Issues/Policy

“You don’t run after a snail. When you are ready (to make it a cuisine) you pick it up and put it in a bag” – Comrade Adams Oshiomhole –Cited in Festus Adedayo, Nigerian Tribune, […]

The despicable killing of George Floyd left me stunned, horrified, and then infuriated. I couldn’t believe someone could do that to another human being in broad daylight! I couldn’t believe that in spite of knowing […]

Whales and sharks are the biggest and some of the deadliest and fastest ocean predators. Here we have: THE GIANTS OF THE OCEANS. Whales are the only confirmed mammals in the ocean but sharks are […]

Although Rodney King was filmed being beaten by White police officers in 1991, before the advent of smartphones, it revealed the deep-seated maltreatment of Blacks in the hands of police. One can imagine the many […]

I strolled down the boulevard of the ruling party, APC, recently. I wish to report, with a feeling of sadness, that the boulevard constructed in 2014 with shovels and diggers from national politics in a […]

Going by the strategies recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for schools across the world to adapt before reopening for academic activities, one can conveniently say that Nigerian schools are unprepared. Recall that schools […]

Genetically Modified Organisms have raised concerns in our clime, the same way they have in other countries of the world – where a clear line is drawn between the pro and the anti-GMO citizens. Nonetheless, […]

Last week Wednesday, the police announced that they had arrested and detained the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Coalition of Northern Groups, Nastura Sharif, one of the masterminds of the protests against the spate […]

If you are a keen observer of political developments of Edo and (to some extent), Ondo states, you would have come to two or three painful realisations lately. The first is that politicians in Nigerians […]

One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism in the early post-Civil War years was the one built around the thesis that Marxism, our ideology, […]

If you’re thinking that the racial tensions in the USA that has sparked multiple demonstrations around the world does not concern you, then you are wrong. The Black people being chased, maltreated, disenfranchised, maligned, lynched […]

Many human beings are rightly condemning the asphyxiation of George Floyd to death over what must have been a painful and agonizing death as he shouted: “I can’t breathe” and called on his dead mum […]

Rape is a moral crime in every decent society. Raping any woman is morally repugnant and no reason can ever be adduced to atone for the crime. Rape ought to be treated seriously by the […]

Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode said President Muhammadu Buhari’s backing for Victor Giadom as the acting chairman of the All Progressives, does not bode well for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In a tweet on Wednesday, FFK […]

I’ve watched a 15 year-old breastfeeding a child of about 10 months. The girl was said to have been raped by her step-father, and her mother, out of shame and stigmatisation, dumped her daughter and […]

The story of this pandemic is far from over, and Africa’s leaders and citizens must continue to chart a course that protect lives as it rebuilds economies. Still, the continent’s performance so far is an […]

Continued from Tuesday Given the intransigent stance of the “Make America great again’’ crooner and current president of the United States, Donald Trump, who invoked the callous ‘‘Law and Order’’ caudillos, the stage appears to […]

jideojong@yahoo.com 08077787701 On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, Nigeria’s war against corruption claimed an eminent personality. Nigerian Army’s general court-martial found Hakeem Oladapo Otiki, a Major General due to retire this year, guilty of corruption charges […]