Issues/Policy

The tech industry promises to be very interesting this year. It will bring excitement, it will also inflict pain. Nations will go after each other and try to sabotage each other’s growth where possible. Others […]

No matter how competent a political leader is, the leader will always be seen as incapable if the people he has chosen to carry out his instructions and implement his policies do not get it […]

Three months ago, I expressed delight to discover that the Immigration area at the Murtala Muhammad Airport in Lagos had been rebuilt and that the air-conditioning appeared to be working. I also travelled through Customs […]

Do you know that Jigawa can become the richest state in Nigeria? Don’t laugh at me and say “this guy has started again”. I will explain myself, but my central point remains that we have […]

Only three Nigerian leaders have been invited by the British Monarch for state visits to Buckingham Palace. They are General Yakubu Gowon GCFR (90) and his wife Victoria Gowon (78) (12–15 June 1973), President Shehu […]

On December 19, 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria granted access to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators to purchase foreign exchange from the Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM). This temporary access, according to the bank, was […]

At a time millions of Nigerians needed hope and assurance that the leadership of the country knows a little of the misery it has imposed, President Bola Tinubu’s media chat last week failed to minister […]

This is a time of the year to choose ‘Persons of the Year’. Media organisations, which have editorial policy to name “Person Of The Year” would always choose who they believed had a stronger influence […]

I have had the unenviable opportunity of living in two states and the Federal Capital Territory in the past three months. All the time, my phone is my most prized item because it connects me […]

Being that it was their first time ever travelling to our hometown, Tito and Muna were understandably more excited than us, their parents. We had prepared their minds for what they were about to experience, […]

“But she spoke the truth.” That is the most common retort among the diehard fans and devotees of Mrs Kemi Badenoch — leader of the UK Conservative Party — who has been obsessed with saying […]

In 2015, my friend, a retired federal Permanent Secretary, Dr Goke Adegoroye from Akure Oloyemekun in Ondo State wrote a book titled Restoring Good Governance in Nigeria. The book is well researched and a guide […]

My name is Suleiman waziri, and I am the brother of Alhaji Bello Badejo, a respected community leader and businessman based in Maliya, Nasarawa State. It is with deep concern and disappointment that I address […]

The question of whether the law of defamation is a hindrance to freedom of speech and a curtailment to democratic process confronted the Burkinabe a few years ago. Lohe Issa Konaté was Burkina Faso’s own […]

The 45-year-old sprawling University of Calabar Teaching Hospital complex is in dire need of a face-lift, except that this seems the concern of a first-time visitor that kept thinking of why the complex should be […]

The reception is a box-like building encased in neat glass panels. This afternoon, shadows from surrounding trees reflected on the panels, and you could see their foliage flailing in the wind’s caress. “Kigali Genocide Memorial,” […]

Paul Anyebe was a judge of the high court of Benue state in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad […]

It is said that seeing is believing. But for the Nigerian, seeing alone may not be enough. There must be certainty and palpability not only to the sensory apparatuses but also to logic. Bottomline, there […]

A dilapidated federal road, 83 kilometres long, which connects Akwa Ibom with Cross River state, has become a source of embarrassment to Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Constructed in 1975, the road has been in a […]