Issues/Policy

Three persons were feared dead yesterday when fire razed the second floor of a six-storey building at Balogun Market on Lagos Island. The fire, which started at 10am, was caused by an electrical surge. It […]

Fourteen persons died and many others were injured at Ogunmakin on the Lagos – Ibadan expressway in two crashes. The crash on Wednesday  night, involved a trailer carrying 27 people as well as cows and another […]

Port harcourt—A media rights group, Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, have called for the immediate release of  Vanguard newspaper columnist, Donu Kogbara, who was kidnapped […]

In its bid to ensure free flow of traffic across the metropolis, officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have been directed to adopt the system of booking traffic offenders, rather than apprehending […]

FOLLOWING the death of three persons, when a trailer fell off Ojuelegba bridge last Wednesday, Lagos residents have called on the relevant authorities to regulate the movement of heavy duty trucks in Lagos State, saying […]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, African statesman, President Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania strongly advocated what he called “Nation building” for fragile post-Colonial African states. The fragility of these states soon became obvious […]

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has, in a way of justifying what many have described as a total waste of its administrations first 100 days in office with little or nothing to […]

IF  only we knew that the entire world was watching us, we would have realised that it is too early to begin to derail the anti-graft war, which we all agreed upon a few months […]

IT has become an alarming trend that protesters have now found the nation’s major automotive expressways as the best places to take their grievances to. These protesters, mostly the youth and women, carry placards. Chanting […]

LET’S forget about politics and politicians – just for a while. Let’s take our minds off the crashing oil prices and the battered Naira, the dizzying figures of the cash laid at the foot of […]

Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican that rose to become not only a French General in his early twenties but the Emperor of the French Empire by age thirty had even his defeats magnified. After his first […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday announced its support for the activities of the American University of Nigeria Yola with a grant of $801, 000 for the education of Internally Displaced […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will focus in coming years on tackling Africa’s chronic power shortages to try to unlock the continent’s economic potential and end its vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices, its new […]

  The Buhari campaign organization ran on the premise of a popular slogan – change. They purported that his administration will be different from the rest and that it will herald the dawn of a […]

If you have been in a traffic jam in any Nigerian city, or Go Slow as Lagosians call it, you will have seen them. And if you have seen one of them gridlocks you have […]

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali looks at how Nigeria is coping without a cabinet. It is now three months since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president of Nigeria […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s seemingly grudging gesture in appointing a few southerners into the presidency and security staff can neither escape attention nor censure. Of the 12 or 13 appointments so far in the presidency, only […]

I recall that while growing up, guys had some silly way of explaining away forceful sexual encounters with girls. Having been brought up to believe that women would naturally turn down advances even if they […]

CHUKWU DAVID examines the decision of the Senate to investigate the power sector from 1999 to date The Senate, on Thursday, August 13, constituted a 13-man ad hoc Committee to carry out an in-depth and […]