Issues/Policy

Goodbyes are often painful. But they could be comforting in times of intense grief and grieving like this. Mabayoje, when we spoke for the last time on Friday, March 13, you never said ‘I’m coming’. […]

A former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has urged African leaders to rally round and support Akinwunmi Adesina, the embattled president of African Development Bank (AfDB). Mr Adesina is currently battling 16 allegations of impropriety and […]

By Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan) Older heads in the Enahoro clan know enough about political state pardons not to get excited by it. It is not a pension annuity, not a war decoration or a […]

What do you think the lesson of Coronavirus is? I find myself wondering these days if we’ve reached the end of the first chapter of human history. It’s not just the pandemic — climate change, […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is currently gearing up for another leadership election. The current President, Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, is already dealing with setbacks and a coup hell bent on removing him from office. This […]

I probably knew about Richard Akinjide, SAN, from the time I could recognize people’s faces. But I definitely knew him well vicariously. He was a contemporary of my father, Justice Bola Babalakin, at Oduduwa College, […]

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is a candid reminder that God is omnipotent and that He rules in the affairs of nations. The devastation of lives by the virus in many countries with patently […]

Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary when General Yakubu Gowon, (then a lanky lieutenant colonel), created the 12 states that replaced the original four regions of the Nigerian federation. Today we have 36 states. Only Lagos […]

In the 15 years, since I left office as the pioneer Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, I have restrained myself from joining in the numerous, and constant controversies that have followed the […]

I begin with a question. How have COVID-19 impacted women, our mothers and sisters? The answer is here provided albeit succinctly. Women have been at the receiving end of male-dominated societies for ages, except perhaps […]

The use of face masks by children is a very common sight in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent mandatory health requirement for public outings. Disturbingly though, there have been media reports on […]

Last Friday, May 22, 2020, news broke that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had signed Executive Order 10 granting financial autonomy to the 36 state Houses of Assembly and the judiciary. What a […]

Lekan Sote (lekansote@yahoo.com) The most public aspects of this King Babu are his absent-mindedness toward his responsibilities, and his fastidious attendance to details about things that affect his person, his family, political friends, and his […]

I am now convinced beyond all doubts, reasonable, unreasonable, unreasoned, reasoned, reasonless, name it, that something is wrong with us, Africans! Recently, there we were, vituperating about a video of two French physicians bantering about […]

As governments and activists across the world respond to the increase in gender-based violence during the COVID19 pandemic, Nigeria’s response raises questions about how well (lack of) data influences advocacy and policy. In an ideal […]

I have been meaning to write about Prof. Sanya Onabamiro (1913-1985), described as a Nigerian Copepodologist and Statesman in a 2013 article in the “Journal of Crustacean Biology” by David M. Damkaer on this enigmatic […]

azonwuka@yahoo.com0809-8727-263 (sms only) Phrasal verbs can be confusing. Many writers, including some Nigerian newspapers, do not know when to separate words like these or write them together. It is usually embarrassing to see a top […]

Tayo Oke (drtayooke@gmail.com) The announcement of Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the Chief of Staff to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a couple of weeks ago generated a lot of heated discussions in […]