Issues/Policy

“Welcome O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time, the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul, the uncreated conscience of my race.” – James Joyce in A […]

World Thrombosis Day 2020 was marked on October 13 all over the world. It focused attention on the often overlooked and misunderstood condition of thrombosis. The theme of this year is ‘Open your eyes to […]

Right now, in Nigeria, the nation roiling, boiling, and burning. Nigerian youths have taken over many major streets especially in Lagos, the commercial capital of the country. In their bones is flaming angst, and in […]

“Soldiers and police opening fire on unarmed youths in an upscale neighbourhood shocked the nation, even older citizens who recalled growing up under a series of military dictatorships” – The New York Times, October 21, […]

After working 15 years with the London Metropolitan Police, six of which were spent working (and socialising) quite closely with uniformed officers, I was fortunate enough to learn and understand to a considerable extent, how […]

It’S been 12 days of sustained nationwide street protests against police brutality under the aegis of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Last week’s reported dissolution of the wayward units and their replacement with the Special […]

The youth uprising against police brutality in Nigeria has taken many by surprise. Conventional wisdom is that the youth are more likely to dance at a concert than sing a protest song. Events of the […]

Power has returned to its rightful repository – the people. Our liberators did not come from the north, the south or the east and west of Nigeria. They emerged from the ruins of the country; […]

Barely four years after the launch of the Lagos-Kebbi Rice christened LAKE Rice, an initiative borne out of the collaboration between Lagos and Kebbi State Governments, the rice has gone out of circulation. During the […]

No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. No army can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing is as […]

In a social media post, I had compared the #EndSARS protest to an Arab predecessor – the Arab Spring. Its Nigerian cousin continues to vibrate day by day, maybe soon – week by week, with […]

Revolutions often start, as we say in Nigeria, ‘like play, like play.’ The current #EndSARS campaign rocking the Nigerian polity started out in much the same way as the French Revolution of 1789 which, perhaps, […]

For well over one week, the polity has been suffused with what President Muhammadu Buhari describes as “genuine concerns and agitations by Nigerians about the excessive use of force and in some cases extra-judicial killings […]

Last week, thousands of protestors took to our streets to oppose police brutality in the #EndSARS campaign. And their protests worked. Immediately! By Sunday, a statement from the office of President Buhari had announced: “the […]

The vulture is a minaciously patient bird. It does not exert itself hunting. It waits to devour the kill of another. It circles the sky while the hunt is on waiting for the opportune time […]

Yearning by the organised labour for improved conditions of service is a normal feature of democracy. The labour unions have the political power to canvass their economic objectives. The organised labour expects the government, be […]

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship – Ralph Nader. The #EndSARS protesters literally took the political class by surprise. Perhaps, the government had arrogantly dismissed the protesters as another set of irritants, […]

The last time that I published an article in this newspaper, I discussed issues surrounding the development of a country that we can refer to as “our own very dear country, Nigeria.” That is what […]