Issues/Policy

The new Companies and Allied Matters Act(CAMA) signed into law recently by President Muhammadu Buhari has generated a lot of reactions, especially from NGOs and churches. What is it about the law that has made […]

THERE is a hardly a day that goes by that we don’t read in the media of billions of naira being stolen by an agency in the central government. The whole thing is sickening. The […]

Dr Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a development economist, and a presidential candidate in the 2019 election under the umbrella of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), resigned from […]

gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 When I saw the news on Tuesday, it eclipsed the uplifting World Health Organisation announcement that Nigeria, and indeed the whole of Africa, has been declared polio-free. Yet, I did not panic. I […]

aadelakun@punchng.com Words could barely describe how irritated I felt watching the has-been, Femi Fani-Kayode, berate a Daily Trust journalist, Charles Eyo, for asking him what seemed like a gotcha question. From the distance of my […]

niranadedokun@gmail.com It is unfortunate that one does not have access to the full version of the recording of Tuesday’s event, where a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, lashed out at a journalist, Mr […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has proposed a 12-month time limit for criminal cases to heard and decided upon. Speaking at the 60th annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Buhari said justice administration in […]

The Nigerian 1999 constitution seeks to prevent corruption, and abuse of office through its provisions on the declaration of assets by pubic officers. According to the law, public officers are to declare only those Assets/Liabilities […]

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them – Aristotle. One of those traditional virtues largely missing in the contemporary period is the culture of owo. The English lexicon has it as: […]

Continued from yesterday According to him, the committees will help to bolster community policing to check criminal activities and assist the Police and other security agencies to provide and ensure the sustainability a crime-free society. […]

The debate concerning the trajectory of the post-COVID-19 world order has begun in earnest. The pandemic constitutes a significant shock to the international system, leading many governments to re-evaluate their global health, trade and security […]

When Governors of South West Nigeria announced the setting up of a regional security outfit, known as Amotekun (Leopard), it seemed a long shot given the delicate nature of policing which is thought to be […]

Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy – but we are pretty old-fashioned when it comes to money. Although many Nigerians are used to receiving money electronically from relatives overseas, at home the vast majority of people […]

As an ardent believer in democracy, the happenings in Mali are maddening! As I feared, the junta that carried out the coup to remove the Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, has come clean on its […]

Last Friday, August 21, 2020, marked exactly one year since the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), inaugurated his 43-member cabinet. In celebration of the day, the presidency listed 35 projects it claimed to have […]

After Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe approached the National Industrial Court to withdraw a lawsuit he instituted against the Dr. Wale Babalakin-led University of Lagos Governing Council that reportedly sacked him from his position of Vice-Chancellor, the […]

It was long before the days of social media. We relied on NTA news at 9pm and newspaper reports to have the full story. Rumour mill too. In the long hours before the full report […]

Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade of modesty, temperance and grace in the son of […]