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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigerian leaders must be tough and “ready to bite the bullet”. Speaking at a seminar in Kaduna state on Monday, Obasanjo said we have not made progress as a nation […]

Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Ajayi Boroffice, representing Ondo North Senatorial District, tells LEKE BAIYEWU about his life, family and politics How did you become a lawmaker in the National Assembly? My journey […]

ActionAid holds firmly to the necessity for public affairs to be made open and fully transparent. It is only when information is laid bare that stakeholders and the generality of citizens are able to make […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday assured that the National Assembly will not enact any law that will “stifle the freedom of worship”. Saraki gave the assurance in an address during the formal closing ceremony for […]

THERE is need for subvention and trust fund to efficiently run the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, the institution’s visitation panel has said. The visitation panel was inaugurated on Friday, Octobr […]

Rather than ignite something he could not finish thereby bringing himself embarrassment, perhaps 2Face should have limited himself to his accustomed musical arena. He could, for instance, have composed a single speaking to the moment. […]

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday confirmed the recovery of 9.75 million dollars and 750,000 pounds from a residence in Kaduna state. He also confirmed that N1.25 […]

Despite extending his medical leave abroad, President Muhammadu Buhari “is not in any serious condition as to worry about,” his media aide, Garba Shehu told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday. The explanation comes hours after the president […]

I consider the proposed protest in the country to be apt at this moment, and I fully support it. While there is the possibility of its being hijacked by miscreants and one is not largely […]

The Bayelsa House of Assembly has approved a N3 billion loan request from the state government to purchase cars for legislators and other political office holders. The Speaker of the House, Kombowei Benson, who confirmed […]

From America first, mass deportation, racism to fascist tendencies like the ban on Muslims entering America, Trump appears to be rehashing Hitler’s Germany and thus taking America and indeed the world back to the pre-Second […]

…if you like remove ten zeros from the naira, you are deceiving yourself. In no time, our habits, compromises, self-deception and wickedness, will shortly send us where we belong or where we deserve – at […]

Of all the appraisals and endorsements Emerging Africa has received at home and abroad, I have found Chu Okongwu’s amplification the most gratifying. On top of (or perhaps despite?) his technical mastery of economic science, […]

What lofty and enduring dream could sprout in us when we have become accustomed to squalor, habituated to decrepitude, made our peace with detritus? What hope is there for us when we fetishise Dubai and […]

The collapse of the transmission infrastructure has worsened power supply as generation averaged 1,681.36 megawatts yesterday, down from a peak of 3,131.1 megawatts generated before the system collapsed on Sunday night, dropping generation to 10 […]

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Omoyele Sowore, founder of New York, United States-based online medium, SaharaReporters, over a petition by a magazine publisher, Lekan Fatodu. Sowore was reportedly arrested on Wednesday after he […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described the N5,000 the federal government said it had started paying to the poor in Nigeria as a mere propaganda.   The governor, in a statement on Tuesday […]

The police panel, probing the violence that rocked the December 10, 2016, legislative rerun in Rivers State, may treat the telephone conversation between Governor Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti State counterpart, Ayodele Fayose, as an […]

It is heartening that even though the land reform issue will benefit quite a lot from the repealing of the Land Use Act of 1978, a genuinely committed government which is ready for change can […]