Issues/Policy

In July 2019, we announced the imposition of visa restrictions on Nigerians, who undermined the February and March 2019 elections. Today, the Secretary of State is imposing additional visa restrictions on individuals for their actions […]

The word, ‘bastard’, has been trending in Nigeria for two weeks. This is courtesy of Port Harcourt-based pastor, David Ibiyeomie, who called Lagos-based broadcaster, Daddy Freeze, a bastard. The description has since sparked the kind […]

A good idea that is coming out as an imposed federal law, instead of an agreement between the Federal Government and the federating units, is the Water Resources Bill that has entered its Third Reading […]

It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar. Nigerians that marched across the […]

CHIEF Olusegun Obasanjo never imagined that Nigeria would get to this point. His rating of Nigeria as a failing state is a patriotic version of the Fragile States Index statistics which rate Nigeria as 14th […]

Continued from yesterday This is known as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of infection. Antibody Dependent Enhancement of infection must be ruled out in every vaccine against coronaviruses. Let us note that SARS is caused by […]

This instalment deals with corruption, a pandemic within a pandemic. This is a systemic pathology that has rendered many societies impoverished because of a thieving elite profiting from the misfortune of their societies. With COVID-19 […]

Apparently, the North deserves pity. But is it worth crying for? Whichever angle you want to look at it, and through whichever prism you want to look at the Hobbesian state of its conditions today, […]

I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to change my […]

Edo State gubernatorial election billed for September 19, 2020 promises to be interesting amid trepidation and anxiety in the run-up to it. The vibrancy of the electioneering campaign lends credence to the axiom that Edo […]

One character of the Nigerian political leadership that has become entrenched and which has not been in the overall interest of the country since independence in 1960 is the penchant of the leaders to always […]

After a failed attempt to buy the German company Curevac so that it could obtain sole rights to the coronavirus vaccine, it tried unsuccessfully to secure the first doses of a vaccine by investing 30 […]

Recently, the media and the whole world woke up to a trending story of how a former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a politician, lawyer, poet and popular social media practitioner, Chief David […]

It is now more than six months since Nigeria reported its index case of Coronavirus. On March 23, the country closed its airports to all international flights and commercial operations, for a month, in the […]

Forms of popular uprisings in Africa Two major forms of popular uprisings are noticeable on the continent. The first is a widely supported popular military action that results in regime change. Such actions usually end […]

Mr President is in the eye of the storm recently for bravely realizing the inevitable expungement of the fuel subsidy in Nigeria, brave due to the extreme furore and knee jerk reaction by some gullible […]

In 1996, General Sani Abacha launched Vision 2010. It was a total failure. In 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo came up with Vision 20:2020. President Umaru Yar’Adua launched the blueprint in 2009. According to the goals […]

It was the second week of the 1972 Summer Olympics held in the German city of Munich. The Israeli athletes had just enjoyed a night out watching a performance of ”Fiddler on the Roof” by […]

The House of Representatives recently uncovered the immunity clause in the loans agreement that enabled Nigeria obtain loans to finance the rail projects and the $400 million loan for the Nigeria National Information and Communication […]

Sickle cell disease is a genetic multisystemic disorder characterised by chronic anaemia, episodes of acute and possible chronic pain, progressive organ failure and a possibility of reduced life expectancy. It is originally a blood disorder […]