Issues/Policy

I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Rolling blackouts do not begin to explain […]

The more I watch Cardoso and Edun struggle to come to grips with the abnormal situation, the more I am convinced they are not the right men for this season. First, I personally give them […]

Following the biting hunger occasioned by the prevailing hardship in the country, concerned Nigerians have called on the federal government to swallow its pride and reverse some of its economic policies. The advice is coming […]

Despite security challenges, the education sector plans in six north-west Nigerian states led to a significant increase in girls’ enrollment in secondary schools and a reduction in the percentage of girls married before the age […]

Earlier this week, Nigeria’s President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Bola Tinubu, walked another bold path that his predecessors rarely trod. With bold and audacious strut, Mr President commanded that the comatose OROSANYE REPORT […]

As I reflect on the current state of Nigeria, I am amazed by the paradoxical economy that seems to defy logic and reason: How Nigeria, a country blessed with abundant natural resources and potential for […]

As a stockbroker, you aim for the equilibrium price when making your deals. The equilibrium price is the point where demand and supply meet, and at that point, you finalise the transaction. Now, the equilibrium […]

I begin by pleading an obsessive problem – media language. As one who is routinely traumatised by encountering his own words reworked into imagined equivalents, duly enhanced and augmented even with the best and honest […]

Without concluding the probe of suspended minister Betta Edu and publicising its findings, lessons learned, and corrective actions taken, the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, announced the expansion of the conditional cash program to 12 […]

What is common in all the narratives is that people become desperate when they could not feed themselves. Food prices trigger political instability, as seen in the Russian and French Revolutions, the Great Depression and […]

The preponderance of opinions thereafter is: If GYB had so much to show, why did he concentrate on politics at both national and state levels, to the detriment of his legacy of accomplishments? Why were […]

AT LAST, the Geometric Power Group, alias the Aba Integrated Power Plant, AIPP, was formally switched into life on Monday, February 26, 2024 at Osisioma, a suburb of the Aba urban agglomeration. The commissioning was […]

A terrible time has fallen on Nigeria. There is no hiding it. Hunger is not just rampant; it is now an epidemic. There is a food crisis, and it is inevitably leading towards massive national […]

So at plenary in the senate last week, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, rushed naked out of the bathtub. He raised his hand up. In the presidency’s search for scapegoat, Akpabio suddenly became Archimedes. Last week, […]

Officials of the present administration do not seem to have any other platitude to offer Nigerians than appeal to them to just “endure.” When they mount any available pulpit to comment on the ongoing economic […]

Dear aspiring creative writer, how are you doing? Welcome to this week’s article on creative writing tips. Last week, among other things, we examined how to read slowly with the intention of identifying how the […]

RECENTLY, faced with escalating violence across Nigeria, the president, Bola Tinubu, reportedly agreed with state governors to establish state police. The news excited those calling for state police in Nigeria. But the agitation for state […]

Perhaps, the greatest tragedy that has befallen Nigeria is the fact that we have in power, predominantly men and women without character and honour; people whose positions on critical national issues are determined by self-interest […]

If the situation were not as serious as we have it at the moment, one would have been content to sit back to enjoy the self-serving remonstrations of an elite class for whom everything begins […]

First, Gani Adams’ so-called letter to South West governors, for a mandate to “flush out” Fulani kidnappers in the region, was met with a yawn it eminently deserved. Atavistic fears — or resent — hardly […]