From long queues to doorstep delivery: Nigeria’s passport renewal goes digital in the UK
By Israel Fagbemigun For decades, renewing a Nigerian passport was synonymous with frustration.The process often involved repeated visits to immigration offices, hours spent in queues, uncertainty over timelines, and in some cases, allegations of unofficial payments to fast-track applications. For Nigerians living abroad, the experience could be even more demanding, requiring long-distance travel to embassies […]
Wike, Ortom, G5 govs: Urgent need to retrace their steps
I have been watching closely with studied silence the unending outburst, which has been continuously hurled at the PDP Presidential Candidate and Vice Presidential Candidate by the G5 Governors led by His Excellency Nyesom Wike.
APC Crisis: Revisiting the coup against Buni
By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja When Aldous Leonard Huxley, the English writer, and philosopher noted in one of his works thus; “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history”, he perhaps had Nigeria’s troubled ruling All Progressives Congress APC in mind. It […]
The fall of Mala Buni…
By Emmanuel Ado Mala Buni, the governor of Yobe State, and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee(CECPC), had stretched his luck too far, but it was only a matter of time before he lost out, like he eventually did. While Buni got away with the constant postponement of the national […]
N-Power not solving Nigeria’s unemployment problem
By Odewale Abayomi THE National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on Friday, August 14, 2020, released the statistics on unemployment for the second quarter, Q2, of 2020 after a long hiatus since the third quarter, Q3, of 2018. The percentage of unemployed people stands at 27.1 per cent. The last report which was released in 2018 […]
‘How water in the brain, epilepsy, death tried to derail my life’
Olakunle Fayiga The birth of a child is one of the sweetest experiences in life, and nothing is sweeter than when the child comes out without any complications or conditions, especially those considered congenital (present at birth). That wasn’t for me though. Head circumference is the measurement of a child’s head usually taken when a […]
