Issues/Policy

“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 […]

The #EndSARS protests against the now-dissolved police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which began as a campaign aimed at ending the spate of police brutality against innocent citizens in the country, ironically, snowballed into, perhaps, the […]

It is the belief of many Nigerians that our country is perhaps at a most dangerous time in its history. This is not because of the bellicose sloganeering from the professional troublemakers and the politicians, […]

The #EndSARS protests against the now-dissolved police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which began as a campaign aimed at ending the spate of police brutality against innocent citizens in the country, ironically, snowballed into, perhaps, the […]

The last time an amendment was made to the laws governing elections in Nigeria was in the year 2010. That is clearly ten years ago, when the Electoral Act was amended. From that period up […]

What actually happened in Nigeria, from October 8, 2020 to the last week of that month? Did we see a protest, a revolt, an uprising, a rebellion, a nihilist – anarchist self-expression, an insurrection or […]

Here is something you should find as interesting as I do. We have a huge national asset that we seem to ignore as we cast about in search of a formula for building or rebuilding […]

One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ‘’promoting and supporting’’ democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of dollars ‘’promoting and supporting’’ its own genre of democracy […]

For long, we chided Nigerian youths for their greed-laced indolence, civil indifference and political passivity. With the #EndSARS protest, which started, almost spontaneously, in reaction to the brutality and bestiality of the now disbanded Special […]

Juidical panels inquiring into the grievances of youths and the aftermath of EndSARS protests are swinging into action in several states. The governors have done well by promptly setting up the panels which are expected […]

The extra-ordinary skill, industry, and panache that attended the execution of the two-week-long #EndSARS protests which were brutally terminated by gun-blazing agents of the state were simply outside of the Nigerian ken. The young people […]