Issues/Policy

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, our own Hajia Amina Mohammed, led a team to visit President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Many things agitated the minds of the UN team, which said it was visiting […]

Now the elections are over, and all speculations have been put to sleep. Let us do what humans are wont to: look back at how we dodged a bullet by not getting hit twice by […]

My youngest son is a musicologist. He loves combing through the Nigerian gospel world in the cyberspace for sonorous voices of comfort bellowing in adoration of our God; and magic fingers fluttering on stringed instruments. […]

“There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” – United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, Tuesday, November 10, 2020. “What we see now (is) a completely manufactured controversy based on no […]

Nigerians applaud whenever the Federal Government makes a promise to put up a presence in their locality. Often, such promises don’t mean anything more than establishing a tertiary institution or construct office blocks for an […]

Prior to the controversial presidential poll of last November 3 this year in the United States of America one of the dramatic events that stunned not a few folks came from Nigeria, my beloved homeland. […]

Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes, then you will see the beast behind the mask. […]

There are many who refer to the amalgamation documents as if they tell us something about the unnatural nature of present day Nigeria. For me the amalgamation document is simply a document of some historical […]

America – that is, the United States of America – is experiencing an unusual political autumn which began on Tuesday, November 3 of 2020 – the Super Tuesday of the presidential election of the super […]

It sounds funny but it is the reality of life. 2nd Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, was a Progressive to the core and he was the Governor of Kaduna State at a […]

Romans 13:1-2 says: “Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. … There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey […]

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation” -Mahatma Gandhi The signs are getting more ominous by the day, talking about Nigeria’s fragile unity, as it […]

Many Nigerians like the drama that marked the November 2 presidential election in the United States of America. It is not that they are addicted to confusion, but they believe that some of the things […]

The battle for America’s White House is practically won and lost, and the free world now knows its leader for the next four years, Joe Biden, a very present fixture of the Washington, DC., establishment […]

When the outbreak of COVID-19 started globally, it was as though Nigerian citizens were different species of humans who were not prone to the virus unlike every other country in the world. Unluckily for Nigeria, […]

The greatest lesson that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore is the evil effects of subsidies on the Nigerian economy. After decades of corruptive spending, called petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government of […]

There is the compelling need to suspend the airing of my thoughts on Citizen Journalism this week as there is an urgent call to sink my teeth into the raging subject of the moment. When […]

The recent disclosure by the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, that his state has reached a deal to supply gold worth N5 billion to the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), has re-opened the […]

Two critical events, coming in a presidential election year, could be said to have conspired in putting an end to the highly controversial presidency of Donald Trump. The murder of George Floyd in May, by […]