Issues/Policy

On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 […]

You have possibly watched the 1998 action-thriller film with the above title, starring Will Smith. It was the box office hit story about a group of people plotting to kill an American Congressman, and the […]

Suddenly, so suddenly, the world has changed, our lifestyles are re ordered, and things may never be the same again. Suddenly, so suddenly our political, economic and social realities have become disrupted. Never in recent […]

Amotekun: The six states of the Yoruba ethnic group of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recently demanded from Nigeria Government more power to control security in their region and despite the Nigeria Police Force, the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the implementation of the Steve Oransaye report that recommended a trimming of the Federal bureaucracy. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed gave the indication in an interview […]

These are certainly not the best of times for anyone with the title of leader anywhere in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges that test the capacity of the most knowledgeable in the […]

On Sunday afternoon, as I was about entering the car to drive off to work, my gate man, a likeable and well-mannered young man named James, walked up to me with some unsteady steps. It […]

Ordinarily, one should ignore the director of Muslim Rights Congress, Prof Ishaq Akintola. His predilection for inciting controversy via religious conspiracy, mostly for its own sake, makes him a public nuisance. However, we have been […]

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 […]