Issues/Policy

In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box was opened and every manner of ills was unleashed on mankind. By the time it was shut only hope was left in the jar, in today’s pandemic world, the Pandora’s […]

Nigeria is a canvass of conflicting and colliding counter narratives. A narrative of disrepair and dilapidation occupies one hand: a country where only dysfunction functions in a nauseatingly familiar fable. Two packs a punch on […]

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error – Tryon Edwards […]

The Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, said, yesterday, that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, cannot be scrapped because of its potency in combating criminality and deadly criminal gangs […]

Reacting to the agitation for Oduduwa Nation, General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, warned General Muhammadu Buhari that “We all know that we must restructure. It is either we restructure […]

First, a caveat; we are Nigerians before anything else. Thank you. And as Nigerians living in a supposed democratic Nigeria, it is natural to air our feelings because we are in Nigeria. What’s more, our […]

I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking out of the supposed cabal-stitched straitjacket into a tinderbox […]

I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking out of the supposed cabal-stitched straitjacket into a tinderbox […]

It is disheartening to observe that the once flourishing and bustling environment of Kaduna is today a poor shadow of itself, no thanks to the internecine crises of its outlying parts and to a previously […]

In the last two weeks during my absence from this beat, a lot of things have happened to prove, if any proof was needed, that these indeed are bad times, instead of good times, for […]

How can we fix Nigeria and make it a country of our dream? How can we create a place where everybody will have a fair share of whatever that exists, where people’s rights are not […]

It was incorrect for the NLC and TUC leaders to agree that the fuel price hike and the deregulation of the PMS market are inevitable. The union leaders should not have agreed that market forces […]

Abandoned homes, deserted compounds and desolate communities are, nowadays, common scenes in parts of southern Kaduna. Insecurity-fuelled fear has forced many residents — mostly women and children — to find abodes in saner climes. In many of the attacked […]

To some observers, Julius Berger, Nigeria’s foremost construction company, is known for excellence. Because of the quality of their work, they are the darling of successive governments in the country since they opened shop in […]

drtayooke@gmail.com Let me say from the outset, that this week’s write-up is from the perspective of a financial lawyer. This is all the more so for the technical nature of the subject matter, and the […]

In the family of relative pronouns, whose can be described as a younger brother of ‘who’, which is normally used for humans. On the other hand, ‘which’ collocates with non-humans. As a result, when we […]

At a time Nigeria was marking her 60th independence anniversary last week, it was strange that rather than rolling out the drums of celebration, what was on the lips of most Nigerians was “break-up”. The […]