Kayode Ogundamisi, a popular social activist and political commentator who campaigned for President Muhammadu Buhari as a presidential candidate in 2015, on Friday lamented that the Nigerian leader has lost the trust the people had […]
Tobacco companies in Nigeria have evolved a new strategy of deliberately targeting the younger generation by situating their products near primary and secondary schools, a new report by the Nigerian Tobacco Control Research Group has […]
There was twist of event Thursday before an Ikeja High Court when the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans and his accomplices made a u-turn and pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of […]
The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu has asked former president Goodluck Jonathan to halt his strong criticism of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]
I was named Muhammadu Saheed on the 8th day of my birth. I was boarded in a Quran school at age 4 and graduated at age 10 with a talk-of-the-town Wolimat ceremony in Ago-Iwoye. I […]
Nearly ten per cent of new-born deaths in the world last year occurred in Nigeria, a new report by the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has revealed. According to the report, five countries accounted for […]
On Wednesday morning, I had an interesting chat with my elder brother, Uche Ozoemene, on our national debt sustainability, and for the first time thought to put my position on paper. Anytime governments want to […]
IT has taken a long time, but good news is finally coming out of Syria. Raqqa, which the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had proclaimed the “capital” of its self-declared caliphate when it overran […]
A man (in his forties) contacted me, sometime back. He complained about his wife (who is in her early twenties). They have a daughter between them. According to him, she seems so absent (almost to […]
Some youth groups across the country have vowed to protest against the Federal Government’s plan to get fresh $5.5bn loan, thus adding to Nigeria’s N19.2tn debt profile. The groups described the country’s increasing debt profile […]
Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel, on Friday chronicled his escape from a recent incident that could have led to a crash of the plane that he […]
A man identified as Oluseyi Adekunle, jumped into the Lagos lagoon from the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge on Friday morning, prompting hours of search and rescue. Saturday PUNCH learnt that as of 6pm, the search for the […]
A row has broken out in Uganda over proposals to extend sex education to 10-year-olds and give some 15-year-olds access to family planning services. The Ministry of Health has refused to endorse the guidelines, which were designed […]
Nigerians voted massively for President Muhammadu Buhari. They did so because they believed he was incorruptible. And so the international community believed. When Buhari announced that there wouldn’t be any hiding place for those who […]
But are citizens really that helpless? In a region where women resisted unfair taxation by the colonial government in 1929, I’m at a loss why 88 years later and with far better educated, more enlightened […]
Pollution kills at least nine million people and costs trillions of dollars every year, according to the most comprehensive global analysis to date, which warns the crisis “threatens the continuing survival of human societies”. Toxic […]
Just as in any sci-fi disaster movie, the first signs of impending doom seem perfectly unremarkable. Someone mentions in passing he’s noticed that while driving through the countryside, or on long-distance motorway trips, his car […]
Worried about the over congestion of prisons in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria, the newly inaugurated Chief Justice of Lagos State, Justice (Mrs) Opeyemi Oke, has charged the government across board to sign death […]
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola Thuurday expressed displeasure over unresolved gridlock caused by tanker and truck along Apapa wharf road which has continued to cause pain and discomfort to Lagosian. Speaking […]
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released a regulatory framework for Bank Verification Number (BVN) operations and watch-lists for Nigerian financial system, in the quest to develop and enhance security of electronic payment systems in […]
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