Op.Ed pieces and columnists
FRANCIS AGBO writes on the political ambition of Mohammed Buba Marwa, governorship candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa State for tomorrow’s polls. He is respected in the country. In Borno and Lagos states where he had h...
The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, in this interview with CHIMA AKWAJA, speaks on the activities of her ministry in the last six months. At your first public forum with the media, you admitted that there is a gap be...
What would have made a woman so heartless as to mete out the kind of punishment that would lead to the death of her child? How stubborn or disobedient can a child be to warrant death as punishment? These were the questions on the lips of nurses and doc...
Life is like a journey with an unpredictable destination. The Spanish poet and playwright, Antonio Machado (1875 – 1939) aptly captured life’s unpredictability in his poem: “Oh Time, oh Still and Now, pregnant with things impending. Y...
The residents of Lakpyana Yusuf Road in Dokodza, Bida, Niger State might lose their houses and the land they have lived on for so many years if the gully erosion that threatens the area continues at its current rate. The erosion which...
Doubtless that it changed the government and governed relationship, the echoes of the one-week strike over the hike in the pump price of fuel still reverberate across every sphere of the nation’s life. Things have changed and NICK UDENTA captures...
As far as I am concerned, based on the evidence that was adduced in court, this man had absolutely nothing to do with the killing of Kudirat Abiola When I heard that Major Hamza Al Mustapha was convicted of murder and sentenced to hanging by a Lagos Hi...
Achieving a polio-free country this year would remain elusive if the setbacks to the realisation of this dream are not addressed, writes WINIFRED OGBEBO. As Nigeria reaches the deadline for polio eradication this year, there are rising concerns w...
The events of the last few weeks following the announcement of the removal of fuel subsidy brought to the fore the angst of Nigerians against the government, its policies and programmes. In this interview with CHINYERE FRED-ADEGBULUGBE and SHUAIB SHUAI...
Saidu Dauda, a 24 year-old national of Niger Republic had come to Nigeria in search of greener pastures. The precarious economic situation and the long drought that devastated farms and livestock had forced a lot of young people to leave the country. D...
Journalists in Nigeria as in other climes work round the clock to inform and educate the society. But contrary to how journalists in other environments are treated, Nigerian journalists could hardly be well catered for. PAUL DADA examines the need for ...
Mysteries are usually inexplicable and irresolvable. Some become clearer to discerning minds after efforts are made at unravelling them; others are never unravelled. Most mysteries are natural, while others are man-made. Natural or God-made mysteries a...
Health is wealth they say, but some people neglect the basic hygienic rules to make money in order to earn a living. Kehinde Ajobiewe takes a look at the hazards posed on scavenger in their quest for survival. For 14-year-old Abuba Suleiman who wakes u...
There are wide range of new technologies available for increasing the productivity and diversity of the Nigerian economy with the potency not only of meeting the ever growing domestic demand but also possibility of assisting sister African economies. T...
Yesterday, a full panel of the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher delivered a unanimous judgment on the contentious issue of tenure elongation. In its verdict, the apex court ruled against tenure elongatio...