Issues/Policy

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 […]

A study by General Electric has established that Nigeria’s young population can be put to better use. The study, dubbed: Skills White Paper, is targeted at improving the capacity of Nigeria to harness the potential […]

The former administration of Goodluck Jonathan spent billions of naira and millions of dollars on efforts to equip the Nigerian military against Boko Haram, but there was rampant “abuse of trust”, President Muhammadu Buhari has […]

Some prominent Nigerians on Wednesday called for restraint and dialogue in tackling the ongoing secessionist agitation for a breakaway Biafra republic from Nigeria. The elders said dialogue, rather than violence, remained the best way to […]

Because of the controversy surrounding the subject of genetically modified organisms in Nigeria and the world, I feel constrained to state my stand before I start this treatise. My position is reflected in my previous […]

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged the Federal Government to employ more diplomacy in handling the agitation for the Republic of Biafra. Soyinka said statements like “Nigeria is indivisible”, “This won’t happen under my watch,” […]

LAGOS—THE umbrella body for senior public servants in the country, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday in Lagos, accused the state governors of using the threat to reduce the N18,000 minimum wage […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday slammed a 43-count charge on former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd); former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda; former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and his son, […]

For the faint-hearted, available statistics on Nigeria’s housing deficit paint a grim picture while for the incurable optimist, they present limitless opportunities. Available data (for 2014) from the World Bank and the National Bureau of […]

The last four years have been immensely challenging for our security personnel and indeed, Nigerians. These have been the years when terrorism visited our streets, offices, public places and our places of worship with callous […]

Like some tiny bits of an intriguing puzzle, Nigerians may have only begun to make some sense of yet another chapter of the Jonathan-era malfeasance described as armsgate. As it were, armsgate would surely qualify […]

Knowing how mercilessly they had butchered the national treasury, they came prepared to meet President Buhari toe to toe,  deliberately mis-characterising his determined anti-corruption war as nothing more than  targeting  PDP  top shots.  No, far […]

ABUJA— A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, expressed frustration with the inability of Nigeria to investigate and punish all who were implicated in the Halliburton bribery […]

IN AMERICA, a common complaint of civil-rights activists is that the police treat “driving while black” like a crime. In many countries in Africa, the same crime is simply “driving”. The trouble is not discrimination, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he enlisted the assistance of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to mediate in the political crisis in Guinea Bissau because of his wide political and military experience. A statement issued […]

The family of the founder of Daar Communications PLC, owners of Raypower and AIT broadcast stations, Raymond kpesi, on Saturday said the N2.1 billion received by their patriarch from a former National Security Adviser, NSA, […]

MOST Nigerians do not remember their country’s civil war. A large majority were born years after the 30-month fight between Nigeria and the breakaway region of Biafra, which ended when the secessionists surrendered in 1970. […]