Issues/Policy

There was pandemonium at the eid praying ground in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, on Thursday as aggrieved faithful went on the rampage throwing missiles in the direction of the President of the Senate, Bukola […]

It is fair to say that under President Muhammadu Buhari’s relatively short tenure, the Nigerian Financial Sector has endured its reasonable share of activity and critical scrutiny. Three major incidents have stood out, and these […]

ONE disturbing trend is developing in Nigeria: We are caught in the claws of over-registration, thus reducing every Nigerian to a number. He is a number on the assembly-line; on the pay-roll; on the school […]

THE caption aptly describes the unbridled emotions of many Nigerians who are now either in their golden years or at the shores of sea of senior citizens in America. They seemingly fret over the unknown […]

Before Dominion Rice and Integrated Farms posted a report on its experience in Nigeria, it had to deal with accusations of land grab in the Gassol area of Taraba State. This issue brings several things […]

Please, excuse what seems to be a preoccupation with the folly on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. My dad died on that road in September 2001, and it’s been tough living it down. But you really shouldn’t […]

The 54-member nations of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) rose from its yearly Forum and Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, last week to announce Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as the new Chairman. Danbatta is the Acting […]

Kidnappers reduce ransom to N90m •Ex-SGF’s house besieged •Monarchs call for peace •Agbekoyas issue 24-hour ultimatum •Condemnations trail kidnap There is tension in Ondo State over the abduction of the former Secretary to the Government […]

A former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his two sons – Aminu Sule Lamido and Mustapha Sule Lamido, were on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court in […]

So I read that National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and some CSO are planning a solidarity protest for the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The Code of Conduct Bureau Tribunal (CCBT) had invited Senator […]

There was civil unrest in Ilesa, Osun State, yesterday, following the killing of two siblings by a  policeman driving an Armour Personnel Carrier (APC.) It was gathered that the policeman lost control of the APC […]

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has begun the enforcement of the road traffic law, using the new method of booking offenders on the spot and allowing them to continue their journey without seizing the […]

Ayo Arowolo, the publisher of the defunct Moneywise magazine, revealed in an interview why he left the comforts of paid employment as a journalist to set up his business magazine. According to him, while in […]

For the past few weeks, and in particular in the past fortnight, mainland Europe has been convulsed by a migratory tremor on the scale of some epic Biblical exodus. Hordes of refugees, having lost all […]

The famous body language of President Muhammadu Buhari is still actively turning things around. The improvement in electricity supply is attributed to that body language. So, too, are fuel supply and other economic indicators, except […]

MAKING COMMON SENSE By Ben MurrayBruce, Email: ben.murraybruce@thisdaylive.com I am former President Goodluck Jonathan’s senator. He is my constituent in the Bayelsa East senatorial zone that I represent in the Senate of the National Assembly […]

The recent Sunday Vanguard carried a rather sad story of our oil industry and in the story, was a strong indictment of leadership both in Government and in the communities. The article stated very bluntly, […]

Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has challenged the Lagos State Government to protect residents of Badia East, who it said were being rendered homeless by the government. The group stated that the government must act […]