Issues/Policy

The circular from the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, to taxpayers over payment of taxes, is one that has left me heavily puzzled. The circular, which gave an update on […]

The reported disappearance of Miss Bianca Ada Chidi, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, on her way back to Lagos from Ife is heart-rending and lamentable. The family is shocked as to whereabouts of […]

Tayo Oke drtayooke@gmail.com The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Emeka Nwajiuba, made it emphatically clear on April 28, in Abuja, that: “There is no date yet for schools to resume”. He stuck to that […]

Last week, with Nigeria recording about 2,000 cases of COVID-19, the Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, lamented that they might start treating COVID-19 patients at home because of shortage of […]

What is poverty? Pause. Think really well about the question. Take a hard long look at Nigeria and repeat the question to yourself; what is poverty? Do you know poverty? Have you seen poverty? Does […]

If you are a non-indigene of Nnewi but want to be loved exceedingly in Nnewi, buy a parcel of land and start a company that employs people. The moment you do that, the message you […]

This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Coronavirus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since […]

Since the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic on 11 March, the mantra has been to tell us to maintain some “social distancing” to avoid being infected. On 20 March, WHO dropped […]

The decision to ease the lockdown is obviously more political than realistic and scientific. The economic reasons adduced for proposed easing of the lockdown are purely political excuses that do not explain much. It should […]

If history teaches anything, it is that in our present conditions, the toll from a second wave of infections will hurt more than that from the first one. Votaries of even a religion as secular […]

It seems the Lagos State government is gradually passing its own test. Other state governments must rise to the occasion. To Governor Ganduje: Duty calls. Thou shall not live by dollars alone. The governor of […]

As our prime minister, Boris Johnson, said at the conference today: “The race to discover the vaccine to defeat this virus is not a competition between countries, but the most urgent shared endeavour of our […]

On 17th April, 2020, my world came crashing down and my heart shattered into a billion pieces. Upon receiving the news of my father’s passing, I immediately felt the most excruciating pain – a pain […]

Nigeria is ailing and it is difficult not to be worried. The global economic shock occasioned by COVID-19 has finally dealt a huge blow on Nigeria’s economy that has before now been on life support. […]

No government or business can function optimally without organising capacity. Every structure that delivers efficiency comes with it a high level organizing capacity. Government will consistently fail as long as its citizens are propelled to […]

At the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the prospect of hajj 2020 taking place was so slim that any analysis about how coronavirus may shape hajj 2020 will seems like a vague argumentative essay. The situation […]

Established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1993, May 3 is dedicated and celebrated as World Press Freedom Day. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the […]

Ralph Fiennes is one of the most fearless individuals on Earth, having embarked on incredibly dangerous expeditions. But then, even Fiennes has his fears. He is afraid of heights. This actually brings to reality the […]

Hello, Excellency!” “Hello Mr. President. It is always so good to hear that: Excellency. It is wonderful. People like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, they never call me that.” “It is not a problem, Excellency. […]