Issues/Policy
Open Letter To IKEDC
To whom it may concern. Please treat as urgent Hello my name is Franklin. I live at Oremeji str Ekoro Road Abule Egba Lagos under your distribution area and I am very disappointed and infuriated […]
News
2023: Aspirants Lobby US To Support Igbos Presidential Bid
An array of potential presidential aspirants stormed the United States to lobby support for election of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023, a move similar to the global campaign undertaken by members of […]
Editorial
Mindless Killings of Police Personnel
A recent report about the killing with reckless abandon of police personnel while in the line of duty is a frightening development. One media tally put the figure at 101 with Rivers, Bayelsa, Edo, Kaduna […]
Issues/Policy
Biafra: Fifty Years After By Tony Ademiluyi
January 15, which is in about 24 hours’ time, will mark the 50th year anniversary of the Nigerian Civil War which was fought between Nigerian forces and the secessionist Biafran side led by Lt-Col. Chukwuemeka […]
Issues/Policy
In Memory of Mrs Abosede Ransome-Kuti By Femi Falana
The late Dr. Bekololari Ransome-Kuti had lived a life of activism. As a young medical doctor in the 1980s, he was in the forefront of the campaign of the Nigerian Medical Association for quality health […]
Health
Is Health Minister Celebrating Deaths of HIV Patients? (1) By Braimoh Bello
December 1 is the World AIDS Day – a day set aside by the World Health Organisation to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Although it is ceremoniously marked on a day, the entire month […]
Issues/Policy
SIM Card: Man Sues Buhari’s Daughter, DSS, Demands N500m
A trader, Anthony Okolie, who was arrested by the Department of State Services and detained for 10 weeks, has sued the DSS for N500m. Okolie, in a suit filed before the Federal High Court in […]
News
‘Lagos Should Account For Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge Toll’
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has asked the Lagos State Government and the Lekki Concession Company to state the amount of money they have generated since they began to operate the tollgate […]
Government
Buhari’s Children Not Authorised To Use Presidential Jets By Femi Falana
On October 27, 2016 the Presidency confirmed the newspaper reports of the planned sale of the two Presidential aircraft, a Falcon 7x executive jet and Hawker 4000. In a press statement issued by the Presidency […]
Issues/Policy
PMNews: Aso Rock Hammers Columnist Shaka Momodu, You’ll Pity Him
In an opinion piece, titled Shaka Momodu, a columnist as hater-in-chief, presidential media adviser Femi Adesina denounces the writer for hateful articles on Buhari that are often replete with lies: For many years, week after […]
Issues/Policy
Never Again By Wole Soyinka
Last year October, about a week after the nation space that we have generously agreed to refer to as Nigeria, celebrated her 59th year of Independence from colonial rule, I found myself at the Athens […]
Issues/Policy
Never Again Should Nigeria Lose Another 2.5 million People To War – Soyinka
Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s only Nobel Laureate has warned that the nation cannot afford to lose another 2.5 million people to war as it did 50 years ago to the Nigerian Civil War. He spoke […]
International
Ukraine Asks Iran To Punish Those Responsible For Shooting Down Passenger Aircraft By Ebunoluwa Olafusi
Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky says Iran must bring those responsible for bringing down the Ukrainian passenger plane to justice. Speaking via Twitter, Zelensky said Iran is expected to issue an official apology, return all dead […]
International
Britain Summons Iranian Ambassador Over Detention of Its Envoy
The British government has summoned Iran’s ambassador over the arrest of Rob Macaire, its envoy in Tehran. Britain condemned the arrest of the UK ambassador, describing it as a “flagrant violation of international law”. Macaire […]
Business
PremiumTimes INTERVIEW: 60% of NEXIM’s Strategic Plan Is To Promote Intra-African Trade – MD
The Nigeria Export-Import bank (NEXIM) is one of Nigeria’s specialized financial institutions dedicated to promoting exports and imports through the provision of credits to small and medium enterprises to grow the economy. Its managing director, […]
Issues/Policy
I Want A New Country, Not Another One By Owei Lakemfa
MANY Nigerians want to leave. That is why a citizen would gather a lot of money and pay a human trafficker to be taken through the horrors of the desert with the possibility of dying […]
Issues/Policy
How Nigerian Asylum Seeker ‘Spent 21 Years Sleeping On London Buses’ By Ebunoluwa Olafusi
A Nigerian man, Sunny (not real name), spent 21 years living aboard buses in London after his asylum application was rejected, BBC reports. While seeking asylum, Sunny was reportedly full of gratitude “for a second […]
Editorial
Punch: Completing The Polio Eradication Feat
FOR the second time in three years, Nigeria is on the cusp of securing a clean break from its association with an infamous trio of poliovirus transmitting countries that includes Afghanistan and Pakistan. Until India […]
Issues/Policy
Unemployment: Toying With Ticking Time Bomb | Punch
WITH a forecast by the World Bank that Africa’s most populous country urgently requires millions of jobs to avert an implosion, it should be all hands on deck, to promote inclusive economic growth. Describing the […]
International
More Than A Million Britons Buying Cannabis Illegally To Treat Illness | The Times
Nearly a quarter of a million people with arthritis, 100,000 cancer patients and 50,000 multiple sclerosis sufferers are among 1.4 million unwell Britons who are being forced to buy cannabis illegally to treat their symptoms. […]