Issues/Policy

When Isaac Newton proposed the first law of motion, I doubt if he had the concept of leadership in mind. I hope he will not turn in his grave if I borrowed his invention briefly. […]

I write this post-mortem letter to you Your Excellency, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, Dan Masanin Kano, of blessed memory, to intimate you on the battered situations in the country after your demise. Before detailing to […]

Let us be frank with ourselves, is there anything to indeed be happy about on the 1st of January 2021? Come on, I am sure some will be thinking I am an ingrate for the […]

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of interacting with a Nigerian co-passenger on a long flight to London. Apart from sharing a common love for Bollywood, we also happened to share the same […]

Year 2020 is finally behind us (cue the cheers). By all accounts, it was a most unusual year – devastating for many, inconvenient for most. Yet now we have a chance for a fresh start, […]

As the year 2020 rolled out of our lives, I called out our team to organise ourselves for this new year 2021. Every four weeks, we shall have a turnaround of topics: a book review, […]

There are indeed some issues in one’s life time, which neither time nor event can obliterate from one’s memory. I have seen a lot of these events as a journalist, especially in and around Abuja […]

2020 was, for millions of people, largely upside down for humanity. As at this end of the year, almost over 2 million lives had been lost to the cold hands of Covid-19. Life turned on […]

Once again the truth has been spoken, and once again the truth has been refuted. Yet again the purveyor and proponent of the truth is being pummeled and castigated by the deniers of that same […]

FOR many Nigerians, the year 2020, which ended with a whimper on Thursday, was unremarkably bleak. In most respects, especially in health, security, agriculture, education, social life and the economy, 2020 inflicted more misery on […]

It is my conviction that this is the year of HEALING for humanity in general. The sole intention of every lover of humanity in these times should be ‘’helping to heal the world.’’ Such efforts […]

The medications that you take can affect your fertility. Your fertility may actually drop if you’re taking certain medicines. When you are planning a family, it is essential to beware of the kind of medications […]

Late Dr. Tai Solarin (1922-1994) was one of Nigeria’s foremost, courageous and steadfast social activists. He was also a compelling writer with radical messages. In one of his famous write ups, titled: “May Your Road […]

For Lagos State, the past year was striking in diverse ways. For one, it was a year when the State became the nation’s epicenter of two striking events. The first is the COVID-19 pandemic, while […]

By my educated guess, it will take four decades to put Nigeria together after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria is like humpty-dumpty – broken, amputated and cannibalised. The Buhari administration has wrought irreparable […]

No one saw 2020 coming as anything other than a normal year. Not our foremost scientists. Not even our first-rate, jet-owning prophets who speak with God every midnight. No prophet predicted the doomsday that 2020 […]

It was a bad Christmas day everywhere in Benin City I escaped from Lasgidi, our one and only lagoon city in the southwest of our boisterous, booming country currently suffering what it should not suffer. […]