Issues/Policy

This part addresses the emerging debate called “vaccine nationalism”. Credit is due to Dr. Kelvin Ashindorbe of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, who messaged me to ask if I had addressed the subject […]

Quite frankly, Nigeria is in short supply of leaders who demonstrate that public office is basically an avenue for selfless service to humanity. The country is lacking in public officials who seek only things that […]

It is difficult to resist the urge to rejoin the editorial in the Christmas Day edition of a national daily. Titled ‘’A Sole Rot’’, the editorial is a critical review of the appointment of Mr […]

The demand for NIN at a time the entire world is facing a pandemic is most insensitive and should be halted forthwith to save Nigerians from the deadly coronavirus. The February 9, deadline is unrealistic […]

Since he assumed office as the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has, no doubt, shown that he is capable of promoting absurdity to an unconceivable height. But then, not even […]

Pan-Igbo group Ohanaeze Ndigbo may have politically shifted to the All Progressives Congress [APC], going by the undercurrents at the election of Ambassador George Obiozor as the new President-general on Sunday. Obiozor virtually had no […]

The conspiracy theories of the outgoing President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, have exposed the flaws in the American democracy which is approaching its third century. The invasion of the Capitol Hill […]

Sometime in 2018, a well-regarded professor of politics in an American university told this writer he would not be surprised if President Donald Trump secured a second term in office. The economy was doing very […]

No school day passes without Nigerian children lustily singing the national anthem during morning assembly. A very significant part of that song is the line which says: “The labour of our heroes past shall never […]

In their antagonistic and fierce competition and struggle for the domination of the world, the so-called developed countries deploy their economic wealth and their science and technology against one another. The upper crust or stratum […]

“Oh, No; Dad; please don’t take that vaccine”, he said “Why not?”, I asked him “They’re going to put a chip in your body and change your DNA. You’re not going to be my dad […]

January 8th is ordinarily not a special date in the annals of the national oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). But it is fast etching itself on the sand of the Corporation’s history […]

The dust Bishop Hassan Kukah raised in his Christmas 2020 sermon has somewhat settled down. At least, I cannot feel it swirling around anymore and inviting sycophantic reactions from the barely informed, the totally uninformed […]

We Nigerians love scandals. By ‘’we’’ I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a workplace get entangled in a sexual congress with […]

It took less than seven years for Nigeria under local leadership to descend into a civil war, less than 30 years for the first open resistance to the establishment in Islamic Northern Nigeria – the […]

It was a portentous statement when the Commander in Chief commented that 1400km stretch, Niger Republic – Nigeria border, is in the hands of God. And the stretch that unites both that 1400km and Chad […]

In part 21 of this serial, I had observed that: “There was a dose of conspiracy theory and ill-fated moves to accuse the US of being responsible for the outbreak of COVID-19 to destabilize its […]

As Nuru appears before the Board of the ethics committee of FCMB today, one unknown issue for trial is Moyo Thomas’s unquestionable beauty. But the memo there is about the ethical qualifications of the MD. […]