Issues/Policy

‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate hands of kismet, that recession hits Nigeria every time […]

The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated its potent ability to afflict and paralyse social and economic systems with no regard for techno-economic status. Quite frankly, social distancing, the use of face masks, hand washing […]

It’s wrong for a foreign media organization to poke nose into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. By Nigeria’s unwritten law, exclusively known to our leaders, the life and death of Nigerian citizens absolutely […]

When the quintet of us met early in September to moot the idea of commemorating his 60th birthday there was thick apprehension. How would the man receive this? This question went round. Do we inform […]

The message that I received recently reads “I woke up crying this morning. I try to be a dad and mum to my children and it weighs me down but I still pick myself up […]

Are you an employee and challenged by infertility? How are you dealing with issues regarding infertility in your workplace? For many women, infertility can be a painful experience, and one that can be difficult to […]

When a bird loses its wings, it is no better than a chick running round and merely looking up longingly. It can’t soar into the azure sky, and is just doomed for a certain time […]

Five years after leaving office as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has continued to shine bright as a distinguished African statesman, peacemaker, and nation builder. He has been actively […]

The #EndSARS protest, one of the most extensive and organised civil uprising in our postcolonial history, has continued to generate ripples nationally and globally. For example, the youth upsurge or what is now popularly denoted […]

The amphitheatre was chokingly chockablock. It was the first and only presidential debate between three candidates jostling to be Nigeria’s president. Seun Okinbaloye of Channels TV was the anchor. One by one, the candidates were […]

The Federal Government is to build glittering new airports in Anambra, Ekiti, Nasarawa, Benue, and Ebonyi states. Good news, I think. They will be a glittering state of the art airports, no less. The government, […]

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 […]