Issues/Policy

Let me tell you a short story: In the early 2000s, there used to be a lot of accidents in the Ojoo end of the Lagos-Ibadan-Oyo expressway. Virtually every weekend, accidents occurred in this particular […]

There is some truth in conforming with the norm. Many idiomatic expressions connote the conventional as the normal. Statements like, “Don’t be an oddball,” “If you can’t beat them join them” are clear indications of […]

It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since […]

To the above poser, politicians who are using falsified figures to milk Nigeria will answer in the affirmative. But the contrary is the case if authentic census figures could be obtained. Nigeria population is not […]

There is an urgent need for Africa to develop new forms of resilience. In a world in which multilateralism is sorely tested, Africa must stop expecting solutions from others. Africa should no longer be satisfied […]

How did we, within a space of about thirty or so years, degenerate from a people of high moral values to that of unimaginable moral decadence? Who would have imagined that a woman in the […]

…The praise for Africa may be premature. It is not justified by the attitude of many of the leaders and the behaviour of the people. Could the real story in Africa be – that not […]

The Nigerian government may have deliberately ignored the violation of its lockdown order by the Dangote Group in Lagos at the site of what the latter plans to be Africa’s biggest oil refinery. This is […]

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has condemned the arbitrary arrest and unjust detention of a journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi, also known as Oba Akewi on the orders of the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai […]

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire over the last few days. Condemnation in the British mass and social media spaces have been far ranging, including from Bishops of the Church of […]

The COVID-19 pandemic that is currently ravaging the entire global landscape in 2020 provides a unique opportunity to evaluate our common humanity. The virus that has hit the cosmos like a raging tsunami is a […]

In the 1980s—during my doctoral studies —there was a theory of peace and international relations that gained traction among some scholars in the discipline. It was paradoxically called the anarchist theory. In its formal conception, […]

Economic Statecraft by Obadiah Mailafia obmailafia@gmail.com In terms of financial wizardry and sheer genius in economic statecraft, the only master I bow to is the legendary sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. I am no cultist and […]

Eze Onyekpere (censoj@gmail.com; 08127235995) The recent attempt by the House of Representatives to enact a law for the regulation and management of infectious diseases, epidemics, pandemics and health emergencies has been met with stiff opposition […]

Tunde Odesola (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) It’s the peak of perfidy. A whore is missing, a drunk goes in search of her; the degenerate seeks the reprobate. This is how best I can translate the following Yoruba proverb […]

The Buhari administration did not prime itself for leadership but for power. The regime has titillated more attention from controversies stoked by internecine scrimmages than from any milestone project. It has been five years of […]

“Water, e don get enemy!” I am afraid that as I commit myself to putting down some thoughts on what is arguably the biggest weapon mankind is relying upon in its preventive onslaught against an […]

Have you heard any of these statements before? They did not even give me any medication yet they said I had COVID-19. What they treated me for was malaria. Patients at isolation centres in Nigeria […]

Health care interventions and efforts to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria and indeed Africa, might crumble if the United States President, Donald Trump, withdraws funds from the World Health Organisation (WHO). This is […]