Issues/Policy

As the October 31st deadline for the enrolment for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) ended yesterday, many banks across the federation were swarmed with customers on Friday to complete their BVN just as many closed […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal has fixed November 9 for the arraignment of a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsdey Orubebe, on a four-count charge bordering on breach of the Code of Conduct Bureau […]

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has ordered all its serving officers to declare their assets, The Nation has learnt. The directive came just as the service retired 29 senior officers in addition to five others […]

A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, has alleged that Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, sabotaged the former president by failing to promote his image […]

Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES have shown how the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, wrote to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, seeking the disqualification of […]

The appeal court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the appeal of Senate President Bukola Saraki against his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The court on Friday dismissed the argument of Saraki that […]

A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, has alleged that Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, sabotaged the former president by failing to promote his image […]

THE United Nations marks its 70th birthday today with the world facing severe, concurrent and interconnected crises. A resurgence in armed conflicts and terrorism is taking root in places with weak, exclusionary, and corrupt governance. […]

In what appears a protest against the leadership style of the newly appointed Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hamid Ali, all five Deputy Comptroller-Generals of the Nigerian Customs have resigned. In an unprecedented move […]

Barely 24 hours to the deadline for Bank Verification Number, BVN, less than half of the 52 million bank customers have been registered, a development that may have caused discomfort in the banking industry. About 26 […]

The clamour for secession of the Eastern territory out of Nigeria has suddenly become strident once again. After strident campaign in parts of the South East zone by some activists on the platform of the […]

My heart was really burdened this past week by the news from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) that Ghana has overtaken Nigeria as the world’s largest exporter of yams. Nigeria has a larger […]

WERE it to be a human being, it would have protested violently the terrible fate that has become its lot. It is clearly not by its own design. No. It is all part of the […]

THIS must be one of the strangest things coming from the APC government of Muhammadu Buhari. The government has just shocked the civilised world with its plan to try the former National Security Adviser (NSA), […]

WARRI—THE Itsekiri ethnic nationality of Warri, Delta State, has dissociated itself from the calls for creation of a Biafra Republic out of Nigeria as being drummed by some Igbo interest groups in the South-East. The […]

ABUJA—Disturbed by the recurring and perennial traffic gridlock along the Oshodi-Apapa Express-way, Senate has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, commence the reactivation of rail lines at Apapa ports for evacuation […]

Non-remittance of cash alleged Where is the N1trillion forfeited cash with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)? Has the cash been remitted into government coffers? Was it diverted?