Opinion

John Age, a middle-aged resident of Abuja, is a sad man. His brother, Martins, a mechanical engineer, lost his life in a ghastly motor accident along the ever busy Abuja-Kubwa road at night.  Due to poor visibility, Martins rammed into a sharp obj...

Bashir Salihu is a legal practitioner and former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Yobe State. In this interview with UCHE UCHE in Damaturu, the Lawyer speaks on the Justice Salami saga, President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal of s...

Handling shylock landlords has proven to be a great challenge to tenants in Lagos State, as apart from charging exorbitant tenancy rates, the payment options were generally unfavourable to the tenants. Thus, it was a day of joy for tenants when the Lag...

The National president National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Usman Yasin, says he is on a mission to rebrand the union. He however identifies key intervention areas the government can wade into, to transform the transport sector. He ...

The Senate is back, apparently with renewed vigour to confront the myriad of problems confronting the nation, most of which piled while they were away. Though they all agree that the amendment of the 1999 constitution would top their priority, UCHENNA ...

The impending arraignment of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and leader of Action Congress of Nigeria by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is heightening tension and generating several conspiracy theories, writes OLAOLU OLADIPO &n...

The plan of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)to demolish all illegal structures within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) may yet be a tall dream, as many of these settlements which were pulled down by the development control, always sp...

  Constantly regarded by many as a pace-setter for the good, the bad and the ugly in labour matters, Enugu can be rightly termed “the labour capital” of Nigeria.      It was in Enugu that the police shot  at strikin...

  Information is power. That is a truism. In realisation of this, it is expedient to take a cursory look at the advent of the internet and the upstaging of world governments just as in recent and ongoing wikileaks revelations. Even Nigeria was not...

Presidential adviser on ethics and former presidential aspirant Dr. Sarah Jibril is who one could describe as a stickler for values and ethics. Now on board the president’s team of advisers, she has a lot to share on how to transform Nigeria. She...

Chief Victor Rapial Lar is the senator representing Plateau Southern Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly.  He speaks with ACHOR ABIMAJE, shortly after resuscitating five motorized boreholes in his constituency. Lar says he is wiling to partne...

Minister of State for Education, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike says he is committed to addressing the challenges facing basic and secondary education sub sectors under his purview. In this interview with FRANCIS  OTTAH AGBO, the Minister declares t...

Since the declaration and swearing-in of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State for a second four-year-term, he has been faced with many problems, particularly from the opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). In this interview with the ...

Is the Federal Ministry of Finance being unfairly accused of impeding a probe by the House of Representatives into its controversial concessioning of a key import and export clearing documentation services contract to Single Window Systems and Technolo...

Enugu is regarded by many as a pace setter for the good, the bad and the ugly in labour matters. It was in Enugu that the police shot striking  Coal Miners in 1949 , killing 21 and wounding about 51 for demanding better  welfare packages .On ...