Issues/Policy

The trial of the former Chairperson of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, cannot be more urgent than the prosecution of hundreds of terrorists and bandits that have been in custody without being charged […]

Let’s begin the lesson by identifying the error in the statement below. The governor she said had gone. Confusing? You are right if you say it is confusing and ambiguous. What does the writer mean, […]

There is no denying the fact that the pandemic and its fall out has had and is having a devastating effect on the economy of individuals and nations. Research has shown that there has been […]

Political representation enables the people of a democratic nation to choose, usually by election, some of their number to act on their behalf at a council of state, for it will be cumbersome for all […]

I’m just giving you some ideas to be critical thinkers and to know what you’re proposing in these vaccines and to research these things for yourself. You really have to know how it’s not just […]

Sometimes, a person lives a simple but active life as a citizen in a country without holding any high public office. Yet at the end of his or her span through his or her little […]

“I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. I’m not joking, I know I’m on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother […]

In 1982, I watched my first ever World Cup, hosted by Spain. During the tournament, my favourite team was Brazil. With an array of talented stars such as Zico, Eders, Socrates, Junior, Falcao and a […]

Continued from Thursday Many of the state governments have not paid N18,000 per month minimum wage of the previous administrations and have vowed not to pay N30,000 which is the present. Yet, the politicians pay […]

drtayooke@gmail.com For those who might glance through this write-up with a bored yawn, I implore you not to. Former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina and his cloak and dagger entreaties with the law […]

Currently Nigeria has 31 airports. Twenty six of them are operated by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The others are run by State Governments that own them. There are also a number of […]

The statement credited to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, that Nigeria, Africa’s acclaimed largest economy, should exit its recession by the end of this year is ridiculous. There is […]

The Arab Spring, also called the Arab Awakening, Arab Uprising or Jasmine Revolution was a term used to refer to the wave of peaceful protests, demonstrations, and civil unrest, that swept through the Arab world […]

The Egungun imagery that I deploy here to adulate Olaniyan alludes to the Yoruba cultural practice of immortalization and memorialization.In the Yoruba cultural landscape, ancestors are created through death:when oldfamily members die, they become ancestors, […]

THERE is a sickening campaign by some unfeeling persons that those who claim there were killings at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020 or are searching for missing loved ones who went to the […]

I love Nigeria. But there is a part of me, to echo the poet, Rupert Brooke, that is forever England. Perhaps it’s on account of her medieval knights and Plantagenet troubadours; her baroque royal trumpets; […]

From the outset let me make two confessions. I love good organized professional soccer though it is not by any means the first in my interest list. The first remains the modern American professional wrestling. […]

Nigerians must have breathed a sigh of relief following the report that significant progress has been made at the meeting of the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held on Friday […]

The commonest question for a primary 1 pupil like my lovely son NaetoChukwu is to ask him “Why is government necessary.”He will quickly tell you that government exists for security. Government in the thinking of […]

The morning after the night when protesters at Lekki toll gate were supposedly massacred by the Nigerian Army, the BBC News hour programme interviewed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu around 6am on whether he invited the army […]