Issues/Policy

Dr Ama Onyerinma, Founder & Executive Director, Live Abundantly!®: Dear Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, It was announced that the Federal Government of Nigeria through a circular dated June 10, 2020, with reference number BW/20/CIR.LET/III/2020 intends to […]

Politics, globally, is an interesting game. It can make or break. There are those who have been very lucky in the game, just as there are many have suffered irreversible losses as a result of […]

azonwuka@yahoo.com 0809-8727-263 (sms only) It was somewhat surprising to me that last Friday was the 27th anniversary of June 12, 1993 presidential election. It seemed like only yesterday when that election took place and created […]

drtayooke@gmail.com For those interested in financial crime proceedings in this country, and I guess many of you are, it is such a relief when one sees news headlines highlighting how much properties the Economic and […]

Senate President Ahmad Lawan says the country is losing $29 billion annually because of a lack of stable power supply. The claim, which Lawan ascribed to unknown “authorities”, has not been confirmed by TheCable. Speaking […]

The last several weeks have been witnessing some strange, and, in fact, unprecedented situations in the southern part of Nigeria especially in the so-called Southeast and South South geopolitical zones. In spite of the rigidly […]

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma’s assertion that he will surpass the erstwhile Governor Sam Mbakwe of Imo State is a tall order that requires undivided commitment and devotion to realise. A reference to Mbakwe rings […]

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has lamented over the high rate of insecurity in the north, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of failing to tackle the situation. In a statement on Sunday, Ango Abdullahi, convener of […]

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, has described the Northern Elders Forum led by Ango Abdullahi as “a mere irritant”. Reacting to the group’s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising insecurity in the north, Adesina […]

We can proudly say that we of the Youth Democratic Front (YDF) and our broader youth coalition Congress of Progress Youth (COPY) were at the forefront of the struggle to revalidate the annulled June 12 […]

A colleague of mine asked on Facebook if rape is an African problem. The question generated an interesting discussion characteristic of social media ‘intellectuals’. Expectedly, many of the discussants only directed their indignation at the […]

Going by observation of some endemic brutal cities, Minneapolis does not seem to be one. Hence, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is quite abnormal. I have been to Minneapolis three times; in between […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has also given rise to a pandemic of fear, which could even do more damage than the viral pandemic itself. This article draws attention to what neuroscience has now found to be […]

The Nigerian national constitution gives ‘dictatorial’ powers to not only the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic but generously to the executive Governors of the 36 states that make up […]

Damilare Ojo, a lawyer who recovered from COVID-19 after receiving treatment in Abuja, has recounted his experience while in the isolation centre at the nation’s capital. In an article sent to TheCable on Sunday, Ojo, […]

One of the many contraptions that have defied evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of politics. In fact, there is a more transparent and disciplined political […]

2019 saw the release of Living in Bondage: Breaking Free. Ramsey Nouah’s directorial debut, it is the sequel to the 1992 movie Living in Bondage directed by Chris Rapu. The first Living in Bondage produced […]

A Twitter war broke out on Saturday between some users from South Africa and Nigeria after the former claimed that the latter was responsible for “majority of crimes committed in their country, including prostitution and […]

These days, Nigerian homes have no numbers. You have to go to Google Map to learn how to get to your place. So, there is no way to let you know where this happy family […]

I was going to ask questions about the safety of the democracy we celebrated last week (Friday, June 12) when it occurred to me that we should ask the first question, which I asked on […]