Issues/Policy

Despite our frustrations, we have shown strength in diversity more than any race in the world today. With all our wealth in the banking system taken from us and £20 handed to us after the […]

When I read the recent directives by the NCC on SIM card registration and the National Identity Number I was astounded at the willingness of those in government to place their people in danger, in […]

niranadedokun@gmail.com If you are a Nigerian, who lives in this country and places any value on your life and the lives of people around you, you should start to take precautions against COVID-19. For starters, […]

If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power. And I am […]

gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 There is nothing that has not been said about Elon Musk, especially now that he made it to the top of the list of the world’s richest. Many unsavory epitaphs have been attached […]

I have observed with great consternation, even surprise, and I’m sure you too have, that most Nigerians do not believe COVID-19 is real in spite of very compelling evidence including the spiralling infections and rising […]

For the first time in my life, I heard that some Americans were killed and the Capitol vandalised by a mob because of a presidential election. It was the kind of stories we hear from […]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, I began my own TV show on Independent Television, Abuja. The programme themed, Development Focus with Jide Ojo, is scheduled to hold every mid-week from 7 – 9:30am. On the […]

The storming of the US Capitol by a rowdy gang of irreverent domestic terrorists, comprising The Proud Boys, QANON, the Confederate fringe, the Kú Klux Klan, and other ragamuffins, is not the exact equivalent of […]

On the 17th of December, 2020, the NCDC recorded 1145 cases per day. It was the first time new cases had passed the 1000 mark. A little over a week later, South Africa became the […]

Strikingly often, government and its officials continue to assure Nigerians that education is the soul of a nation and the key to its secured future. Therefore, they are doing everything humanly possible within their powers […]

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 […]