Issues/Policy

Law is the most powerful means of social control. Societies have different systems for resolving disputes — negotiation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication. In primitive societies like Nigeria, justice is not the highest priority. Nigeria is […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the transfer of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. A statement signed by the Minister ‘s Spokesperson, Mrs Uwa Suleiman, on Monday […]

Nigerian leaders across the tiers of government, especially at the federal level, have reduced fiscal governance to a crude and barbaric joke. A joke carried out at the expense of the people and which produces […]

The history of our planet has been a titanic struggle between viruses and Homo Sapiens. This has been so since the first settled civilisations appeared around Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found evidence […]

Thank you, Mr Charles Eyo, Daily Trust correspondent in Cross River State, for seeking to know who’s bankrolling my tour of projects in Peoples Democratic Party-led states across the country. “Well, I come from a […]

Drivers on e-hailing platforms in Nigeria’s Lagos State are embarking on a week-strike starting on Monday to protest against some aspects of the new regulations by the state. The president of the National Union of […]

Granted that religion is a volatile subject, especially in these climes where God is all we have, we shouldn’t compound our problem with incendiary, self-serving narratives. The CAMA law may not be perfect, but there […]

Always these episodes come about in times of economic difficulties. At such times it is easy to peddle the narrative that local economic interests are being hurt by the predatory and rapacious activity of foreigners. […]

The goal of that strategy must be clearly defined. Here’s one attempt at a statement of that very important all-Igbo goal for 2023: Ndigbo wherever they are based in Nigeria and abroad will support any […]

You may not understand what inimitable Fela Anikulapo’s early days of Koola Lobitos’ ballistics-sounding song, with the refrain, Alujanjan kijan, was about until you hear the full anecdote. It goes thus: A very debilitating drought […]

Barack Obama’s plea for his friend and her running mate was contained in a recent tweet. But what’s the point in Barack Obama pleading for his friend, Joe Biden and her running mate, Kamala Harris? […]

It may not look that way now, but one day, President Muhammadu Buhari will be out of power. It seems that assessing his legacy from within has already begun. Last week, spokesman Femi Adesina fired […]

mibelema@bellsouth.net Most people are familiar with the age-old question, “What do women want?” For Nigeria, the variant to that question is, “What do Muslims want?” It is a question that arises only in the context […]

The month of July marked the 120th anniversary of the first Pan-African Conference, held 15 years after the partition of Africa had been sealed at the notorious Berlin Conference. Trinidadian lawyer, Henry Sylvester Williams – […]

This is yet another time to advise the authorities in Abuja and other state capitals on the expediency of taking perception management as a serious national security issue – before it is too late. I […]

When Donald Trump was awarded the presidency of the United States of America in 2016, many optimistic humans said that it was only four years and the idiot will be voted out of the presidency. […]

Chief David Femi Fani-Kayode burst into national consciousness in 1990 when as a member of the then National Republican Convention (NRC), he was appointed as the Chief Press Secretary to the former Chairman of the […]

There are different stages in marriage when a couple may begin to experience a sense of fear about their future together. Like any big changes in life, marriage can also go through many stages of […]

Greetings. I am Kemi, A young lady characterized with laughter, friendliness, humour, intelligence and love for life. I am a second year student at the Department of Special Education, University of Ibadan. My growing up […]

There is no gainsaying that our world has changed immeasurably in recent since the turn of the year as the globe tries to reboot after coronavirus pandemic shuts down country after country. We can’t place […]