Issues/Policy

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the figure of COVID-19 cases in Africa is above 168, 464. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo gave the update on its official twitter handle […]

A suit has been filed against Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, over allegations of certificate forgery. In the suit filed before a federal high court in Abuja, Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and Amedu […]

While the COVID-19 lockdown was declared in Lagos, residents kept vigil around border communities as insecurity became an issue to battle with. With the reports of thieves breaking into homes, there were bonfires in some […]

Whether Donald Trump and the GOP likes it or not, a movement of rage has begun in America. The movement has been largely symptomatic of the latent rage of Black-Americans and the oppressed people of […]

After America burned for a week, Donald Trump threatened to declare martial law from the steps of an historic church. Leave aside for a moment that the clergy and bishop of said church was horrified, […]

For starters, I am happy everyone is finally talking about you. It doesn’t completely heal my heart, but it gives me that much-needed reprieve to see you become the centre of everyone’s attention. Wait, you […]

– Continued from yesterday The great Foundation established by this great couple has touched and restored millions, if not billions, of lives around the world, especially in the ever disease-inflicted African continent. But the COVID-19 […]

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 […]