Issues/Policy

Last week, conversations on the kind of man and the type of life lived by Malam Abba Kyari, late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari – especially in the last five years or so […]

Dear Professor Mahmood Yakubu, I hope you are staying safe, and keeping to the WHO and Government guidelines with respect to the prevention of the spread of the COVID-19? Please sir, I will be very […]

Millions of Nigerians hold a wrong perception about the relationship that existed between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the late Mallam Abba Kyari up to the extent that many still strongly believe that Mallam Kyari […]

The Coalition for Revolution (CORE), organisers of the #RevolutionNow Movement is embarking on a protest against the lockdown. In efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, President Muhammadu Buhari had locked down the federal capital […]

Iwonder why people are asking why all those speaking for Abba Kyari now didn’t speak for him when he was alive. The answer is right here, hiding in plain sight! My first piece on Abba […]

Prof Soludo’s corona thesis is quite detailed and remarkable, as usual. I couldn’t read to the end but I did go far enough to grab the juice of his argument. He says the western world […]

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) […]

Coronavirus is a law, yet lawless unto itself. As of yesterday it has claimed 183,424 lives worldwide and 28 Nigerians. One of those lives lost was Malam Abba Kyari’s, Chief of Staff to the President. […]

These are, indeed, tough and trying times for the entire world, as the deadly coronavirus pandemic fiercely rages on. Since the venomous virus broke out in China late last year, there is little or no […]

The death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has elicited a great deal of controversy, but the posterity demands that the history of our leaders bears the truth. Without […]

Governance in the sense of designing, implementing and following through policies in the context of a multi-stakeholder approach has never been our forte as a people. Our political landscape is littered with carcasses of abandoned […]

Continued from Thursday It is therefore very obvious from the above that the only Nigerian leaders that were not military dictators since the founding of ASUU in 1978 are Yar’Adua of the blessed memory and […]

The onset of the government’s lockdown order felt like a crisp opportunity for me to catch up on some chores I had sluggard off on. After the announcement, I immediately settled to some writing; wrapped […]

There was COVID-19 outbreak in China and that country arrested the first Chinese doctor to break the news. Accused of disseminating false information, the doctor eventually died. What Chinese authorities do to foreigners, especially Africans, […]

Nigeria must commit to paying $200 million settlement claims to Sunrise Power over the Mambilla power project by Friday, April 24, or face the consequences, the company’s lawyers have warned. TheCable reported on Wednesday that President […]

Data analytics and consulting company, GlobalData, says lower oil prices as a result of the Covid-19 crisis could reduce electric vehicle (EV) demand and impair European Union (EU) efforts to significantly reduce average new vehicle […]

Coronavirus is a law, yet lawless unto itself. As of yesterday, it has claimed 183,424 lives worldwide and 28 Nigerians. One of those lives lost was Malam Abba Kyari’s, Chief of Staff to the President. […]