Opinion

Over 161 bodies have been recovered in a Benisheik attack staged by Boko Haram last week, on a highway between Maiduguri and Damaturu and another highway attack from Maiduguri to Bamboa. The terrorists came in 20 pickup trucks with...

It has become the stereotypical for Nigerian commentators to deride the nation’s public universities, especially the infrastructural levels of these citadels of learning. Most of the time, these commentaries are not based on the facts on ground at the...

This is the continuation of our Public Information, dated 21st of September, 2013, on the smokescreen nature of the ASUU-Federal Government Agreement of 2009 as a solution to the battered standard of higher education in Nigeria. Our main concern...

When the now-rested Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in February this year intimated us that the federal government is diverting the SURE-P money towards prosecuting project 2015, many dismissed the allegation as another political statement lacking in substance. But...

The ‘International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco’, jointly organized by The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY)...

Before the National Assembly went on annual recess towards the end of July this year, the Senate and House of Representatives had separately debated and voted on the various items listed for amendment in the constitution. Of all the recommendations...

HON. AYODEJI JOSEPH   I have always been an avid believer in the fact that young people should be in government. Not as ball boys, foot soldiers or personal assistants/errand boys but as people who could actually wield the power to...

The story has been told often enough and is now old: A response from Chief Orji Uzor Kalu to the recent forced removal of some Nigerians from one part of their country to another vexed and caused Chief Femi...

Perhaps you have read about the CUNY (City University of New York) student and faculty protests against US ex-General David Petraeus teaching a course on public policy at a CUNY campus. Last week and on Tuesday, September 17th, students...

I have kept tabs on the movement of five (5) of the ‘democrat’ rebel PDP governors since the 23rd of May 2013. They have spent more time outside their various states where they are supposed to govern as governors...