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EDITORIAL: A coastal highway of misplaced priority and due process abuse

Nigeria, May 6 -- Construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has begun amid a myriad of fiscal and due process concerns. But indifference is the response of President Bola Tinubu's administrati... Read More


Information minister speaks on harassment, detention of journalists, says issues are being resolved

Nigeria, May 6 -- The Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, says the federal government is working to "resolve" the issue of the detained journalist, Ojukwu. Mr Idris stated this on Saturday night... Read More


EPL Wrap: Salah lights up Anfield as Chelsea rout West Ham to go sixth

Nigeria, May 6 -- Another defeat for Spurs Tottenham Hotspur's season that promised so much at the beginning threatens to end in a whimper as Ange Postecoglu's team suffered a fourth consecutive loss... Read More


Guinness World Records: Longest marathon drumming with 'Gangan' underway in Ekiti

Nigeria, May 6 -- Olaniyi Adewale, a Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) undergraduate, is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the Longest Marathon Drumming [150 hours] with an African tal... Read More


One dead as security operatives allegedly invade Enugu community, raze houses

Nigeria, May 6 -- One person was confirmed dead on Saturday when combined security operatives invaded Igga, a community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria's south-east. The se... Read More


Buni, Abiodun, Iwuanyanwu, others honoured at Independent Awards

Nigeria, May 5 -- Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni and his Ogun and Plateau States counterparts, Dapo Abiodun and Caleb Mutfwang, were among the awardees honoured at the 13th edition of the annual I... Read More


INTERVIEW: How Tinubu administration is supporting Chibok girls, addressing women empowerment - Minister

Nigeria, May 5 -- Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Uju Kenneth-Ohanenye, assumed office in August 2023. In an interview with PREMIUM TIMES' Ameh Ejekwonyilo at her office in... Read More


Nigerian police speak on detained journalist, relocate him

Nigeria, May 5 -- The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Sunday moved detained journalist Daniel Ojukwu to the Nigerian Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Ter... Read More


Without state police, we're all sitting ducks!, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, May 5 -- Without doubt, one of the greatest legacies the president can gift Nigeria is a new policing architecture that guarantees the protection of lives and property for both the mighty and... Read More


In Nigeria, judicial appointments have become network corruption, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Nigeria, May 5 -- "Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy." - Charles Archibong, A Stranger in Their Midst: A Memoir, 97 (20... Read More