Issues/Policy

At the ripe old age of 11, when people are typically most concerned with videogames, action figures and the onset of pubescence, I had a different set of, externally enforced, concerns. Born into a religious […]

Violent crisis of ethnic and religious complexion does not just happen. It grows relentlessly like cancer and metastasises until irreversible fatality. Some of the bloodiest riots in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa have been spawned […]

There are very many reasons to celebrate our country just as there are also very many awful things we wish our country would have addressed or never have done. I would have been happy to […]

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, who was sacked from office over allegations that he misappropriated funds, Babachir Lawal, tells HINDI LIVINUS that the party risks losing the next presidential election if […]

The increasing climate emergency is greatly impacting food production and food supply chains and further fueling global hunger. Given the severity of food insecurity globally, and particularly across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly since the outbreak of […]

The Nigerian federation system is based on a three-tier system made up of the Federal Government, 36 state governments and 774 local governments. The 1999 Federal Constitution of Nigeria, Section 77(1) stipulates that: the system […]

Dear Aunty Temilolu, I am a student of the University of Lagos and currently studying Accounting. I have been looking for someone to confide in but couldn’t trust anyone around for fear of criticisms. I […]

When a relationship that means something to you is troubled, what you do is enable honest reflections. In the absence of genuine reflections, facades are stowed. In troubled moments, there are dispositions not to subject […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is reordering society and accelerating changes in many dramatic ways, for better and for worse. This global, novel virus has also exposed deadly flaws in the governance and health care systems around […]

The Bini word “Nosagie” (“Osagie” for short) translates roughly as “the one sent by God”. For incumbent Edo governor, the invocation of “Godwin” undoubtedly served as a talisman in his electoral conquest of 2016. For […]

Corruption As An Enterprise In Nigeria – Both the American Heritage Dictionary (1981) and the Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary (2010) described corruption as an act of being corrupt. Corruption derives it’s meaning from the Latin word […]

Except perhaps South Africa, credible statistics on the extent of the COVID-19 infection in African countries are lacking. Hypotheses on the rapid degradation of the virus in tropical settings have yet to be proven as […]

In my high school days in Nigeria, I was a geeked tub-thumper of Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmond Burke. I still am. Among the horde of Burke’s gingering and spiriting philosophical sayings, one stands out […]

Recently, some leaders visited the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. The visit was part of the effort to stem violence in a part of the state. I took note that Rev. Yakubu Pam, […]

Widespread international condemnation has greeted the seizure of power by soldiers in Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries. The United Nations, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, the United States, […]

In 2010, former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Princeton N. Lyman, delivered a brutally frank appraisal of the state of the Nigerian nation at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University, USA. He spoke against the backdrop […]

With the hue and cry of religious bodies/leaders over the provisions of the new Companies and Allied Matters Act(CAMA) 2020 as to removal and suspension of trustees of churches, mosques, charitable bodies and non-governmental organisations, […]

I welcome the House of Representatives decision to probe the $400 million Chinese loan. But the probe appears to primarily focus on the sovereign clause in the loan agreement. Indeed, this was what triggered the […]