Issues/Policy

I woke up on the morning of May 30 only to realise that May 29 was the previous day. I had missed it. Don’t put it down to COVID-19-induced amnesia. May 29 slipped off my […]

This is not one of those window-dressing pieces that many are used to in this part of the world. It is my humble attempt to call forth some tucked in facets of the persona of […]

There is no dispute about the country and city where the deadly novel coronavirus had originated. The country is China and the city is Wuhan, double-hosting the powerful biological weapons’ laboratory of the Communist nation […]

Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria. There is the grinding poverty that robs citizens of dignity; pervasive insecurity, which has turned nearly everyone into jittery refugees in their own country and the […]

“With one million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus on biodiversity” – Joint statement by Ricardo Lozano, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia; Jochen Flasbarth, Secretary of […]

The untoward death of Vera “Uwa” Uwaila Omozuwa, cuts deeply. In recent times, there have been incidences of violence but the circumstances of her death make this one saddening and entirely enraging. According to reports, […]

Something is strikingly absurd in the petition brought against Mubarak Bala. That his said posts were forms of racist and xenophobic attack. Racist and xenophobic attack? Did the petitioners look up the meaning of these […]

On April 21, 2020, and for a couple of days thereafter, my article, “Re-introducing the Lugano Report”, appeared in the media and on discussion platforms. The content of the piece is what the title indicates: […]

The brutal killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black American, by a ferocious gang of four Minnesota State police officers, has set the United States of America on the boil. Floyd, a minority, by race, […]

It is a collision between political power and poetic power. The poet seeks to speak truth to power; and the politician seeks to silence the voice of truth. This is the picture, more than three […]

Like you, we also have questions: now that Nigeria is relaxing the lockdown, was it effective in the first place? Should the government have lifted the lockdowns? Have we flattened the curve? Is anything getting […]

The COVID-19 has continued its contagious stride across the world. Statistics of the dead and of the incapacitated are not declining. So far, about 374,000 people have died from the ubiquitous pestilence while 6.3 million […]

Apparently, the issues thrown up by the death of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff, would linger on in the public domain for a long time yet. As their flames appeared to […]

Like a bolt out of the blue, it came visiting and mankind was clearly not prepared for it and was brought to its knees. For eight weeks the world was literally brought to a standstill. […]

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019, there has been a spike of domestic and gender-based violence worldwide. Countries with higher GDPs such as Sweden or lower GDPs as Sudan, are not spared the raging havoc left […]

The gruesome rape and violence that led to the death of Uwavera Omozuwa, student of University of Benin, at a Redeemed Church Parish is an elevated act of horrible evil. The agony of her last […]

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s top legislative and political advisory body held its annual sessions between 21 and 27 May 2020. It was a key annual event where representatives of the 1.4 billion Chinese people […]

They were bombarded with obscenities as the six fierce-looking Chinese law enforcement officers held their cuffed hands, ignoring their pleas and dragging them to nowhere. This captures the travail presently confronting the many Nigerians living […]