Issues/Policy

Mainstreaming gender inclusion in governance requires institutional and legal reforms as well as deliberate efforts by political leaders to give women a fair chance to contribute their quota to development, according to panellists at the […]

Any human crawling at age 60 is not medically fit to deal with life. Nigeria, the most populous African country, gained her independence from colonial rule 60 years ago, making it the genesis of self-rule […]

As Nigeria marks its 60th anniversary, I just can’t help but ponder on the inherent complexities and contradictions in its system. Some things appear so contradictory in this country that oftentimes, one is forced to […]

In the Chinese culture, 60 years is a big deal. It is regarded as the beginning of a new life cycle. In Nigeria as well, 60 years is the first significant milestone after the golden […]

Let me confess from the onset that Nigeria is older than me. My random musings about her 60th birthday is therefore as far as I know. I cannot remember precisely my first Independence Day celebration. […]

One of the common denominators of the history of Nigeria is what could have been. From comparison to other nation at independence with the same developmental indexes such as South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia on how […]

On Monday, September 7th, 2020, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) published a press release titled “Matters of Urgent Attention”, in which it x-rayed the state of the national economy and expressed a number of […]

Hans J. Morgenthau, international relations scholar, thinks that the national character of the people of a nation are “certain qualities of intellect and character (that) occur more frequently, and are more highly valued in one […]

Nigeria will be celebrating her 60th Independence Anniversary tomorrow (Wednesday), October 1, 2020. Should we roll out the drums, dance and pump champagne? Of course, not! This is a time for sober reflection. But for […]

Ianticipate that religious societies must have started designing vigils and weekly prayers to fight against the devil for masterminding incessant gas explosions rocking the country. But I have news for them: the devil is no […]

Dear People of Goodwill, I really don’t have time for pleasantries! So I will just get straight to the point! You complain! You murmur! You gripe! You whine! You find fault! You criticize! You grumble […]

With peremptory magistracy and awesome gallantry our founding fathers fought with dogged obduracy for the political independence of our glorious country, Nigeria, They clamoured with no-holds-barred, like the Roman hero Horatius, who fought with Spartan […]

Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our behaviour. If we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together—Boris Johnson. In part […]

Kings of empires were historically imperial, feudal lords. They were fearfully revered. They could decide to take their baths with bucketful of another person’s blood if they wanted. They were the law, the empires and […]

Iwas very skeptical when the current leadership of Organized Labour in Nigeria objected to the decision of the Federal Government to withdraw fuel subsidy and hand over the pump price of petrol to the forces […]

60th Anniversary Lecture on the platform of Association of Retired Career Ambassador of Nigeria (ARCAN). Can mutually acceptable forms of worship be crafted by divinely inspired religious scholars and leaders to promote increasing religious harmony, […]

On Tuesday the 8th of September, 2020 at a scheduled ministerial retreat in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari strove to score a debating point; he sought to set the tone for the day’s agenda. He regaled […]