Issues/Policy

SOME of our monarchs, to be more elastic, the traditional rulers, do not realise that they are losing grips on their residual authorities. They do not see themselves through the same lenses as their subjects […]

Joe Onwukeme, a public affairs analyst, reflects on the role of religion in Nigeria’s political terrain, concluding that Nigerians need to come together as one, irrespective of religious, ethnic or party affiliations, for the country […]

The Lagos State Government is constrained to respond to an article titled,” Lekki Toll: Biggest Fraud Ever Conceived and Committed” published in The Herald of 13th February, 2015, and many other online platforms. This has become […]

SOCIAL scientists determine ethnicity to be an artificial construct based on shared beliefs of identity created over time. Groups (and their leaders) create certain beliefs in order to implement political strategies and control their followers. […]

It is bad enough that at a time that we should have put the 2015 elections behind us, and be eagerly awaiting the swearing-in of a newly elected president, state governors and legislators, Nigerians are […]

Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard for Nigeria’s current political season—with all the consequences and implications of that designation. Nigeria has […]

The office of the First Lady in Nigeria was made popular by the late Maryam Babangida when she made it a quasi-rival to that of her husband. Through her ‘Better Life for Rural Women’, she […]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the factors that would likely inhibit General Muhammadu Buhari from occupying Aso Rock in June. The reaction I got surprised me. People I had not heard from […]

The negative public reactions and commentaries that have trailed the inconclusive 11th Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Delegates Conference election on Thursday morning of February 12, 2015 constitute food for thought for comrades and activists of […]

Patience Jonathan and the PDP’s army of flamethrowers are a gift to APC. By reducing the 2015 presidential campaign to a contest of who can hurl the coarsest insults they do more damage to their […]

We have about 3 weeks now left for the Security Services to perfect the magic they claimed they were going to perform in Sambisa. We have just 21 days to see the end of the […]

PREMIUM TIMES has watched with consternation the proceedings in the Senate regarding the confirmation of one of President Goodluck Jonathan’s latest nominees for ministerial appointment in his cabinet: Senator Musiliu Obanikoro. Our consternation has to […]

Your Excellency please let me start by emphasising the fact that this is my very first letter to you since destiny elevated you and your husband to the highest positions in Nigeria. It may be […]

Human Right activist and delegate to the 2014 National Conference, Yinka Odumakin, has berated Mr Femi Falana for his recent statement  that no request of the Southwest caucus to the Congress sailed through, even as […]

Some fellow Niger Deltans have told me that they are very disappointed in me because I am supporting Buhari’s election bid, rather than Jonathan’s. And it may surprise you to hear that I know how […]

  One would naturally feel proud to share the same Alma Matar with the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, Akinwunmi Akinbode. It is even double in our case because we were […]

In less than three months, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, (SAN), will vacate the posh office of the Governor of Lagos State after the mandatory two terms of eight years. By May 29 this year he […]

  If there is one issue that has generated undue controversy on the 2015 general elections in the country, it is the deployment of troops to provide security during the elections. Those, who opposed the […]

  The discovery that the suspected female suicide bomber lynched by irate mob at the popular Muda Lawal market in Bauchi metropolis on Sunday, March 1, was, after all, not a ter­rorist, has left tears […]

  It was with rapt attention that President Goodluck Jonathan listened to the briefing by Mr Godwin Emefiele on why the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had to unify the foreign exchange markets by scrapping […]