Issues/Policy

The presidential pardon granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to former Nationalist and Minister, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (1923-2010) and also to Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli (1929-1989), former Governor of the defunct Bendel state and […]

The campaigns of the first-tier contenders in the Edo governorship election have been largely ensconced in the agitprop of godfatherism. While Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of the state, claims he is wrestling against the forces […]

aadelakun@punchng.com When the latest brickbat exchange between pastors and Ifedayo Olarinde (aka Daddy Freeze) started, I simply wanted to watch how this round would play out differently from the last time. However, after reading the […]

Chief Bola Ige would have celebrated his 90th birthday last Sunday September 13, were he to be on this side of eternity. Instead, he is with the ancestors, those eternal beings that fascinated him to […]

To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with a pandemic the scale of […]

In the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, the University of Ibadan (UI), for the first time since 2016 when it started featuring in the ranking exercise, made a huge leap forward in […]

Dear Alhaji Lai Mohammed, I didn’t know I would have to comment on the state of the nation again so soon after a recent response to presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, on the courage exhibited […]

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 […]