Tag: Wole Olaoye

Anyone still in doubt about the need for state policing must have other motives other than security of lives and ...

Whatever happens, this is President Buhari’s final full year in office. A new helmsman is expected to be sworn in ...

With the demise of Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi on December 4, Nigeria has lost a truly professional soldier, sans arrogance, sans bitterness and sans politics... Fare thee ...

On your 60th birthday, we return to your portals, O Great Ife, to bless you with our presence and presents. ...

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu To have a chance of retaining power, a pairing of Osinbajo with a Muslim running mate ...

A combination of a sophisticated worldview, an age-long tradition of interacting with humanity of all races and tendencies, and a ...

EndSARS Protest. Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP) I, too, say ALUTA STOPAY to the perennial wasting of our youths in the ...

Pandora Papers Thanks to PREMIUM TIMES and its global partners, in what has now become the journalistic equivalent of a ...

History has taught us that it is better to address the fundamental causes of friction in a society than to ...

Taliban forces at the Kabul Airport. Picture credit: REUTERS/Stringer Apparently, the Taliban celebrated too soon. By the following morning when ...

FILE PHOTO: Bandits According to the report, there have been a harvest of abductions, insecurity of security officers, ethnic/communal tensions, ...

When it comes to the issue of human dignity, we ought not to be seen making compromises. The Nigerian government ...

Many testify that Kyari is a kind man, a compassionate officer and a cheerful giver. Except that that is not ...

“Our Fulani herdsmen in the forests, you came into this state and we accepted you, why then will you be ...

What kind of society are we building? The frightening thing about the recent spate of homicides is that they are ...

...we have found ourselves in this toxic environment where dialogue has become old-fashioned and fairness has been redefined to mean ...

Diversity is a management approach that recognises that as individuals we have differences, and that there is value in those ...

I think the centripetal pull of the elite across geographical divides and political persuasions in Nigeria is instinctive self-preservation.

If el-Rufai’s government is defeated by the bandits, the attempted assassination of Governor Ortom of Benue State will become a ...

The camel is already laden with a gargantuan mountain of straw. Just one more ‘insignificant’ straw — and something may ...

In spite of everything, Ofeimun believes that Nigeria is not too far gone to be saved from derailing completely. He ...

This glamorisation of banditry is one of the reasons criminal elements continue to fester. In a nation of laws, how ...

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi in meeting and negotiation with bandits. Picture credit: The PUNCH. Granting amnesty to bandits is as ill-advised ...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka also speaks on President Muhammadu Buhari and the activities of many young Nigerians.