Issues/Policy

There are many things that make you sad, even angry, about Nigeria. Recently, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) asked SMEs to pay N120,000 each for “compulsory fumigation” before they would be allowed to re-open […]

The new findings that point to earlier sources of COVID-19 may have rendered the court cases against China a nullity and those who hope to benefit from them may have become a distinct group of […]

…it is undisputable that Governor Ugwuanyi has performed creditably and has remained committed to his solemn mandate to continue to reward ‘Ndi Enugu’ with peace and good governance and build Enugu State of the founding […]

This is the weekend of May 30, the date of the official declaration of the former Republic of Biafra: the Land of the Rising Sun! Biafra holds a duality of meaning to the Igbo and […]

While waiting for the police to formally charge or release Mubarak Bala, it is important to critically examine a key proposition in the complaint filed against him at the Kano State Police Command. This is […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says close to one billion dollars was stolen from Nigeria “under a previous, undemocratic junta in the 1990s”. In an article published in Newsweek, a US based publication, the Nigerian leader thanked […]

’Tunji Ajibade; tunjioa@yahoo.com; 08036683657 The United States’ former president Barack Obama made an observation the other day. His reminds me of the known fact that ideas respect no borders. What one person thinks here, another […]

Chukwuneta Oby(tingles@punchng.com) The years 2020 seemed to arrive with a particular ‘firebrand-resolution’ from people. There’s even a particular ‘code’ that is being touted as the ‘way to go’ of the year. I came across it […]

It sounds like déjà vu. But as the plot thickens, it is following the same story line. The Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank, AfDB, has finally bowed to pressure by the United States […]

One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ‘’promoting and supporting’’ democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of dollars ‘’promoting and supporting’’ its own genre of democracy […]

Joel Nwokeoma Everything about it was shrouded in secrecy and seeming insincerity. At other times, it was grand equivocation, as events began to unravel. It is the story of the celebrated arrival of the Chinese […]

Fola Ojo(willieojo@yahoo.com) If you are reading this treatise today, at one time in this journey of life, you must have been stabbed in the back by those you needed most; lied to by those you […]

Ayo Olukotun(Ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com) Nothing brought into focus the people-centred dimension of a vibrant democracy more than the rage and spontaneity of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, United States. A couple of days back, George Floyd, a […]

Ever before the first ballot in the 2019 presidential elections was cast, some members of Nigeria’s leadership elite, across the political spectrum, were already signaling their intention to run for the presidency in 2023. It […]

Continued from yesterdayHe had come to visit my father and had just left the house when he turned back to see my father. Apparently, he had heard the dissenting opinion of Justice Kayode Esho and […]

Today, Friday, May 29, 2020 transports our country and GMB’s presidency back to this same day in 2015. It was also a Friday, a Friday which ushered GMB, PMB, as I then sentimentally styled him, […]

Is Nigeria better off than it was five years ago? As President Muhammadu Buhari marks the end of his first year of the second term and fifth year in office today, Nigerians who have invested […]

The Federal Government yesterday changed the earlier plan of drastically slashing the 2020 passed budget of N10.594trillion to N9trillion by reducing it with just about N85billion through a new proposal of N10.509trillion . Consequently the […]

The African past is a competent prologue in this agenda — especially, if we make it ours — to unite under one umbrella as one indivisible force of change for the progress of the African […]