Issues/Policy

he meeting of the National Council of State is long overdue. The Council met last on January 22nd last year and discussed many issues especially the minimum wage. Although the Council has no executive power […]

Many continued hoping that the epidemic would soon die out and they and their families be spared. Thus they felt under no obligation to make any change in their habits, as yet. Plague was for […]

Continued from yesterday The confounding challenge COVID -19 poses to human ingenuity necessitates that, even as the rest of the world searches for a cure in their different ways, Africa must muster the confidence to […]

The undeniably global nature of the COVID-19 crisis will once again substantially confirm that crises are the real driving force for change. During and after the crisis humankind is often confronted with the urgent need […]

Keeping things confidential or secret is dangerous. It is a health issue. It should go immediately. it is about lives – Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director General of the World Health Organisation) The World Health […]

Many argue that the preamble to Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, “We, the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria: Having firmly and solemnly resolved… Do hereby make and give to ourselves the following Constitution,” is a […]

I hope that what we all get out of this isn’t just a time spent on our various social platforms – that is another form of isolation in itself – but, a sense of how […]

Chima Ariel Onoka “…hunger will kill us before the virus does” In an earlier article on March 23, 2020, I made the case that Nigeria needed to act urgently and deliberately on an inescapable and […]

Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide was born in 1930 to an influential family in Ibadan, Oyo State. He attended Oduduwa College in Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One. Like most privileged members of […]

In the beginning, many did not really care about it. They waved it away as a Chinese problem. But somehow, it has become a global concern and everyone is now in its awe. That, indeed, […]

Coronavirus confronts Nigeria with basic Economics and Sociology 101 lessons, writes REUBEN ABATI. Nigeria may well end up not as one of Ruchir Sharma’s BreakOut Nations (Norton and Company, 2012) but as a Breakdown Nation. […]

Nigeria and Nigerians sometimes can make you lose confidence in your ability to logically reason and make wise inference based on factual premise presented before you, or to put it bluntly, question your sanity! It […]

In the beginning, many did not really care about it. They waved it away as a Chinese problem. But somehow, it has become a global concern and everyone is now in its awe. That, indeed, […]

Steve Biko (1946-77) (of course you remember him), warned many years ago that “Black man, you are on your own” (Omuabor, 1994). This was the slogan he coined for the South Africa Students Organization that […]

Richard Osuolale Abimbola Akinjide died a few days ago at the age of 88 years, much-loathed, much liked. I have no scale with which to measure the specific tonnage of the loathing and the liking […]

Each time I hear that Nigeria earns over 90 per cent of her revenue from crude oil, I baffle in utter amazement and question how this country would survive. The stark reality is everywhere that […]

With over 537,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and about 24,000 record deaths, the Coronavirus pandemic is certainly the biggest disaster of scale and depth we will witness in this lifetime. Amidst growing concerns, experts have […]

There is an urgent need for public officers to be aware of the necessity of managing their reputations positively by tracking and understanding the reasons behind the public misconception of their roles and activities in […]

H.E Abdullahi Umar Ganduje Governor of Kano State Governor’s Office, Kano Kano State, Nigeria Your Excellency, Open Letter On Kano State’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response I am constrained to write this letter to you out of […]