Issues/Policy

“Every soul will taste death” Quran (3:185) If you love and care for me, tell me while I’m alive. Don’t send me flowers and write a poem when I’m dead. -Allen Lazar The late Malam […]

The library is one of the most critical forms of social infrastructure that we have. It is also one of the most undervalued! A public library is a non-profit library that is accessible by the […]

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was among the few invited to speak at the recently held annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association. However, El-Rufai’s invitation raised an uproar from members of the NBA, Nigerians […]

drtayooke@gmail.com In the normal run of things, the election of the President of the African Development Bank would be a non-event. Nothing particularly newsworthy to the world at large, especially coming from what the President […]

Whenever you are in a fix concerning how best to express yourself, all you need may just be a figure of speech. Although the figurative elements are often associated with literature, many of them have […]

Even though Nigeria reported another 143 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, suggesting it is time to declare a flattening of the curve, health minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire said the authorities will not do so. […]

The so-called Igbo struggle is an enterprise. Individuals from the South-East, who find themselves in position of political influence, hawk the ‘’Igbo agitation’’ as merchandise in self-seeking ventures. These politicians pursue personal gains robed in […]

COVID-19 hit harder than Mike Tyson in his prime. Everything from manufacturing, retail, oil and gas, hospitality, aviation, hospitality, and construction got hit hard. The economic shutdown brought about lower production, supply, and demand. Supply […]

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 […]