Issues/Policy

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Trade Organisation, WTO, both have a remit to monitor and review the economic developments and policies of their members. The aim, for the IMF, is to ensure […]

I have been getting frantic calls and text messages from a sister of a close friend who claims, as usual, that she is short of money for her drugs. My friend had in the past, […]

A leader with an eye on posterity won’t have the appetite for the vanity of naming projects after himself. Because true immortality will be bestowed by history, not monuments that can be renamed. Tinubu needs […]

We should ask: is sunlight pouring all over the world with Trump 2.0? While American exceptionalism may sound like good music to the ears of most Americans, particularly fans of Trump’s agenda, it sounds ominous […]

It’s hard to argue when U.S. President Donald Trump says that God saved him to save America. Not only is a rational argument often suspended or lost when God enters the matter, but Trump’s return […]

If, by the end of his tenure, Bola Tinubu did not activate a socio-political orientation programme, he would have become the first president since 1983 to buck the trend. Civilian and military presidents have had […]

When Governor Sanwo-Olu was to constitute a cabinet for his second term around August-September 2023, the Lagos House of Assembly, the official clearing house for such matters, opted to give the governor a little headache. […]

When Peter Mbah came up with the campaign slogan “Tomorrow is Here” as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2023 elections, some people in Enugu dismissed it as one of the […]

The Chief Corporate Communications Officer (CCCO) of NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, has given an insight into the game-changing nature of the corporation’s ongoing pipelines and depots rehabilitation project. In this interview, he assured that the project […]

As the new year commences, every human being had wished himself a happy year, so also is Honourable Mudashiru Obasa. With the unfolding development at the Lagos State House of Assembly. However, one is not […]

I watched with utter shock and disbelief how the father of Salome Adaidu recounted the rushed and nocturnal burial of the dismembered body of his daughter. He looked resigned – it is hard to tell […]

The clamour for the separation of the ‘Office of the Attorney General of the Federation’ from that of the ‘Minister of Justice’ which is largely attributable, rightly or wrongly, to the perceived politicisation of the […]

Gerry Nolan, writing on a Russian-backed news platform called Pravda has issued a dire warning on the fate of the euro and dollar, in a widely-publicised article titled ‘The Euro’s Imminent Collapse and the Greenback’s […]

Skits showing Nigerian (and Beninese/Togolese) university graduates sidesplittingly exposing their ignorance and even illiteracy are not funny. This is because they are founded on a sobering fact. Something is seriously skewed about a system of […]

On the occasion of this year’s Armed Forces Remembrances Day (January 15), I send my heartfelt commendation and congratulations to the chief of defence staff; officers and troops of our military for their sacrifices and […]

The removal of fuel subsidy in the 2023 federal budget triggered a series of negative developments in the Nigerian economy, made worse by the floating of the local currency. Though necessary at the time, the […]

In describing James Earl Carter, popularly called Jimmy Carter, adjectives and superlatives are simply exhausted and squandered. Jimmy Carter who died on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at the age of 100 years was America’s longest […]

Whilst I will not hesitate to condemn any attempt by another country to demarket our dear country, Nigeria, I have reservations about the way the Nigerian government reacted to the travel advisory issued by its […]

What went viral on social media through a video on what was served to boarding house students of a secondary school in Akwa Ibom State was unfortunate and calls for concern. The meal appeared poorer […]

Hajj administrators all over the world are often quick to assert that the preparations for the next hajj begin as soon as the just concluded one is over. Breathing life into this claim may however […]