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Nigeria’s rudimentary economy is dominated by businesses in the informal sector. The battery chargers, barbers, hair-dressers, video club owners, carpenters, business centre owners, fashion designers, auto-mechanics, auto-electricians, pepper grinders, welders,…
In spite of the weather advisories issued by the relevant agencies of the Federal Government, many states were hit by severe flooding in 2022, resulting in the untimely deaths of hundreds…
The on-going Israel-Gaza war may develop into a regional conflict of imponderable consequences for the global peace. The decades-old Israeli-Palestinian crisis has attained another turning point. Both Israel and Palestine…
Ajibola Ogunshola at 80 THERE is an air of momentous celebration and grateful reflection as Ajibola Ogunshola, the Emeritus Chairman of PUNCH, marks his 80th birthday today, July 14, 2024. In the past eight decades, Ogunshola, born on July 14, 1944
In April, 2011, under the title, “The Criminality In The National Assembly,” we had cause to observe as follows: “Whereas Section 70 of the 1999 Constitution unambiguously prescribes that ‘A…
That the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), uncovered N37.1 billion fraud, allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development during the…
Nigerian widows’ rights should be respected International Widows Day TODAY, as the world celebrates International Widows Day themed, “Accelerating the Achievements of Gender Equality (with emphasis on strengthening land and property rights),”
Rivers takes the course of anarchy Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Nyesom Wike SINCE Governor Siminalayi Fubara assumed office in May 2023, Rivers State has been a political tinderbox ready to explode. Renewed tensions engulfed the oil-rich state on
Stop illegal refining, save the economy Rivers State NSCDC officials at an illegal oil refining sites INDUSTRIAL-SCALE criminality proliferates in Nigeria’s oil sector. To gauge the depth, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited stated re
Months after the Federal Government declared a state of emergency on the country’s food insecurity status, there are no empirical evidences to show that the prices of sundry food items…