57 garlands for the ‘Area Boy’ who became DSS boss! By CHUKS AKUNNA OPINION 57 garlands for the ‘Area Boy’ who became DSS boss! By CHUKS AKUNNA Editor April 30, 2025 When on August 26, 2024, President Bola Tinubu appointed Mr. Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi as the Director-General, Department...Read More
My Party Will Swallow All Yours, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION My Party Will Swallow All Yours, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor April 27, 2025 Nigeria’s political landscape never ceases to astonish and amaze. In addition to our habitually surprising electoral outcomes,...Read More
The greater tragedy: Nigeria’s poverty of enlightened followership By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA OPINION The greater tragedy: Nigeria’s poverty of enlightened followership By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA dolotop April 26, 2025 The poverty of enlightened, rational, and intelligent followership in Nigeria is a greater tragedy than her poverty...Read More
Malaria: How misdiagnosis fuels Nigeria’s fever, AMR crisis OPINION Malaria: How misdiagnosis fuels Nigeria’s fever, AMR crisis dolotop April 25, 2025 By ABUJAH RACHEAL, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Mrs Grace Ameh is a resident of Eyyan community...Read More
The Nigerian constitutional provisions and governors as “Chief Security Officers”: Responsibility without authority OPINION The Nigerian constitutional provisions and governors as “Chief Security Officers”: Responsibility without authority dolotop April 24, 2025 By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA The Nigerian Constitution (1999, as amended) does not expressly designate State Governors as...Read More
Insecurity: The fuss and force of self-defence, By ZAINAB SULEIMAN OKINO OPINION Insecurity: The fuss and force of self-defence, By ZAINAB SULEIMAN OKINO dolotop April 22, 2025 When the Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Adeola Ajayi advocated for self-help and communal...Read More
FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s statement on the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis For The Record NEWS FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s statement on the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis dolotop April 21, 2025 Today, with a heavy heart, I join the Catholic faithful and Christians worldwide in mourning the passing...Read More
Nuhu Ribadu: A break from the past By JACK OKUDE OPINION Nuhu Ribadu: A break from the past By JACK OKUDE dolotop April 21, 2025 The incumbent National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, is a busy man. It’s the demand of his office,...Read More
[Watch Video] The Wages of Presidential Subterfuge, By By CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU* OPINION POLITICS [Watch Video] The Wages of Presidential Subterfuge, By By CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU* Editor April 20, 2025 On the evening of 5 April 2012, the prime-time bulletin on the television news of the Malawi...Read More
Absent from Abuja, Present in Paris, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Absent from Abuja, Present in Paris, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor April 20, 2025 The Nigerian political opposition is scoring desired attention from the Tinubu’s disappearing antics. In apparent response to...Read More
FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s Easter message to the Nation For The Record NEWS FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s Easter message to the Nation dolotop April 18, 2025 I heartily felicitate Christians in Nigeria and worldwide as they commemorate Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s...Read More
Governor Okpebholo as PDP’s nemesis By KASSIM AFEGBUA OPINION Governor Okpebholo as PDP’s nemesis By KASSIM AFEGBUA dolotop April 17, 2025 Governor Okpebholo comes across as an uncommon personality doing uncommon things with less talk, but more reach....Read More
Need for participatory communication: Abuja requires strategic plan, not master plan By AUDU LIBERTY OSENI METRO OPINION Need for participatory communication: Abuja requires strategic plan, not master plan By AUDU LIBERTY OSENI Editor April 16, 2025 The Federal Capital Territory Administration continues to rely on the restoration of Abuja master plan as a...Read More
Right of reply: The Punch and busybody business OPINION Right of reply: The Punch and busybody business dolotop April 16, 2025 By Dr. IKE ODOGWU The recent declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State has triggered...Read More
Plateau State: As the ocean of blood swells, By MOST REV MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH OPINION Plateau State: As the ocean of blood swells, By MOST REV MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH Editor April 15, 2025 Again, another tributary of blood gushes from Zike, in Bassa Local Government Area to Bokkos in Plateau...Read More
Seyi Tinubu as Presidential asset, BY JACK OKUDE OPINION POLITICS Seyi Tinubu as Presidential asset, BY JACK OKUDE Editor April 15, 2025 Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Tinubu, is up and about; touring Nigeria from north to...Read More
Yobe 2027: The case for technocratic leadership – Why expertise matters more than ever, by USMAN ABBA OPINION Yobe 2027: The case for technocratic leadership – Why expertise matters more than ever, by USMAN ABBA Editor April 15, 2025 As Yobe State continues its journey of recovery, reconstruction, and development, the question of leadership becomes paramount,...Read More
Professor Mahmood Yakubu: “A prophet without honor in his hometown”? OPINION Professor Mahmood Yakubu: “A prophet without honor in his hometown”? dolotop April 15, 2025 By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),...Read More
2027: Atiku and his perennial search for the golden trophy, By KASSIM AFEGBUA OPINION POLITICS 2027: Atiku and his perennial search for the golden trophy, By KASSIM AFEGBUA Editor April 15, 2025 By 2027, when Atiku Abubakar is expectedly going to make what hopefully would be his last ditch...Read More
General Buhari as an enigma, By HASSAN GIMBA OPINION General Buhari as an enigma, By HASSAN GIMBA Editor April 13, 2025 On Friday last week, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former House of Representatives Speaker and Sokoto State...Read More