Shettima: Lazy Youths and the Disease of Ignorance, by Lawan Bukar Maigana   “To know that you don’t know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognising this disease as a disease is to be free from it.” - Lao...

Still On The Dangers Of Skin Bleaching, by Aishat M. Abisola If you are somehow not aware of what skin bleaching is, it is the act or method of using chemical substances to lighten one's complexion or provide an even skin tone by reducing the...

As Buhari Strives to Institutionalise Social Investment Programmes, by Musa Ilallah   Nine months to the end of his second and final term in office, the PMB administration has in its recent Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting in Abuja, approved a bill to give the fight...

Akabueze: Why Insist On Punishing Citizens With Telecom Tax By Fom Gyem I watch with interest an Arise Television interview where the Director General Budget Office, Ben Akabueze disclosed that the suspension of the proposed excise duty on players in the digital economy would worsen...

Gender Roles, Discrimination and Domestic Violence: A Way Forward, by Oyetunji Popoola Aisha   The Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary defines gender roles as "a set of behavior pattern, attitudes and personality characteristics, stereotypically perceived as masculine or feminine within a culture." From time immemorial, the issue of...

As Angry Nigerians Attack DG Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, over Insistence on Five Percent Telecom Tax By Zeenat Sambo It all started like a joke on June 29, 2022 when the Federal Government announced that telecommunications subscribers would pay extra five percent tax on calls, SMS,...