pm on New Year Day, Friday, January 1, 2016. I smelled something unusual as I took a deep breath. I kind of sniffed the air to confirm the odd smell. I then […]

Bothered by his state of health, three weeks after his arrest and subsequent detention, members of the Islamic sect, Shi’ites, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to tell Nigerians the whereabout of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem […]

ABUJA—Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, yesterday, teamed up with other eminent Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a robust defence after the president came under criticisms for insisting that […]

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has stated clearly that in the ongoing pursuit of treasury looters, returning what was stolen will not be sufficient ground to set anyone […]

There are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari might be heading for a head-on collision with the National Assembly (NASS), if he does anything to interfere with the plans by the legislative arm of government […]

I wonder what Chinua Achebe would say if he were alive to see the holocaust at Nnewi last Christmas season. Not much of a poet, Achebe mused on the bitter paradox of tragedy at Christmas […]

I have always been reluctant to get involved in the issue of modern day Biafra partly in order not to stoke the flames of an already burning fire and also in order not to contribute […]

The real scandal in what we have blithely baptised Dasukigate is not that one man or a small circle of men and women could sit astride $2 billion and waste it. The deeper scandal is […]