Issues/Policy

And the other side of the question is also valid-COVID: where are we taking COVID-19? Whichever one of these two questions we answer first we will need to put our mind to rest and tell […]

This much we can say about the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.): He is an enigma. People who are taciturn are invariably enigmatic. Add to that a Chief of Staff who was just as […]

“If you see your brother standing by the road With a heavy load from the seeds he’s sowed And if you see your sister falling by the way Just stop and say, you’re going the […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing a lot of things—some long-held perceptions and myths, perhaps even ‘truths’ (about people and countries) are being put to the test. It’s safe to say some of these myths are […]

When an influential public figure dies, he ought to be laid to rest, and allowed to rest. The trouble, as Mallam Abba Kyari’s family must have found out in the past week, is that when […]

BY EMEKA OBI Earlier this week, I had a conversation with a friend of mine and I relayed to him that my attention is presently on a project I hope to tidy up before the […]

While I appreciate and congratulate Government and the NCDC for taking us this far, I think we should swallow our pride now and engage Ghana/South Africa on how to make our testing more efficient. That […]

Perhaps the biggest COVID-19 debate in Nigeria today is: should the lockdown be lifted? Residents of Lagos state and the federal capital territory (FCT) have been under a lockdown since March 30. The aim is […]

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 […]