By Kazeem Ugbodaga Application for International Passports dropped by 80.43 percent in 2017, statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has revealed. According to the report, the Immigration Statistics for 2017 reflected that a […]
A bill seeking to prohibit the issuance of estimated electricity bill to electricity consumers in the country has passed second reading at the house of representatives. The Electric power sector reform act (amendment bill), sponsored […]
It would have been worthwhile if the government would open up a public discourse on what has been done and what remained to be done in response to the imperatives of the social contract in […]
President Buhari’s intention to run for a second term is within his rights. It is left for the electorate to endorse or reject him Although the announcement that he would seek re-election came, not directly […]
The move by the National Assembly (NASS) to stop the importation of vehicles for official use is a step in the right direction and should be supported in the national interest. Nigeria’s insatiable appetite for […]
Mr Kayode Oguntuase, Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, said the ban on rice and vehicles importation through the land border was for the benefit of Nigerians. He said this in a statement issued by the […]
The Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC, has said that the recent disengagement of some workers at the embassy followed due process. Senior officials at the embassy told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the […]
The compelling need to restructure Nigeria for efficiency, unity and development is something that all citizens should take as a crusade and insist on if their future would have any meaning. As this newspaper once […]
The recent economic report of the International Monetary Fund IMF on Nigeria is certainly not too reassuring. The report asserts that Nigerians are getting poorer, particularly since the inception of the current All Progressive Congress, […]
The present economic templates being used by the Muhammadu Buhari government do not have the ability to address the unique needs of Nigerians at present, American business magnate, Bill Gates, has said. The philanthropist and […]
f Britain hadn’t voted to leave the EU, and Trump hadn’t won the US election, it’s unlikely anyone outside Nigeria would have given a second thought to what went on during its presidential election campaign […]
The American founding fathers gathered in Connecticut some time in 1787 in order to fashion a constitution that would herald a new union. One very contentious issue they were confronted with was how to reconcile […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said Nigeria has become too solid as a country for any force, calamity or misgovernance to destroy it. Mr. Obasanjo, who spoke exclusively to PREMIUM TIMES from Azerbaijan where […]
You can only be worried if the loans are not appropriately utilised. My personal concern is that we are not collecting the loans with a proper debt analysis. When you do a proper debt analysis […]
One of the propositions of Leftists’ theory of history is that human beings are the makers of their own history. A corollary to this – that human beings do not make this history simply as […]
Every time a Nigerian governor launches wheel barrow or tricycle empowerment, I shudder in fear as I remember how we descended on that American twenty years ago for daring to imagine that we’d still be […]
The U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, will arrive in Abuja on Monday for his first official visit to Nigeria. A Press Advisory from the U.S. Embassy said Mr. Tillerson would hold talks with President […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest report on Nigeria, averred that despite the recovery of the nation’s economy from recession, more Nigerians were sliding into poverty. The Bretton Wood Institution’s report came a […]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the weekend dismissed allegations of nepotism and clannishness levelled against President Muhammadu Buhari, arguing that Southerners and Christians have benefitted more than Northerners and Muslims in his cabinet. Osinbajo, who made […]
Despite Nigeria’s recovery from economic recession after the second quarter of 2017, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, says Nigerians are getting poorer. The fund said economic reforms are urgently needed to put the nation on […]
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