Issues/Policy

There’s no other way to say it, so let me just speak frankly. Thanks to Donald Trump’s stunning lack of leadership, America’s in a state that can only be described as free fall. Rarely in […]

Let it be stated from the onset that the angst is not against the humongous mouthwatering prizes totaling N85 Million earmarked for the winner of big brother Naija Season 5. At the end of the […]

There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted — with connectors to social crusaders, polemicists, activists and civic […]

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

Before I got married, if I said, “Even though my father and I sucked our fingers, my children will not suck their fingers,” friends and relatives would sneer: “Easier said than done. We will see […]

she will spend the rest of her life in hopefully. I condemn the voices that have risen in opposition to her nomination not on account of her competence, experience, capacity or character but only on […]

Tayo Oke drtayooke@gmail.com In a federal system of government, you have the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary as “co-equal” arms of government. Each has its own distinct, constitutionally defined functions. The legislature debates and makes laws, […]

To fully answer the question that forms the title of our discussion today, it is important to pose a subsidiary question: a mistake for whom or from whose perspective? Now, going by the saying that […]

More questions, emerged, yesterday, over the death of the late Flight Officer, Tolulope Arotile, as the umbrella body of Yoruba-speaking areas of Kogi State, Okun Development Association, ODA, called on the Federal Government to order […]

Like other commodity farmers suffering from the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, vegetable farmers have continued to count their losses due to low patronage. The Guardian learnt that due to the perishable nature of the […]

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I come to you in peace. Nevertheless, I do not have a nicer way of putting this to you: your government is falling apart. I do not know how to make […]

A former classmate who hit Tolulope Arotile, first female combat helicopter pilot of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), “has no driver’s licence”. Arotile died from head injuries on Tuesday when she was knocked down by […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has named the railway complex in Agbor, Delta state, after former President Goodluck Jonathan. Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, announced this while inspecting the Warri-Itakpe rail line on Saturday. He also expressed […]

mibelema@bellsouth.net If you want a capsule of the story of COVID-19 at this time, you can’t do much better than to read of a friend’s recent experience. The New York City resident lived through one […]

Were you looking for the spelling of callousness? Arrogance? Try: NDDC. That is Nigeria’s Niger Delta Development Commission, which appears to be the new NNPC, in the process putting the Muhammadu Buhari government on trial. […]

Sometime in March this year when it announced its appearance in Nigeria, many people did not take it seriously. Even the authorities were lackadaisical in their attitude. But in a matter of days, as it […]

When my friend and brother Tunde Osunmakinde said we will just have to keep watching this film that is Nigeria, I felt that deeply, I knew he had said that from a place of pain […]