Issues/Policy

In this concluding part of the interview with Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president speaks about the Boko Haram insurgency, his relationship with Tony Anenih, and his grouse with the Nigerian media, and people like Reuben […]

CONSANGUINEOUS relations are usually celebrated in Nigeria, because when you are related by blood to a person, there are family obligations and expectations that you look out for one another. Last week, when the respected […]

India was in a mess in the early 1990’s due to her decades of the pursuit of socialism which had become a clog in the wheel of her economic growth and development. Manhomman Singh, an […]

NO magical  prescience  is  needed  to  arrive at  the fact  that  in  the next four years,  Muhammadu Buhari’s success as  the nation’s president would be determined  to a large extent by how much he fights corruption. At  the last general elections, many Nigerians […]

I read in the media recently, that President Muhammadu Buhari is to implant the office of ombudsman as one of the multiple measures to combat corruption in the country. If it turns out to be […]

I want the Igbo nation, where I come from, to play opposition politics in Nigeria at least for the next ten years so that the world will take them serious once again in matters of […]

One of the greatest and most respected modern historians that ever lived, an Englishman by the name of Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper of Oxford University, once described the history of black Africa as being “darkness, nothing […]

Did the government of Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, leave the newly elected administration facing a 7 trillion naira (USD$35 billion) deficit in 2015? Nigeria’s newspapers were awash with headlines such as “Jonathan left N7 […]

In the run up to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the US, there were palpable fears among Nigerians that the visit was structured for President Barack Obama to arm-twist the Nigerian president into reversing […]

I write to notify you, Mr. Jimi Disu, to please use your medium on classic radio and the Blog to address this suspected fraud and fowl play in the issuance of cerpac form. Cerpac is […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is reported to have recently lambasted former President Goodluck Jonathan for lack of vision in the implementation of his policy on the railways. He said that the decision by that […]

Biafra is not the Igbo nation, but the Igbo nation was part of Biafra. I think those agitating for BIAFRA should clearly state what Biafra is. And to make Biafra a reality, all Igbo speaking […]

  Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, took some time off his busy schedule to speak to a PREMIUM TIMES team at his Abeokuta home about some of the issues he wrote about in his book, […]

“…. whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned” –         President Mohammadu Buhari on March 11, 2015 at a Campaign rally in Kaduna “The right thing to do […]

We arrived Abeokuta in the first ink of dusk, at about 5pm. We were visiting the city’s most iconic figure, the white-haired, white-bearded, tall, grand fellow of many battles and accolades. Before we made the […]

It will shock Nigerians to know that more people have died as a result of Fulani/indigene clashes in the last half a decade than have died from terrorist activity occasioned by the Boko Haram terrorist […]

According to Transparency International, a global movement against corruption, understanding corruption is the first step in fighting it. But what is corruption? Corruptie.org, another anti-corruption organisation, simply defines corruption as the misuse of entrusted power […]

The ongoing strike action embarked upon by the Imo State workers as a result of their unpaid salaries must have added more injuries to the economic woes of the state. Government offices and activities were […]

Millions of Nigerians are heading toward defectively funded retirement, leaving a lot of them cynical about pension plans in the country and how the pension system works because they don’t want to lose their many […]

  Because I would be driving to the airport last Friday morning and I was not sure the fuel in my car would take me there, I decided on Thursday evening to buy fuel from […]