Issues/Policy

Dear Mr President, It’s been a while I lent my voice to matters that border on how I’m governed. Nigerians are dying in tens and scores. Terrorism has not abated as we are made to […]

Mental illness is one of the most stigmatised illnesses in the world, especially in Africa. This attitude has serious social implications for affected persons. Many have been denied marriage and other employment opportunities even when […]

If someone terribly damages your belongings such as a car and a laptop, angrily you may say, ‘He did a lot of damages to my car.’ There is a problem with the expression because ‘damage’ […]

drtayooke@gmail.com So much has been said and written about sovereignty and loan in reference to China in the last week that the public will have found a little bewildering. That Nigerian loan negotiators willingly signed […]

Indeed, as the countdown to the September 19 poll begins, Edo airwaves have understandably become divided fiercely along partisan lines. No less fierce is the babel growing outside Edo’s borders. While a few are driven […]

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is the policeman for broadcasting in Nigeria. As a regulator it is supposed to be a moderator and an arbiter of good taste in broadcasting. This is an important but […]

Against the backdrop of gross underdevelopment of the oil-rich Niger-Delta region characterized by environmental despoliation, poverty and despondency there was established in July 1992, by decree number 23 the Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission […]

Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic […]

THIS is not the time to hold grudges against Malam Nasir El-Rufai. It is not the time to say he, like Napoleon, suffers a small man’s syndrome, or that he pulled down the homes of […]

The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic offered an opportunity for a critical evaluation and rethinking of our investments and management of the health sector. At the initial stage, public officers and private sector executives made […]

This is primarily an economics column. But I plead with my gentle readers to forebear with me as I go on a personal detour. There was, uhmm, a storm in a tea cup the other […]

Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo – one man, one name, one destiny; complicated personality. For the Yoruba, names hold special meanings and are categorised into five, namely: Oruko Amutorunwa (predestined names), Oruko Abiso (acquired names), […]

Many have wondered why Imo State is the unemployment centre of the nation. They have argued that it means that the government in Imo State, over the years, has done a more terrible job than […]

The World Health Organisation in 2002 provided an expansive definition of sexual violence as “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances or acts of traffic, or otherwise directed […]

This pestilence madly buffeting our attempts to escape from the morass of underdevelopment despite our endowment with natural and human resources cannot be abandoned to the mountebanks to fix. We cannot entrust a cat to […]

“Government Subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation” – Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) “You either get free stuff or you get freedom. […]

Determined to alleviate poverty among member states, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commission has donated 3,999 tonnes of grains to the Federal Government with commitment to salvage over 7 million people currently […]