Issues/Policy

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. […]

Professor Andy Ogochukwu Egwunyenga was appointed as the seventh substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Delta State University, (DELSU), Abraka, with effect from 1st December 2019. It was a befitting gift to end the year, not just […]

Nigerians have entered this New Year, Two Thousand and Twenty One (Anno Domini), amidst a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightened insecurity and political tension, as well as deteriorating economic fortunes across the land. […]

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has described Matthew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, as a patriot and a lover of truth. Reacting to the outrage over Kukah’s Christmas message to President Muhammadu Buhari, […]

Many of my readers would by now have watched Tunde Bakare’s viral video where he came out swinging in defence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and made a number of claims. Among them were that some […]

All it requires for evil to triumph over good, though temporarily, is for men of conscience and goodwill to keep quiet and do nothing, so goes a popular saying. In the last couple of days, […]

Compliments of the season and wishing you a beautiful New Year. May the coming season bring joy, sound health, prosperity and overall fulfilment. I know many of us are in holiday mood already. Indeed, if […]

drtayooke@gmail.com Looking at this well-worn phrase in reverse, it is apt to start the review of 2020, the annus horribilis of modern time, with the most ugly of the century: the coronavirus pandemic and its […]

There is a yearly ritual that precedes the death of an old year and the birth of a new one. We gather at homes, offices and faith-based places and pray for the New Year to […]

In the aftermath of some incidents suggestive of manifest governance failures, some Nigerians and groups have put the blame on President Buhari. In consequence, he has been asked to resign. Among a multitude of those […]

When some of us were young, our country had the promise of greatness. We entertained the vision of a New Jerusalem. Today, it has become a dream deferred. There is a creeping, odious despondency in […]

The Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities announced a truce last week after almost a year of a maddening display of state irresponsibility. Government acceded to some of the university lecturers’ demands and […]

Although the coronavirus pandemic dealt a heavy blow to global public health and economy, this year has seen some positive developments, and some signs of hope for humanity and pointers to a better future. One […]