Tag: p.m.news opinions
Osun And The Mischievous Do-Gooders
By Peter Claver Oparah It is difficult to start a report like this. How does one start without being set…
Unpaid Salaries: A National Shame
By Ayo Oyoze Baje The heated debate raging over unpaid workers’ salaries in 23 out of the 36 states of…
Child Marriage And The Day Of The African Child
By Bilikis Bakare While some people tag it adherence to age long religious tradition popular in a number of regions…
Buhari And An Unministered Govt: A Good Change
By Vitus Ozoke I have read some of my friends knock President Muhammadu Buhari for not having appointed ministers three…
Buhari, ‘Legislooters’ And The Change Agenda
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem Wind the critically slurred legislative tape back to the first National Assembly of the…
OMISORE: Mischief As A Way Of Life
By Lateef Raji In the politics of the 4th Republic, especially in the South West geo-political zone, some characters have…
Okiro And A Failed Blackmailing Scheme
By Thomas Adegoke Retired Inspector-General of Police Mr. Mike Okiro, hit the nail on the head over the hullabaloo regarding…
Now That The Rains Are Here
By Bilikis Bakare For generations, rainfall has been known to serve as showers of divine blessings as it had always…
Senate Leadership: APC Should Carry The Big Stick
By Joe Igbokwe Few days ago, Professor Pat Utomi lamented that interlopers and agents of darkness have hijacked our CHANGE…
Aregbesola, Osun State And Unpaid Salaries
By Lateef Raji Osun State is one of the 24 states that are currently feeling the weighty brunt of the…
NASS Elections: The Burden Of Ekweremadu
By Dr. Vitus Ozoke Here is a very short story: A penitent who was getting ready for a confession before…
Buhari Needs Chief Innovation Adviser
By Prof Osita Ogbu A few years ago, a group of African scholars, including myself with a sprinkle of international,…
Buhari’s Gaffes At G7 Summit
By Vitus Ozoke Videos of President Buhari at the just concluded 41st summit of G7 nations in Bavaria Germany have…
Cancer And Ambode’s Birthday Wish
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The world is grappling with many challenges. Terrorism has heightened the fear of insecurity across the globe. Globally,…
Rethinking June 12 And The 2015 Wind Of Change Mandate
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje Exactly 22 years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 general elections many Nigerians outside…
Saraki, Dogara, APC, PDP And The Buhari Presidency
By Peter Claver Oparah The events of Tuesday, June 9th when a faction of the National Assembly made up mainly…
Ambode Has Begun Well
By C. Don Adinuba There is no state governor who will be watched in the next four years as Akinwunmi…
Lagos Fire, Articulated Vehicles And Roadmaps
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Being a cosmopolitan city and the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, incidence of fire disaster is not…
Buhari’s Government And Ajaokuta Steel
By Michael Jegede With what a completed Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCO) holds for the growth of Nigeria’s economy, it is…
Blatter, FIFA And The Beautiful Game
By Tayo Ogunbiyi After seventeen years of holding sway as the boss of the apex global soccer governing body, FIFA,…
Need For Federal Bureau Of Whistle Blowing
By Odunayo Joseph To take cue from Dr. Wale Omole, the National Coordinator of a non-governmental organization, National Problems and…
Lagos, Global Poverty And Wealth Creation
By Michael Oputeh It is a as a result of the harsh reality of the danger of poverty, if allowed…
Dame Patience Jonathan: There Was A First Lady
By Tayo Ogunbiyi According to Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Carl Gustav Jung [1875-1961], personality is the supreme realization of the…
Now That Ambode Has Come
By Tayo Ogunbiyi “Ambo o, Ambo, Eko sese bere ni o Ambo o” (we are coming, we are coming, the…
Corruption, Security Agencies And National Security
By Rasak Musbau In every society, there are bound to be deviants who disobey the laws of the society. This…
Ambode, The Youth And Job Creation
By Susan Olije Very soon, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, will be passing out a crop of new corps…
Biafra On My Mind
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema With the formal declaration by Lieutenant-Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria,…
Babatunde Fashola (2007-2015): He Came, Saw And Grew Grey Hair
By Tayo Ogunbiyi “You see, this job is a tough job. When I took this job, at the age of…
President Buhari: Mission Accomplished
By Joe Igbokwe With a sense of awe and trepidation I watched the heart-breaking operation to rescue 33 miners trapped…
Why It Is Incorrect To Say President Must Appoint 37 Ministers
By Festus Keyamo The long-held notion in Nigeria that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is under an…