Issues/Policy

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 […]

Three months after his passage, the race to succeed Dr Michael Ameh Oboni II, the late Attah of Igala kingdom may have become an open battle. The 27th Attah Igala joined his ancestors on August […]

For several months now, coronavirus has enveloped the world and like a cocoon to a larva, it has continued to rage, gnaw towards the west and other parts of the world. When you expect it […]

The complexity of today’s economic environment requires leaders to develop a coordinated strategy to promote organisational sustainability and maintain a competitive advantage in the global economy. A leadership preparedness strategy focused on the development of […]

Nigeria is eagerly awaiting a foreign COVID-19 vaccine. Early in November, in reaction to the Pfizer announcement of its successful human trials, President Muhammadu Buhari said the development of one would be a “major milestone” […]