Issues/Policy

It is unlikely that there would have been this much controversy if government positions were truly perceived in terms of responsibility and service rather than power, privilege and prestige. Our national struggle with graft is […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has issued a fresh query to Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, based on a petition written against her to the National Judicial Council by the Osun Civil Societies Coalition. […]

I know that the immediate and spontaneous reaction to this topic is a question that will sound like this: Is decapitation the cure to headache? Some readers, not those already discussing its scrapping would say […]

So many Nigerians lost their lives in celebration of the change that had come to liberate them from what they considered the nauseating impunity of the People Democratic Party. Little did they know that though […]

Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode yesterday signed and approved the release of 2,500 Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) to property owners. The Executive Secretary in the Lands Bureau, Mr. Olukayode Ogunnubi, said the development […]

In 16 years, N2.740 trillion went down the drain in the power sector, Senators heard yesterday. This was the submission of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, at the Senate’s two-day investigative […]

Hello Uncle Jimi, I’m special fan of yours and a “devotee” of newspaper review because, I listen religiously to the program because I followed you right from TVC , (when it used to be you […]

  After the 2015 election, I predicted on Twitter that when critical decisions are to be taken, Yemi Osinbajo, the token Southerner in Aso Rock, would be sent to go and buy “guguru and epa.” […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday gave reasons why the Nigeria’s civil service had been declining over the years. He blamed it on the inability to clearly articulate a vision and inability of the service to […]

Nigeria has deported the 119 Togolese asylum seekers who have been refugees their whole lives, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRA) said yesterday. The group of Togolese came to Nigeria in July after Benin Republic, […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that worsening level of unemployment, poverty and unresolved conflict across the African continent are major threats responsible for increasing illegal migration from Africa, through Mediterranean, to Europe by Africans, […]

THE executive power of the Federal Government vested in the President of Nigeria by section 5 of the Constitution is a frightfully enormous power. In terms of its extent, it embraces all the eight functions […]

An intellectual group, Ebira Professionals, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on Ajaokuta Steel Company to save the nation’s economy. Speaking to Vanguard at the end the group’s extra-ordinary […]

Even though the Nigeria Police has yet to advertise vacancies for 10, 000 slots as directed by President Buhari, scammers have begun to play their game. A syndicate now seeks N100, 000 or N150, 000 […]

The Nigerian Unemployed Youth Vanguard (NUYV) yesterday disclosed that it has completed plans to sue the immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, over alleged fraud in the Centenary […]

We all have a reason for doing what we do. Otherwise the gruelling hours and the discipline that we have to put into our jobs would be pointless. Most of us spend incredibly long hours […]

Ekiti State Government has proposed a new law that would send kidnappers to life imprisonment. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, said the decision was part of the resolutions […]

Thirty-five persons have been killed, while 104 others were injured in 38 road crashes involving 260 people in Bauchi State between July and August this year. According to the report, a breakdown of the statistics […]