Issues/Policy

When Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State eventually quits office as governor, he may be remembered as the prober. The man has been examining, inquiring, questioning, and probing the activities and actions of his predecessor […]

The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle which has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power […]

It was not long I drew attention to what I called harvest of deaths in the land. Specifically on 10 December, 2020, I wrote as follows: “Death has stalked the land, raiding villages and towns, […]

Events across the country in the recent times especially, the increase in the numbers of mobile terrorists masquerading as herders in dispensing their nefarious operation have shown clearly that open grazing in cattle business is […]

Things have gone totally awry in Nigeria; logic now walks on its head and the country has become a huge jungle where impunity reigns. It would be dishonest to suggest that it is any surprise […]

A few days ago, 42 persons abducted by bandits in Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, regained their freedom. They included 27 students, three employees and 12 members of their family. But I do not […]

If, by now, Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what […]

The Golden City Ministries The current video parading one of our own, Apostle Suleiman, has thrown me into mourning mood since I saw it earlier today. His unfortunate utterances as regards his ‘blessings’ (purchase of […]

Let us pause for a while and remind ourselves of what it would look like, if Nigerians lose their sense of reasoning and embrace anarchy in this age of technology advancement and the great awareness […]

Did the activities of militants in the Niger Delta qualify as crime? Hell Yes! Militancy and kidnapping were a profitable pursuit in that oil-rich region in the early 2000s. Kidnapping as an organised venture entered […]

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, […]