Issues/Policy

It is obvious that banditry has become a means of livelihood in the country as almost every state has witnessed something of the sort one way or the other and are still witnessing. There is […]

As America descended into tribal war in the final days of the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Nigeria, about which the traditional ethnocentric social scientist in my graduate school days there, 40 years ago, would […]

Akin Oluwadare, Ikeja, Lagos State: There is nothing as dangerous as a ship without a captain. It is more fearful when you have a captain whose authority is borrowed by hawks that pose like patriots. […]

Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries was in the eye of a storm created by Ms Stephanie Otobo who alleged that he promised to marry her, took drinks and gifts to her family house […]

On sighting the headline of her piece entitled Nigerian Media: Let’s Stop Ethnic Profiling!, I initially thought well-respected media mogul, Kadaria Ahmed, was set to confront a media orthodoxy. Though it was plain, unambiguous and […]

There is little or no chance that we can find a service subscriber, who does not have one issue or the other with the service provider. Telephone, pay television and internet service providers, to give […]

There was a combined feeling of hope and happiness when the Sustainable Development Goals agenda was birthed in 2012 at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The year 2030 […]

The month we know today as July used to be known as Quintilis. It was the birth month of Julius Caesar, the Roman general assassinated by his friend, Brutus, and other conspirators. When Caesar died, […]

It is one of the most important trending words. Not even food, drug or dress seems to be as important as it is now. The reason is that as important as food and dress are […]

The nominee for the position of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, is going through his Senate confirmation as you read this. Barring any unforeseen events, he is likely to be confirmed. […]

Nigeria is a country living in denial of its division, challenges and troubled chequered history. Anybody who lays claim to the fact that the country is one is living in illusion or outrightly delusional. Right […]

Boko Haram, ISIS, bandits, kidnapping, yahoo-yahoo boys did not come to Nigeria because of the implementation of visa on arrival policy. The Nigerian government in March 2020 suspended its visa on arrival policy over fears […]

It’s a pity that the #BringBackOurBoys has suddenly died down. It’s a pity that yet another group of schoolboys has been abducted. And it’s a pity that we don’t actually know what will happen next. […]

Nigeria is reported to be the second highest holder of Bitcoins in the whole world after USA, and Nigeria’s holding is about $566 million. It is also noted that one Bitcoin is valued at about […]

Like the rest of humankind, the Government and people of Anambra State are delighted that Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who has also been the Foreign Minister as well as the World Bank […]

It is a rather very well known phenomenon that God writes straight, but often with crooked lines! The meaning of that statement is usually that though the purposes of God are excellent for the human […]

Over the last one week, millions of Nigerians have expressed concern about which direction I am going politically and much has been said. Some have gone out of their way to reach out to me […]

For, at least, four days, from February 15, 2021, millions of Texans were forced by the harsh consequences of the failure of its own electric grid to turn to the ways of dark, dreary and […]

As I settled down in the off-white plastic chair in the sparsely furnished church, I looked around and took in my surroundings. The hall barely held a hundred chairs, with only about half of that […]

What we do today and what will count is whether we have the courage associated with our profession to buck the trend, jump off the bandwagon and do what is right instead of getting swept […]