Resolve ASUP’s strike
The strike action embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics is becoming unbearable for students in Nigeria. The students has been waiting for government’s positive action on...
View ArticleJonathan’s mid-term report
I sympathise with President Goodluck Jonathan, as he laboriously read out the score sheet of his mid-term report recently. His performance ratio, he claimed, satisfied the expectations of Nigerians....
View ArticleAnenih’s proposal
The automatic ticket theory propounded by the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees Chairman, Chief Tony Anineh, for governors and the president come 2015 is an undemocratic political statement...
View ArticleNGF crisis
Nigerians should not be surprised that President Goodluck Jonathan has recognised the Governor Jona Jang faction of the Nigeria Governors Forum. The recognition is a confirmation that the President...
View ArticleSave us from PHCN
This is the umpteenth time I will complain about the raw deal that those of us living around the General Hospital and Oko Filling areas of Igando are getting from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria....
View ArticleHonouring Dana crash victims
The headline of the Federal Government’s intention to honour victims of the ill-fated Dana Air crash of 3rd June, 2012 in The PUNCH on Monday refers. It is honourable to remember our loved ones whose...
View ArticleHardship on Magboro road
I wish to bring to the notice of the Ogun State Governor that residents of Magboro are going through hell due to the ongoing road project commenced in the area. The project contractor has exhibited a...
View ArticleYuguda on fuel subsidy
Nigerians know that fuel subsidy is a ruse and fraudulent yet the Bauchi Governor, Isa Yuguda, keeps justifying the imminent removal of fuel subsidy. I have a question for him, Why is it that his...
View ArticleDana crash victims
The tragic Dana air crash of Sunday, June 3, 2012 will for long be in the memory of victims’ families and entire Nigerians. The Dana Air Flight from Abuja crashed at 3.43pm into a building in the Iju...
View ArticleObama’s snub
Ayo Olukotun’s piece, “Obama’s snubbing of Nigeria”, on Friday is quite interesting. However, his band-wagon South-West call for a national conference to “renegotiate Nigeria” makes no sense. It is a...
View ArticleMisbehaving governors
Chief ‘Tunde Oke, Iddo House, Iddo, Lagos State, +23480330052: Niyi Akinnaso’s article on the misbehaving governors is apt. But, what do you expect, when people contesting political offices are...
View ArticleChinese firms and fake drugs
Femi Adegbuyi, 9, Ondo Street, Council, Idimu, Lagos State, +23480235078: I wonder what the Federal Government intends to do concerning the continuous importation of fake drugs from China. Many Chinese...
View ArticleMali seeks support in fighting Islamist threat
Mali’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that nations in the Sahara were not doing enough to stop an Islamist threat spreading across the region and urged more intelligence-sharing and joint military...
View ArticleUN believes chemical weapons used in Syria
United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they had “reasonable grounds” to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria in a conflict where brutality was now a tactic of...
View ArticleGermany flood threat worsens
Thousands of German troops have been sent to help flood-hit regions as rising rivers threaten more cities, BBC reports. Surging waters that have already caused extensive damage across central Europe...
View ArticleJudge berates media for ‘scandalising’ Pistorius
A South African judge postponed the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday and criticised the media for sensationalist reporting of the Olympic and Paralympic athletics star’s shooting of his...
View ArticleBritsh royal family celebrate queen’s coronation anniversary
Some 2,000 people, including Britain’s top royals, celebrated the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth the II’s coronation on Tuesday at a service in Westminster Abbey, Reuters reports. Prince Charles,...
View ArticleUS Court says police can take DNA upon arrest
In a major victory for law enforcement agencies, a divided United States Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police can take a DNA sample from someone who has been arrested, Reuters reported. It however...
View ArticleJudge accepts insanity plea in Colorado shooting case
A judge on Tuesday accepted James Holmes’ plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation of the Colorado theater shooting suspect, Associated Press reports....
View ArticleCyber specialist to testify at US soldier’s WikiLeaks trial
The court-martial of a soldier charged with using the WikiLeaks website for the biggest leak of classified information in United States history heads into a second day on Tuesday, with a cyber crime...
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