Editorial

In a democratising social formation, the need to entrench democratic principles in practice cannot be over-emphasised. It becomes more compelling in times of electoral turnover and more so for a society that is anomic, afflicted […]

THE country’s most senior generals stumbled into an avoidable political storm recently by appearing at the public launch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. Reactions to media photographs of the military service chiefs were […]

President Buhari cannot afford to be silent on the mismanagement of NEMA fund Despite the subtle attempts to politicise it, the multi-billion naira scandal involving the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will not go away. […]

The payment of the minimum wage is possible if governors are prudent While receiving the tripartite committee report on minimum wage recently, President Muhammadu Buhari pledged that the federal government would quickly transmit an Executive […]

IN the spring of 2016, as Eric Bailly mulled over whether to leave Villarreal for Manchester United, he knew just who to call. The feisty defender placed a call to his fellow Ivorien, Chelsea legend […]

THE spate of gross misconduct and anti-social behaviours that include rape and paedophilia of the incestuous variant is festering at a worrisome rate in the face of the paucity of official attention. And the other […]

BOKO Haram’s audacious attacks on the 157 Task Force Battalion, Metele, Borno State, in which scores of soldiers were killed, represent a stunning reversal of fortunes for Nigeria in its fight against Islamist insurgency. Initial […]

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t like to involve myself in the nauseating debate about the rumoured cloning of President Muhammadu Buhari and the imaginative Jibril Aminu of Sudan because it is rubbish in the face of scientific […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, recently said that the government would soon launch a new National Pesticide Policy to regulate indiscriminate use of chemicals in the preservation of farm produce […]

One of the attributes of great leaders is the mastery of the art of pro – activeness, especially at very critical moments of nationhood. Unfortunately, this art is almost alien to most of our leaders […]

Hardly is it surprising that Nigerians are among those topping the list of nationals seeking asylum in Canada, as recently revealed in a report by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. That trend has been […]

After the PDP primaries in Rivers State early last month, I asked how a Jonah Jang, a former governor of Plateau state, a current Senator from his senatorial district in a state that has seen […]

In view of last week’s routing of the Nigerian Army camp at Metele in Borno State by the Boko Haram faction of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA), which purportedly led to the killing […]

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last —Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer and politician. If we go by what our politicians (the major presidential candidates […]

A report that African political leaders and their business counterparts rose from a meeting recently in Johannesburg and resolved to dismantle all disincentives to sustainable investment in the continent has raised a glimmer of hope […]

AS Nigerians head to the polls early next year, they should be conscious of the need to break the cycle of violence that has perpetually held the country hostage and cast a shadow on the […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo touched some raw nerves in his recent renewal of the campaign for local government autonomy in the country. He decried their loss of independence and attributed the failure to discharge their […]