Issues/Policy

The question of whether the law of defamation is a hindrance to freedom of speech and a curtailment to democratic process confronted the Burkinabe a few years ago. Lohe Issa Konaté was Burkina Faso’s own […]

The 45-year-old sprawling University of Calabar Teaching Hospital complex is in dire need of a face-lift, except that this seems the concern of a first-time visitor that kept thinking of why the complex should be […]

The reception is a box-like building encased in neat glass panels. This afternoon, shadows from surrounding trees reflected on the panels, and you could see their foliage flailing in the wind’s caress. “Kigali Genocide Memorial,” […]

Paul Anyebe was a judge of the high court of Benue state in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad […]

It is said that seeing is believing. But for the Nigerian, seeing alone may not be enough. There must be certainty and palpability not only to the sensory apparatuses but also to logic. Bottomline, there […]

A dilapidated federal road, 83 kilometres long, which connects Akwa Ibom with Cross River state, has become a source of embarrassment to Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Constructed in 1975, the road has been in a […]

Coming down the escalator in 2015, the entire globe was greeted with an ideology, though not entirely new to world politics but viewed as unpopular, not only in the political landscape of the strongest and […]

It was not surprising to see which item captured media and public attention in the interim financial reports of pay television giant MultiChoice Group. The results, released on Tuesday, revealed a subscriber decline of 243,000 […]

On October 1, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan in his Independence Day broadcast to the nation, declared the intention of his Government to organise a National Dialogue as a way of resolving the intractable security and […]

Agboola Ajayi, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo, says he does not trust the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a credible election. Ajayi spoke on Saturday after casting his […]

We read the story of the News Conference by a group called Kwara Redemption Movement and wish to set the record straight and expose the lies by Chief Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, the spokesman of the […]

Just when you are tempted to give up on Nigeria, something happens and your hope survives another brutal assault yet again. The incident involving Hon. Alex Mascot Ikwechegh has once more assured me that Nigeria […]

In today’s world, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually encroaching on human creativity, limiting the impact of creative writing as a powerful tool of communication, Azu Ishiekwene’s book, Writing for Media and Monetising It addresses […]

“A judge shall avoid developing excessively close relationship with frequent litigants – such as government ministers or their officials, municipal officials, police prosecutors in any court where the judge often sits, if such relationship could […]

As I was concluding this piece, my eyes caught a presidential sledgehammer which landed on the head of Conscience Nurtured by Truth – The Guardian. In a release issued by the State House yesterday, authored […]

For years, official reports on Nigeria’s economy have presented figures that often seem disconnected from Nigerians’ everyday experiences—especially as inflation continues to erode purchasing power and the cost of essentials keeps climbing. In November, the […]

In Nigeria’s volatile political landscape, President Bola Tinubu’s recent cabinet reshuffle announced on October 23, 2024 has ignited waves of criticism and raised profound questions about his administration’s dedication to genuine reform. While officials describe […]