Issues/Policy

The last paragraph of my last published article for the year 2020, titled “Study notes on state and state failure” (December 22) started with a number of questions to the Nigerian Left. Please note that […]

The whole world watched the storming of the iconic Capitol building and the Legislative Arm of the American Government. There was no bewilderment from others at the desecration of the “bastion” of democracy because the […]

Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal inclinations in every group, race, place and religion. In fact, we […]

Not so long ago, some wise folks got together under President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration and decided to solve Nigeria’s election problems once and for all. At that time, most people agreed that the country needed […]

As the number of new cases of COVID-19 and deaths continue to increase in Nigeria, and elsewhere in the world, it’s time to review how this disease is transmitted. Even among those that seem to […]

Keen watchers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would have noticed a silent but revolutionary action taken recently by Nigeria, the economic and political powerhouse in West Africa, as part of efforts […]

Transcorp Plc was a conspiracy between former President Obasanjo and a few Nigerian billionaires – virtually all of them silent supporters of the Third Term agenda. The only vocal advocate of the satanic term elongation […]

Nigeria is in dire straits, and the government of the day is burying its head in the sand like a woebegone ostrich. It takes tremendous courage to speak truth to power, especially at this time […]

The incidents of abandoned street children in our towns and cities are on the rise. It is a frightening phenomenon that calls for deliberate policy framework by the government and its social welfare agencies to […]

Ordinarily, it should be a surprise to learn that bank customers are winning cases they filed against their banks as a result of transactions that took place in their bank accounts. The surprise will always […]

The timing of Rev Father Kukah’s Christmas message, and the ensuing offensives could not be more fortuitous, seeing that it comes at a time when a world powerful nation, still reeling from an unprecedented assault […]

It is a fundamental truth of humanity that the first step towards resolving a challenge is the acknowledgement of the challenge and its magnitude as a basis for its interrogation with a view to devising […]

Abomination walked naked in Elegbeka community of Ose Local Government Area in Ondo State on November 26, 2020 when some sons of darkness, brandishing guns, killed a god. First, they cocked their guns and kidnapped […]

On December 4, 2017 in Washington D.C, United States of America, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), the attorney general of the federation and minister of justice; Ambassador Roberto Balzaretti, secretary of state and director of the […]

We are outcomes of our society and our society is a consequence of our essence. We live by the governing examples and norms of our community and we cannot be more than what we settled […]

ISRAEL is a small country of nine million, with a landmass of 20,22,145 km2 – about the size of Cross River State. Niger State, with a landmass of 76,363 km2, is more than three and […]

The most important feature of a political party is the existence of an ideology that expresses its vision and mission with respect to the acquisition and utilization of political power for the purpose of governance. […]

Not since World War II have so many countries around the world witnessed educational institutions go into a lockdown at the same time and for the same reason as we have experienced in the past […]

The recent event in America’s Capitol Hill, where President Donald Trump’s supporters – acting on his rabble-rousing speeches – stormed the seat of power appears a mere dress rehearsal for something worse, as Trump – […]