Issues/Policy

Good morning sir, I am an ardent listener to your show every weekday aside Monday as well as your Sunday program but let me first introduce myself. My name is Temowo Omotayo Theophilus and like […]

Sonala Olumhense Two days ago, Nigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari commenced his sixth year in office. He had spent the most disappointing five years in charge. But in a tweet three days earlier, presidential spokesman Femi […]

It’s understandable if you have not have been following the trending story involving Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister. It’s not like there hasn’t been enough drama with our own […]

We begin this tribute in honour of Prof. Charles Nyamiti, with the following obituary announcement of his demise. Originally written in Swahili, the obituary announcement was published at the website homepage of the Catholic University […]

Nothing in recent history has brought governments across the world to their knees as COVID-19 pandemic has done in a few months. The global health crisis has not only exposed the fragility of government institutions […]

We could argue until the end of this piece as to what should be the title of the piece. The argument is fun but this column and it’s writing are not about the argument. Something […]

Makarantu, whether Ilmi or Allo—as explained in Sulaiman, 2013, the makarantar Ilmi is the school of advanced learning which covers the whole range of Islamic literary, theological and legal education and according to Abdullahi Adamu(2013) […]

Hurricane Murtala Muhammed who ruled Nigeria from July 29, 1975 – February 13, 1976, can’t be easily forgotten for his exploits within barely six months in power. He was quite controversial, especially to public servants […]

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 […]