Issues/Policy

Governments, civil society, law enforcement agents, the courts, and parents need to take the issue of rape very seriously today. This has become imperative because of the changing and increasingly disastrous dimensions rape has taken […]

It is no doubt that intra-party feuds have the potential to cause great upset. Whether these challenges may lead to sufficient fractures which can slowly snowball into electoral reverses is another matter. The simple point […]

By the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Seventy years have elapsed since the bursts of gunfire of war were heard on this land. […]

As headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic storm lambaste the world economy, the outlook for Nigeria appears more cloudy for the second half of the year. The next few months are critical for the country’s fragile […]

Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has revealed that Nigerian lawmakers were trying to influence, who to be employed in the temporary work scheme as he cleared the air on what led […]

My town Nnobi, the birthplace of Chinua Achebe, is a wonderful place – second to none when it comes to the number of professionals, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists. But for years, we have allowed one cabal […]

An obvious response to reduce unemployment in any country is to create more job opportunities. But such bold steps is no easy task for a government to accomplish especially with an economy such as Nigeria’s […]

Today, the voices of hunger, the voices of insecurity and the voices of COVID-19 have been almost drowned with the voices of rape. At least within the life period of this administration, no demonstration has […]

On Thursday, June 25, Chief Abiola Ajimobi, a former governor of Oyo state, one of Nigeria’s thirty-six states, died from COVID-19 complications. The actuality of COVID-19, whether natural or manipulated in origin, dawned on his […]

On February 6, 2020, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced the date for Edo and Ondo governorship elections. These are two off-cycle governorship elections to be held this year. Recall that seven out of 36 […]

When the late pop musician, Michael Jackson, sang the worrisome sentiment, “All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us,” nearly everyone thought he meant that, no matter their public posturing, white […]

In the piece, Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home.” The […]

When a couple of days ago I wrote that APC, unlike PDP, will soon resolve her issues, some didn’t believe. It will implode, it will soon disintegrate so said the so-called analysts. They never wished […]

When a unit of the police continues to violate rights with total impunity, it is necessary to ask if they are above the law. In a nation that is governed by laws, the government cannot […]

Will the Jagaban of Borgu ever learn? Unfortunately for him, he has taken a route without a plan B. The article reproduced here was written in 2015. It predicted the comeuppance of Bola Tinubu in […]

The Federal Government has just released its Economic Sustainability Plan. The plan is expected to be a stopgap measure for the next 12 months, to tidy Nigeria over the period of the pandemic, to when […]

Within days of each other, the Washington institutions – the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – have both warned that our economy is heading towards a massive recession. Both agree that the novel […]

Mallam Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, is a man whose appointment has been dogged by controversy from day one. It is not without reason for, while he has […]

The COVID-19 pandemic brings to the fore a rare opportunity for African nations to reawaken and reconsider national strategies. However, if we needed an emergency, we have it. It hinges on our future. It hinges […]