“The 20-year-old EFCC has not always covered itself in glory,” I wrote in this space in April 2024. “In five months, it will owe Nigerians its annual report, featuring an army of APC kleptocrats...
29th June 2025
On the evening of July 1, 1964, a weary but elated Lyndon B. Johnson walked into his White House residence after a day of frantic vote-counting on Capitol Hill. His political adversaries in the Senate...
29th June 2025
A reader’s message read: “Please, do you have any information about the plant called eyin olobe? It grows freely in my compound, and my gardener said the leaves are used to make tea.” I told him...
29th June 2025
Hello Ma, I have been your follower for several years, and I do read your articles in the Saturday PUNCH newspaper. I must say they have really helped me to remain a virgin till date, Ma. I am 29 year...
28th June 2025
The impact of parental separation or divorce can be deep, complex, and long-lasting for both parents and children. Although the experience may vary from one family to another, emotional, social, and p...
28th June 2025
A man who reached out to me recently told me his story. The year 2022 marked his first visit home since he left the country for his studies; he completed his studiesbefore starting work and raising ...
28th June 2025
So, we marked another World Sickle Cell Day on Thursday, June 19. But truthfully, what was there to celebrate? I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I speak for many when I say: we have nothing. No...
28th June 2025
Despite the fact that male infertility contributes to nearly half of all cases of infertility, societal attitudes and misconceptions often lead to silence and shame for men struggling with the conditi...
28th June 2025
President Bola Tinubu visited Benue State recently after another round of gruesome attacks. Before he did, he had issued a press statement. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume,...
27th June 2025
When two or more words combine to form a new word, what you get is a compound word, which is also called a portmanteau. Examples of compound/portmanteau words are brunch – a combination of ‘breakf...
27th June 2025
A long time ago, I journeyed over many seas and a sprawling ocean far away from a place I have always known and called home. In a desperate dash to lay hold of the unwonted treasure I was. I believed ...
27th June 2025
As economic hardship bites and the state fails to curtail the problem of insecurity, people rue their decision to vote for Bola Tinubu as president in 2023. This angst seems to be coming from every co...
26th June 2025
“The Nigeria Labour Congress joins other global working class federations to demand that the Just Transition Work Programme being discussed at the 62nd meeting of the United Nations Framework Conven...
26th June 2025
“We made a promise when we came in. We are fulfilling that promise. Two years ago, I sounded the alarm on our nation’s food security. While we are here, there are over 2,000 advanced tractors, 50 ...
25th June 2025
Others have dealt with more profound aspects of the life of Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo, who will be buried tomorrow. Herewith is the private Olunloyo, from reminiscences of someone he never met, but h...
25th June 2025
The current crisis between Israel and Iran, as well as the involvement of the United States of America, has proved once more that in international power tussles, morality does not exist. What is right...
24th June 2025
If certain words can be said to be the most wrongly pronounced in English, they may be those that end with ‘ally’. Especially in this part of the world, almost everyone keeps mispronouncing them d...
24th June 2025
The endpoint of any production, goods or service is the distribution and usage of the output or products. Producers are always concerned about demand for their products, and they have the right to see...
23rd June 2025
It is 20 years since the sage, Chinua Achebe, penned a famous open letter rejecting President Olusegun Obasanjo’s award of the Commander of the Federal Republic. For those who have forgotten, or who...
22nd June 2025
Recently, I mentioned some health concerns associated with the vegetable oils we consume. I said most of them are derived from seeds. These oils are extracted from plants using either a chemical solve...
22nd June 2025
There is a host of companies and other organisations prevalent online and in the physical world, which claim to make and sell certain medications that are effective in increasing the size of the penis...
22nd June 2025
Even though Father’s Day celebration has come and gone, the occasion can often leave an open wound in the hearts of many children still longing to reconnect with fathers who have been absent and sil...
21st June 2025
Getting pregnant isn’t always as easy as it seems because, for millions of married men and women, male infertility can stand in the way of their dream to start a family. It is as emotional and diffi...
21st June 2025
A man who reached out to me recently told me his story. The year 2022 marked his first visit home since he left the country for his studies; he completed his studiesbefore starting work and raising ...
21st June 2025
Sickle cell disease is one of the most common inherited blood disorders worldwide, with a particularly heavy burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, hundreds of thousands of infants are born with SC...
21st June 2025
Dear Mummy Temilolu, For years, I used to go to my neighbour’s house on Saturdays since the day I stumbled on your article in Saturday Punch, but eventually had to stop when their dad stopped buying...
21st June 2025
It has been two years since President Bola Tinubu appointed Hadiza Bala as Special Adviser on Policy & Coordination. Of all the appointments made early in the life of the administration, I noted t...
20th June 2025
Long before man dug a hole in every inch of the earth searching for oil, the crab had been in the business of oil drilling. The crab’s house – I mean its burrow – not its shell, is an oil rig at...
20th June 2025
A few years ago, Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, Dr Yakubu Gowon, spoke the following surreal words concerning the often-frequent carnage and brutal murders of innocent citizens in Benue St...
20th June 2025
If anyone needed a compelling argument against electing old and lethargic leaders whose breasts the milk of human kindness has long dried, the response by the present administration to the recent kill...
19th June 2025
Over the past week, windstorms have been on the rampage in Northern Nigeria, leaving trails of ugly talons in about five states. This poses a significant ecological threat to the region because it cau...
19th June 2025
