By Dimeji Macaulay ON JUNE 9th this year, The Punch newspaper reported that the EU earned €3.4 million from rejected Schengen visa applications from Nigeria. The report further stated that globally, EU governments collected €130 million from rejected Schengen visa applications, with African and Asian countries bearing 90 percent of the costs, ...
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA, THE country with the highest number of malaria deaths globally, has begun administering a new malaria vaccine for the first time. The R21/Matrix-M vaccine, approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is set to protect children aged five to 15 months. According to reports, Malaria claims the lives of a large proport...
Bola BOLAWOLE “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” – Matthew 5:9. DOGS EATING dogs and birds gnawing at each other’s innards is one way to describe the war of words between the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer […]
By Felix Ofou AS THE saying goes, a prophet is without honour at home. Most heroes die uncelebrated or honoured by their kith and kin. Often, it is strangers who tell the stories of battles fought, victories won and argue why a man of valour should be decorated and adorned with honour. But Delta State […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit (Proverbs 26: 4 – 5). ONCE AGAIN, the media is agog with allegations of assault on freedom of speech. In this age of […]
By Femi Kusa WHO AMONG us who can read or write or, if unable to, is capable of deep thinking who never had a teacher? We all had,and still have, fabulous teachers. I remember ALHAJI BABATUNDE JOSE, chairman and Managing Director of the powerful DAILY TIMES group of newspapers in the 1970s warning my 1972 […]
By Pius Mordi THAT NIGERIA has shut down her four refineries by willfully neglecting the rehabilitation while preferring to import refined products for more than 20 years is known to all. That every administration routinely pledges to end the hemorrhaging of public funds by failing to rehabilitate the refineries by perpetrating the fraud in th...
With Tony Okoroji OMG! DECEMBER is here! Ordinarily, December should be the month of happiness, the month of celebrations. It used to be the month to count one’s blessings and give glory to the Almighty. December is the month when the whole world goes on leave and celebrates Christmas. Usually, the quarreling and bickering of […]
Your Midweek Law Clinic THE ARREST of a practicing lawyer in Nigeria over his book publication on Nigeria and her criminal justice system has necessitated the research into laws guiding criminal libel in Nigeria. It is surprising that a lawyer can denigrate a whole institution of justice and opposing counsel simply because he lost in […...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise” – Victor Hugo (in “Le Hus Miserables”). Is Biafra an idea whose time has come? Victor Hugo (26 February, 1802 – 22 May, 1885) says “Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose […]
