Issues/Policy

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 […]

The age of the New Media is characterised by, among other appurtenances, the ubiquity of digital devices that enable us to grasp fleeting moments and freeze them into evidence. This easy accessibility to proof generated […]

  By November 29, precisely six months after assuming office, President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers would have be hard put to explain why images of corruption, inherited from former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration still […]

 Group slams FG over Kanu’s detention  Traders woo Buhari  Uwazurike hosts Bianca Ojukwu By Nwabueze Okonkwo & Chimaobi Nwaiwu Nnewi—The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has […]

The fuel queues are back – as if you didn’t know that already. The tragedy isn’t just that OPEC’s one-time sixth largest exporter of crude has again suffered another crushing relapse of the familiar plague […]

If, as is likely, Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, then a legal question to be decided by INEC and the courts is unquestionably […]

The importance of the Bank Verification Number cannot be over-emphasised. It is however important to alert banks in Nigeria on the need to pay keen attention if we must avoid the usual impunity involved in […]

Without a shred of doubt, the Nigerian judiciary has been more of a foe than a friend; it is too consumed with financial consideration which is the reason we have cases going on for decades […]

A younger friend’s ‘factory’ was closed down last month by officers of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service. It took him over two weeks to get it reopened. What the service demanded from him would wipe […]

One thing we must not deny ourselves is the right to know the history of our nation. History is such an important subject that only idiots or clowns will not appreciate its significance. Many young […]

THE population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast has risen to 2.2 million, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said yesterday. UNHCRs Representative to Nigeria Ms Angele Dikongue- Atangana gave the […]

The Federal Government is to pay N92.4million severance package to the 16 retired Permanent Secretaries following their disengagement from the civil service. A 12-month breakdown of the above shows that each of the Permanent Secretaries will […]

Immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, may have been flown abroad for the treatment of undisclosed ailment, The Nation learnt yesterday. Lamorde, who was scheduled to appear […]

These days, almost every Nigerian with a computer keyboard and the ability to formulate any sentence in English (no matter the quality) is a political analyst. Such self-styled talents and geniuses parade themselves on private […]