Issues/Policy

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak. “It’s a bad combination of pandemic and social media and people looking […]

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said he declined a request made by a mediatory delegation to prevail upon the then detained publisher of Sahara Reporter, Omoyele Sowore, to apologise to President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr […]

Conceived as a developmental agency, to fast-track the growth and welfare of the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Development Commission has, over time, morphed into a spoils sharing behemoth featuring a contracts bazaar of […]

For the last few years, we have had an increase in spousal abuse, stabbing and suicide reports in Nigeria. I have written about suicide prevention in the country, but, I will be discussing anger management […]

Greg Odogwu gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 The recent report from the International Telecommunications Union should wake us up to the impending danger from e-waste overload on the Nigerian environment. According to the ITU, a United Nations’ arm […]

nadedokun@gmail.com In so many ways, the performance of the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, at the House of Representatives’ public hearing on the Niger Delta Development Commission should dishearten rather than excite […]

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com On Monday, a rather dull drama erupted while the House of Representatives Committee on the NDDC investigated allegations of creative accounting in the commission. The acting Managing Director of the […]

The recent visit of Chief Femi Fani Kayode to Zamfara State has generated a lot of interest, concern and, at some quarters, outright condemnation. Many concerned observers raised issues bordering on religion, tribe and section […]

There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics […]

Just last week, I wrote that under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria has not just become a cesspool of corruption, it has become the next level of it. Although at the time I wrote the Op-Ed […]

Nigerians home and abroad were glued to Channels TV live coverage of the ongoing House of Representatives Committee on oversight probing the financial malfeasance of the Niger Delta Development Corporation. The comedy show of the […]

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) We have decided to carve out our own […]

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in most economies, especially in developing countries. SMEs account for the majority of businesses worldwide and are significant to job creation and global economic growth. According […]

Nigeria, like many other African countries that rely on the agricultural sector for their food sustenance and employment generation, is experiencing unfolding events in the country since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 […]

In the game of chess, the pawns are the most in number. They are valuable, and because of their number, can be easily captured. However, if a pawn is able to evade capture from the […]

In mythology as in general everyday communication, Nemesis is reasoned as retribution especially the indignation of the gods when men show signs of hubris or of presumptive arrogance. Nemesis the synonym for an act which […]

Living as an undocumented immigrant in President Trump’s America or having friends and loved ones who match this description means you are set up for numerous bouts of anxiety that could be triggered by something […]

On July 14, 2008, The NEWS Magazine published an article, A Genius Remembered, a tribute to Ayodele Awojobi, the famous Nigerian inventor, public intellectual, academic, author and social crusader. The piece was one of the […]

In recent times the outgoing President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has been the subject of vicious attacks by detractors of all kinds. His trouble appears to have started when he elected to defend […]