Issues/Policy

It is indeed inscrutable that government’s projection to end gas flaring over the years has failed due to several factors. But huge revenue expected from penalty payments by the oil and gas companies appears to […]

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us (Wole Soyinka) The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food […]

‘They must be stopped! This cannot be!’ Shorty’s bearded face is a mix of fear and rage. ‘We must stop them!’ ‘Stop who? Stop what? ‘Lanky queries, wincing underneath the heavy decibels pumping from the […]

In 2015, one Yinusa Dahiru a.k.a Yinusa Yellow made the news headlines when he abducted one Ese Oruru from her mother’s shop in Yenogoa and made off with her to his base in Kano. Ese’s […]

Whether in the media or on the streets, the preponderance of public opinion is that Kwara State is now led by a man with eyes fixed on changing the narratives of the north central state […]

Federal and state governments need to be more serious in enforcing the regulations aimed at chaining COVID-19. It is a matter of life and death. No nation can joke with that. The co-ordination between the […]

Specifically, the mission of IPPIS is to pay FGN employees on-time and accurately within statutory and contractual obligations IPPIS Vision is to have a centralised payroll system that meet the needs of FGN employees and […]

Let me state urgently that I did not mean to dwell on this subject today. And now that I am dwelling on it, I won’t beat about the bush. But let me persuade myself to […]

BY DATAPHYTE A recent DATAPHYTE occasional paper revealed that budgetary provision to some of the top five most critical sector’s of Nigeria’s economy accounted for only 17 percent of the initial 2020 budget. While these five key […]

To say that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft crusade is bearing fruits and closing all apertures of corruption and sending chill shivers into the spine of corrupt elements across the country is an under-statement. It is […]

Dede Kadiri Experts often douse the post COVID-19 enthusiasm by saying that the world will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are at the end of a current era and beginning the […]

Ayo Olukotun(Ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com) Emergencies bear resemblances to academic examinations in that they test the quality of acquired knowledge, as well as the preparation or lack of it, of the examinee. Unlike exams, which are scheduled, however, […]

’Tunji Ajibade (tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657) Whenever he appears on TV, the head of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has the air of a man committed to a cause. He shows he’s determined to pass onto others […]

Fola Ojo(willieojo@yahoo.com) His arsenal of prettily-padded credentials is snazzy and intentionally intimidating. He is a stellar graduate of the prestigious London School of Economics. Master’s and doctorate degrees in Political Science and International Relations from […]

Next week, the Muhammadu Buhari administration would be exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of four years. In five years, President […]

These, indeed, are unusual times for mankind. Like never before, natural disasters, poverty, hunger, international conflicts and many other strange occurrences are helplessly starring man in the face. There is, perhaps, no other time in […]

COVID-19 pandemic may not kill as many as 50 million people claimed by the Spanish flu a century ago, but it is set on damaging the world economy by as much as a harrowing $82 […]

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon “On April 29, 1945, Italians found the executed dictator Benito Mussolini strung up like a prosciutto in […]