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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has named the policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as one of the reasons for the scarcity of passport booklets In the country. The Comptroller-General of NIS, Idris […]

Femi Adesina, with forty-four days to leave the office of Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, has dropped some words for Nigerians counting the remaining days with glee. In his article titled […]

The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a […]

It is a pattern we have come to recognise whenever election is around the corner. Religious leaders step in and play a role in their diverse ways – generally controversial, mostly divisive. Some of them […]

As Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria is strategically positioned to be a significant player in the global economy. Given the right support and the fact that the country is potentially fertile ground for massive growth and […]

I saw a very chilling video on Monday. In it, a man who did not bother to hide his identity threatened some people he did not name about this weekend’s governorship elections. He said that […]

There is no shortage of headline-grabbing soundbites about how the government is going to halt the trade of smugglers who bring desperate people across the Channel in dinghies. Ever since the then home secretary Sajid […]

I was not a child when the first military putsch in January 1966 took place. I was in fact a gentleman in my final year of undergraduate university education at the age of 23 plus […]

With last Saturday’s kidnap of 20 train passengers at the Tom Ikimi/Ekehen Station in Igueben, Edo State and several cases of vandalism of rail infrastructure across the country lately, Nigerians are beginning to express worries […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the inauguration of its 422- member Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), earlier scheduled for Monday, Sept. 26, to Wednesday, Sept. 28. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC […]

The British pound reached an all-time low against the US dollar on Monday. The development is coming less than a week since the pound plummeted to $1.13 — its lowest level since 1985 — before […]

With Nigeria’s tortuous democratic transition to the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999 hopes were high once again about the possibility of the political elites sustaining and consolidating the nascent democracy by promoting democratic values. […]

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Inc., says he is terminating the $44 billion Twitter deal, adding that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform. Musk […]

In January 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari sparked off a frenzy in an interview with Channels TV when asked about his preferred candidate in the presidential race. “I don’t have any favourite for 2023 and if […]

Good spelling is vital to good written communication. If someone is bad at spelling words, the person will not be able to do very well in writing, whether in essay, letter, comprehension or summary aspect. […]

Data published in 2017 by the National Bureau of Statistics revealed a huge and very disturbing gap in the literacy index between Southern and Northern Nigeria. These statistics showed that only 7.23% of the entire […]

Unless the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signs the fresh amendment to the Electoral Act into law by Sunday, himself, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, National Assembly members, governors, their deputies and other statutory delegates in […]

Dear Mr David Pilling, I read with interest your op-ed titled, “This is no time for neutrality in Africa on Ukraine”, published in the 25 March 2022 edition of the Financial Times. In the article, […]