Issues/Policy

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, […]

A Bill making it an offence to write a petition against a public officer without a sworn affidavit, scaled second reading yesterday in the Senate. The bill, entitled: “An Act to prohibit frivolous petitions and […]

Mike Ozekhome, the lawyer to Raymond Dokpesi, founder of Daar Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, has said he was not aware his client received money from the office of the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki. […]

After placing him on house arrest for about a month, the State Security Services on Tuesday arrested a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, driving him away from his Abuja residence, people familiar with the […]

ABUJA—THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has advised the management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, to take the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, to the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, for them […]

They have wailed about President Buhari’s work in renovating the dilapidated nation he inherited from PDP’s Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. We all know why. They no longer have unfettered access to the nation’s resources which they […]

Our dear President, Please kindly excuse my making this letter open when I could possibly have sent it to you through a number of channels and contacts. But it is not a private letter and […]

Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed concern over the unemployment rate in the country, stressing that if urgent steps are not taking to address it, “the country may be sitting on a keg of […]

“Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko Haram, additional 34 soldiers were killed two days ago but it wasn’t in the news”– Deji Adeyanju. I concur with Mr. Deji Adeyanju. The most heartless and reprehensible […]

If the three INEC commissioners deployed, and the state electoral commissioner suddenly lost concentration, what was a supposedly erudite Professor Kucha thinking about, not knowing there was no way 25, 000 votes can overtake 41, […]

• FG didn’t tamper with salary package, says Presidency The Presidency denied yesterday that it had tampered with the remuneration of the newly appointed ministers. According to additional information received last night, the ministers’ package […]

ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in the , a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the wake of the attacks in Paris, which in fact […]

When Muhammadu Buhari clinched victory in Nigeria’s presidential elections in March, stocks soared as investors looked to the former military ruler to reverse decades of economic mismanagement and policy inertia. Now hopes have fizzled in […]

DURING his recent visit to Tehran, President Muhammadu Buhari had an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community in Iran and told them that some former government officials are voluntarily returning public funds they […]

Rather than pick a fight with labour over higher or lower wages, the governors should return to where the rain began to beat them in 2013: They should press for the decentralisation of wages. True […]

LAGOS — The crisis emerging from the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the All Progressives Congress, APC’s candidate in the Kogi State governorship election last night took a new dimension as Mr James Faleke, late […]

Ibadan—The 32-member Oyo State House of Assembly has suspended legislative duties until the state government pays the accumulated allowances owed the lawmakers. According to information gathered, the government is owing the lawmakers furniture, car allowances […]

The running mate to late Abubakar Audu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare him governor elect. James […]

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to “stop lying” that some members of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s government had started returning stolen funds. Fayose also asked the president to give details […]