Issues/Policy

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 […]

Nigeria’s education sector, which is supposed to be the major and fastest agent of change and civilization is presently burdened and overwhelmed. With the nation’s current population of over 195.9 million, 45 per cent of […]

A former senior Canadian permanent secretary once graphically described a “permanent secretary”: “While governments and ministers come and go, the permanent secretary remains the permanent custodian of permanent problems.” This statement constitutes a apt historical […]

On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), officially reappointed Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission. In an official communication to the Senate President, Ahmed […]

Two weeks ago, a question thoroughly defeated most of those who participated in the week’s homework. It was (and it is) supposed to be a very cheap one but it turned out to be more […]

In “My Dungeon Shock: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundereth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” the first part of “The Fire Next Time,” his non-fiction novel, American writer, James Baldwin, observed, “God gave Noah […]

The constant lip-service among Nigerian political leaders that seem to preen the nation’s youth down and allow them to hope till eternity that they are the leaders of tomorrow has finally been exposed. Under the […]

When people take waste, or surplus amid want, they are filling up a vacuum in nature. The wasters and the hoarders call it a crime —Akhaine The mass of the people struggle against the same […]