Issues/Policy

We have to face up to the truth; the truth about Christian fundamentalism. The church today has been sculpted in the image of extremists and demagogues – men who arrogate to themselves the power of […]

The recent death sentence delivered by the Upper Sharia court in respect of a 22 years old man who allegedly used derogatory statement against Prophet Mohammed in Kano State, does not only shows the level […]

It was Professor Dotun Phillips, a development economist then of the University of Ibadan, who in the 1970s theorised a seminal differentiation between growth and development. His analogy of a grown child who critically lacks […]

For the better part of this and the previous week, Nigeria’s social media space has been agog with arguments for and against the invitation of Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the […]

There is a school of thought with the conjecture that recent events in the Nigerian socio-political space are all indicative of on-going calculations and permutations for regional relevance and political preeminence for control of authoritative […]

Why has conflict resolution been a ticklish subject in Africa’s most populous black nation? Why has peacebuilding been as difficult as forcing a stream to flow uphill in the world’s most populous black nation? I […]

On March 10, 2010, Nigerians bent the capricious hand of kismet; they rose against the pirating of the presidency. Nigerian libertarians, in their hundreds, converged on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and marched to the […]

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All praises are due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, companions and those who follow him […]

Perhaps there is a second theory to this. The Stockholm syndrome: That terrible affliction that compels you to start sympathising with your tormentor, believing that you deserve the bad treatment you are getting. Does it […]

Igbos in the PDP are sleepwalking to 2023. I have put my ears to the ground but I have heard nothing. Tepid murmurs. Shuffling of feet. Nothing else, besides snores. Where are the Igbos in […]

Some women were recently caught with babies said to be ‘’a few days old.’’ It was further discovered that they specialised in selling newborns. I want to address couples who may be moved to “find […]

The word “criticism” is not a word most couples want to relate with in their marriage as it is often connected with negative practices of gauging a partner’s faults which often lead to provocation when […]

When the phenomenon of private universities was emerging in the country some decades ago, it used to be thought that they would remain permanently inferior to the public ones (those of the Federal Government in […]

“Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Give him food, he will praise you and sing for you” Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. 30/8/2018. “Tell the truth, and let the devil be ashamed!” These were the refrains of […]

The public was recently overcome with amazement over the news that one Sunday Shodipe, a nineteen years old man, who allegedly killed a number of persons in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, had […]

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai came into the public limelight in 1999 when democracy returned back to the country after a sixteen year hiatus of military misrule. The then President Olusegun Obasanjo made El-Rufai the Director-General of […]

A military spokesman has reportedly faulted the claim that the gains of counter-insurgency operations were now being eroded in Borno State. This is a matter both the military and the people of Borno State are […]