By Punch Editorial Board AS they gathered during week-long low-key activities marking the country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary, Nigeria’s thoroughly discredited political leaders, despite their hypocritical precepts, could not ignore the prevailing mood of melancholy among…
By Ebere Nwoji The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has been urged to upgrade the minimum capital base of insurance booking firms from the current N5 million to N50 million. The insurance brokers on their part…
By Onozure Dania A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a retired policeman, Ariwayo Oloyede, aka Oyinbo, to one-year imprisonment for human trafficking. The ex-police officer was convicted alongside a Burkina Faso-based Nigerian,…
By Punch Editorial Board Ahead of the 2023 polls, public attention is riveted on politics. But the electorate’s dream of a better Nigeria appears bleak with the recent embarrassing penchant of state governors and leading…
By Akin Osuntokun What are the corollaries of either the All Progressive Congress, APC or the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP winning the 2023 presidential election? If Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu ticket wins the election, the…
By Solomon Odeniyi The Nigerian Army has denied claims that its personnel were collaborating with armed herdsmen and bandits to terrorise the Eastern part of the country as well as Benue state. The Army described…
By Punch Editorial Board THE recent return of $23 million to Nigeria by the United States government, part of funds looted by the late dictator, Sani Abacha, and his cronies, has once more brought to…
By Simon Kolawole Out of the blue, I was inducted into the dreaded hall of fame for victims of disinformation last week. An article I did not write and had not even read was attributed…
By Abimbola Adelakun At the annual Nigerian Bar Association conference, several presidential candidates presented their respective agendas to the public. The Tuesday event was one of the few moments in this electioneering season when we…
By Bennett Oghifo The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday administered the oath of office to Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, who takes over from Mr Olumide Akpata as the 31st President of the NBA. Maikyau, who…
