Issues/Policy

Not all that glitters is gold,” is a popular adage. Yet, in Nigeria, we seem to keep trying to get gold only from glittering gems when we can save resources and accelerate development of the […]

I am yet to find a single EFCC case that was thrown out because of shoddy investigation,” commission spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said last week.  “Neither has any judge thrown out any of the Commission’s cases […]

ABUJA — The trial of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for alleged false declaration of assets turned dramatic, yesterday, as Saraki’s lawyers, comprising three Senior Advocates of Nigeria and […]

NCC needs to review the penalty, not only because it’s the common sense thing to do but also because it has a poor record of complying with its own rules – whether in the sale […]

LAGOS— THERE are indications that the newly retired officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are still in the service of the agency following the absence of a board that should rectify and approve their retirement. […]

A Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore yesterday sent a final warning to former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-kayode over insult on the Fulani race. National president of the association, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo […]

God’s special anointing may have fallen on Senator Dino Melaye on this day, November 1, 2015, as he has been on the cyber space preaching and praying for Nigeria and Nigerians. The senator representing Kogi […]

PREMIUM TIMES has obtained exclusive details of how officials at the an Abuja branch of Fidelity Bank allegedly facilitated the laundering of hundreds of millions of naira by the embattled former Chairman of the Pension […]

There was mild drama at the senate on Wednesday, as All Progressives Congress (APC) senators and those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) squabbled over a motion by Philip Aduda, senate minority leader, urging President […]

The fortunes of the Nigerian Army have of late been going down precipitously. A military force that was for a long time the pride of the country, and was deservedly celebrated for its peace keeping […]

AHEAD of November 10, marking the 20th anniversary of the death of renowned environmental activist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Amnesty International, AL, London-based human rights watchdog  and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, […]

ENUGU—The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, said its self-determination struggle remains on course. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had recently maintained that the Biafran struggle had become an avenue to […]

THE Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General of Customs as part of the on-going re-organisation in the service. In a statement by Nigerian Customs Service […]

A couple of months ago I did a post on our President’s much vaunted honesty and integrity. He’s called Mai Gaskiya on account of his inability to lie. He’s truthful to a fault and that […]

I was very angry on Friday, 23rd of October, 2015. One of my Twitter followers had tweeted a photo of an advertisement for a room to let.  What was disturbing about this to let sign […]

When an investigator sounds like he needs to be investigated, it calls into question the integrity of his investigation.  Chris Omeben, a former Deputy Inspector-General of Police who investigated the murder of Dele Giwa, the […]

Now the guns are out and blazing again. Two of Yorubaland’s – and Africa’s – most respected sons, have been feverishly loading and firing and re-loading their guns. Obasanjo, in his latest book – a […]

Help, Hardball is confronted with a chicken and egg dilemma here! In the matter of his Royal Majesty, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, one is at a loss as to what gives […]

Following the voluntary retirement of five Deputy Comptrollers-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, and 35 other officers last week, there are indications that another 400 officers will soon leave the service for various reasons […]

It cannot be said of a man who has vowed that his watch would witness the rule and execution of brilliant ideas that the state he is governing is no longer vibrant; that that state […]