Issues/Policy

The notion of what constitutes the strength of the government is often misconstrued with adverse consequences. As posited by Oseloka H. Obaze in his new book, Waning Strength of Government, “the strength of the government […]

Hope that the country’s economy would rejuvenate, expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presentation of the 2021 budget estimates to the joint sitting of the National Assembly is unrealistic. It certainly is not backed […]

The Federal Government has been presenting the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System to the public as if it is the main reason the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on strike on March 23, […]

Last week, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said he was going to stop the payment of pensions to his predecessors and former deputy governors of the state. He said this while presenting his 2021 […]

Sisyphus, King of Corinth in Tartasus, was condemned to an unending task of rolling a boulder uphill, only for the boulder to roll downhill, and for him to start the task all over again, and […]

Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for some predetermined recidivist motives. In particular, the so-called […]

On November 30, 2019, I left Detroit for Nigeria after a conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. To be sure, there was no hint of a Coronavirus outbreak. With hindsight, I would […]

The state of healthcare delivery in the country is, to say the least, appalling and there has been too much national lamentation over the situation for too long. Therefore, the need to improve healthcare system […]

If anything defines the challenge of nation-building in Nigeria, it is that in world history ideas have made the difference between poverty and prosperity; peace and progress; and triumph versus tribulation, yet the political power […]

Memories of Grandma is a fascinating account of some aspects of Anike-ade Funke Treasure’s childhood years in Ijebu-Ode, Ibadan, Ode-Omu and Dagbolu—all in the South-Western Nigeria. The author grew up knowing and being loved dearly […]

Hello Uncle Jimi, I was impressed by your candid outburst on radio this morning over the issue of Lagos population. This is what some of us have seen years ago and also faulted Gov. Fashola’s […]

Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for some predetermined recidivist motives. In particular, the so-called […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) have been embroiled in recurring conflict about funding and autonomy of Nigerian public universities. Established in 1978 as the successor to […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s recent announcement of plans by his administration to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for the payment of humongous pension and other mouth-watering privileges […]

Nigeria’s inflation rate jumped to 14.23 per cent, year-on-year, in October on the back of escalating food prices and a protracted crisis in the foreign exchange (FOREX) market. The composite inflation rate rose from 13.71 […]

By NJ Ayuk If I called 2020 a terrible year for the oil industry, no one would take exception. Demand collapsed in the spring, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has […]

The 23rd child of his father, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) joined the military in 1962 at 19 and at 40, he toppled a democratically elected civilian government to become Head of State before he […]

Special Anti-Robbery Squad, popularly known as SARS is a unit of the Nigerian Police Force charged with the primary function of performing undercover operations against crimes associated with armed robbery, car theft, kidnapping, and crimes […]