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Ambassador Susan Rice is the American Ambassador to the United Nations. Her long-standing aspiration of becoming the Secretary of State...

The author says Buhari is an honourable man who is being tackled because of his uprightness. The title of this...

“Sadly, two years down the line, the best Bala could do is procuring a third of the minimum number of...

There has recently been a lot of misinformation and misconception in our public debate on debt.My goal in this article...

The mid-term review of the Goodluck Jonathan administration was celebrated with much pomp and pageantry. To an onlooker or a...

“Reading about the June 12 period, for obvious reasons, is difficult for me, even now, 20 years after. It is...

It is apparent that the dust raised by the recent, senseless deployment of security officers to their untimely death in...

On June 2, 2013, Premium Times published an exclusive report on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)'s Governor, Sanusi Lamido...

Nigerian ills are a legion. Corruption, lack of patriotism, vision, discipline etc. has been fingered as Nigeria's major holdbacks. True,...

  It was Friday morning, May 17. The jet lag was over. The sun was bright. People were elegantly dressed,...

I haven’t seen him in eighteen years. We haven’t talked to him in at least eight. In that time, he’d...

No one word divides camp in Nigeria today more than "corruption."  Such is the extent of the division that I...

Today is the first anniversary of the Dana crash that led to the unnecessary death of so many people, victims...

Last week, I argued and suggested that the Nigerian state could implode if we citizens do not invest in the...

“If I lose my money then I lose my life.” For ten years of married life, my wife and I...

Sometimes a student’s mid-term assessment report card does not reflect the final report, but it tells in some way the...

We began the assessment of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration by listing a number of the campaign promises he made in...

 The opposition players and activists in Nigeria are campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan! If my permutations on the workings of...

 "…These actions amount to a declaration of war and a deliberate attempt to undermine the authority of the Nigerian state…...

Realising the importance of knowledge, skill acquisition and job creation, the Kano State government through its Kwankwasiya slogan is fighting ignorance, street...

The unprecedented, horrific events of the Woolwich killings of a British soldier, James Rigby, in broad daylight, on a London...

Had Nigeria, like Britain, an unwritten constitution, no one would know ours is officially a secular country. Every politician not...

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, took off as a mere association of governors of the 36 states of the federation....

With the breakup of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, into two factions as a consequence of the failure of the...

 A trained policeman misses the tyres of a taxi and shoots a passenger in the taxi instead. The nation woke...