Issues/Policy

The Nigeria High Commission in London is still publicising the Seven Point Agenda of President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adu’a, ten years after his demise. The list of honourable ministers is that of 2011. Does it […]

It is almost 30 years since this incident. I have not had the opportunity of meeting Soyinka since then. But whenever I do have the chance to meet him again, I would put the question […]

Tunji Ajibade; tunjioa@yahoo.com; Very few comedy programmes on our TV stations retain my attention for any length of time. Lack of depth in creativity is one reason. The comedy series, Zone 222, gets my attention […]

With daring derision and haranguing humiliation, Muhammadu Sanusi II was heave-hoed from the stool of his forefathers as the Emir of Kano. Immediately after the deracination, his voice careened into hibernation. In high and low […]

To realise our collective dream of a better United Nations; of a more stable, peaceful, pandemic-free and prosperous world; and ultimately of a desirable future, we will not only be reaffirming our commitment to multilateralism […]

IT is a grand irony that those responsible for the ongoing travails of the Acting National Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, have sought to justify his current investigations […]

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says the pay-as-you-go billing model cannot be used for pay television (pay TV). Babatunde Irukera, the DG of FCCPC, told Channels TV on Friday that many pay […]

Suffice to begin by stating the facts that put Prof Omole and members of his administration’s inner caucus on the spot in the whole cruel murderous saga with this clincher as the first shocker: The […]

‘Governance is ruled by greed; and corruption has become its tool, our ‘leaders’, its prophets! -Gbenro Olajuyigbe in ‘Why Terror & Grief Grow’ Sixty years after independence and over 50 years after it struck oil […]

“Steve Manson’s magazine dealt in corruption: he attacked the rich, the powerful and the famous – and he made enemies. In a job like that, you couldn’t afford to have dirty secrets of your own. […]

Whatever he is up to this time, the world can almost be sure that this president won’t go away, quietly. “Loser Trump” are strange words in Trumpistan… Vigilance and citizen firewall are key. This president […]

Judging by the garrulous grandstanding of Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, the recently sacked national chairman of the APC many are easily convinced that he was the problem at root of the crisis rocking the ruling party. […]

Two reports published shortly before the COVID-19 lockdown paint a stark picture of NNPC, the Nigerian state hydrocarbon company, as a sub-optimally governed and remarkably inefficient commercial enterprise that is also neither transparent nor accountable. […]

These are horrible times. These are horrid times. These are horrific times. And in these horrible, horrid and horrific times in our land nothing is delicately delicate in any positive usage or application of the […]

The table turned, as it often does in a world programmed to constantly remind us that the only certainty in the life of man and nations is uncertainty. You should find nothing unusual in Ibrahim […]

After several years of stomaching insolence from operatives of the executive, Nigeria’s long-suffering National Assembly last week finally mustered the courage to bite, as it sank its teeth into no less than Minister of State […]

…please let us not accord Magu the same shameless media trial, public conviction, lynching and execution of people, who were nothing but mere suspects (and thus presumed innocent), as he did with éclat and a […]

Nigeria as a developing country has come of age with the different successive government since 1960 (Both military and civilian government) and at the preliminary stage of Nigeria independence, we operated regional government, then a […]