Issues/Policy

Timeline: December 18, 2015, 5:53am. I walked out into a beautiful morning breeze, holding a cup of hot coffee. As I approached my car heading to work, the beautiful breeze blew across my facial construct, […]

One of Nigeria’s most prominent anti-corruption coalitions, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), has urged the chairman,Code of Conduct Bureau to immediately prosecute the immediate past Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for “abuse of […]

Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher, once gave a remarkable admonishment: ‘Study the past if you would define the future.’ And for Edmund Burke, once we take historical knowledge for granted, then we are doomed to […]

ENUGU – Igbo youths Saturday warned some leaders of the South East zone not negotiate with the Federal Government on their behalf over the mass protests for the actualisation of the Biafran Republic. The warning […]

The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, Sani […]

Hussein Baba Yusuf, justice of the federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Abuja, on Friday granted Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), bail. Dasuki, who is facing a 19-count charge of criminal breach of […]

A leader from Okerenkoko community, Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Michael Johnny said on Friday that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) never sat and approved N13 billion for the […]

KADUNA – Former governor of Lagos state, now National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked for the immediate removal fuel subsidy. Tinubu who made the demand while speaking yesterday […]

Sanctioning an increase in tariff before addressing all the issues, especially those to do with protection of the consumer is not wise. In the absence of a competitive environment, we must have an independently prepared […]

There is never a scarcity of shocking events, revelations, encounters and experiences in the course of the interesting times we seem destined to live in. But nothing can perhaps be more shocking than a recent […]

Pupils in Lagos State will from January eat once a day on the government’s account, Governor. Akinwunmi Ambode said yesterday. Ambode announced the commencement of the “A-Meal-a-Day” programme in public primary schools, when he presented […]

THAT you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser on or about 17th April […]

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said all youths in the country are not entitled to the N5, 000 monthly stipend promised by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government. The minister […]

Ibrahim Buba of a federal high court in Lagos has fixed January 18, 2016 for the trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, former director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). The Economic and Financial […]

In one of his town hall meetings with the  people of Kaduna State, the Governor, Nasir El-Rufai stated among other things that he was set to tackle youth unemployment. To this end,  he announced that […]

From the Maitatsine riots of 1981 to the Boko Haram insurgency mostly in the North-East, the Igbo have been, disproportionately when compared with Nigerians from other ethnic groups, the greatest victims of wanton acts of […]

The National Population Commission has ruled out the feasibility of the national population and housing census scheduled for 2016, blaming late preparation and inadequacy of other resources for the project. Speaking at a recent media […]

Federal Government has said it will not discontinue with the graduate internship scheme, adding that the programme helps to minimise the rate of unemployment in the country. Project Director, GIS, Mr. Peter Papka, stated this […]

PART I. INTRODUCTION Social media are computer mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information or career interests, ideas and pictures/video’s in virtual communities and networks Buetlner,R(2015). The growth of the social […]

This column had been distracted from its original plan last week. One had quickly had to change course when a fellow columnist with The Punch, Abimbola Adelakun, came out on the back page of her […]