How Organised Labour Deceived Nigerians
By Reuben Abati I was very skeptical when the current leadership of Organized Labour in Nigeria objected to the decision of the Federal Government to withdraw fuel subsidy and hand over the pump price of…
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Niger State’s Certificate Forgery, A National Epidemic
Punch Editorial NIGER State’s education foundation stands on an unedifying falsehood. The farce is boldly substantiated in the report of a panel, which discovered that more than three quarters of the primary and secondary school…
As APC, PDP Clash Over Oil Price Deregulation
JOHN ALECHENU takes a look at the faceoff between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party over the removal of oil subsidy by the APC-led Federal Government prior to becoming Nigeria’s…
FCMB Founder Hands Over Pediatric Hospital To UI, UCH
•Recounts day he wept over allegation of blood rituals against him By Subair Mohammed Founder of First City Monument Bank, (FCMB) and philanthropist, Otunba (Dr.) Michael Olasubomi Balogun has signed an agreement handing over the…
Concession: N1bn Loan Spent To Repair Airports, Says Minister
By Joseph Olaoluwa Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has said that N1bn was borrowed from the Chinese for the concession of the airports. Speaking at a webinar organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group on…
Edo Election, Wike, Ganduje And Nigerian Youths
By Dr. Sam Amadi Nigeria has a problem of value. This is more so with its youth. We venerate power and even impunity. We are so excited and enthused by the guys who do the…
COVID-19, Democracy And Task Of Nation Building
BY GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about great changes globally, leaving varying effects in different parts of our world. From health, economies to education, politics and sports, the effects of the pandemic…
CBN’s Maize Import Waiver And Food Security
Punch Editorial THE waivers recently granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria to four companies to import 262,000 metric tonnes of maize cast a pall over efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the staple and continue…
I Warned Bola Tinubu That This Day Will Come
By Farook Kperogi The political coalition between Muhammadu Buhari’s CPC and Bola Tinubu’s ACN has all but collapsed. There was nothing even remotely surprising about it. In previous columns, media interviews, and social media updates,…
Illegality Of The National Water Resource Bill 2020
By Femi Falana Sometime in 2017, the Buhari administration forwarded the National Water Resource Bill to both chambers of the National Assembly with a request that it be passed into law. The bill which sought…