Issues/Policy

At long last, the state governors have bestirred themselves. They appear to have thrown off the embroidered Baban Riga of their collective lethargic response to the coronavirus. I thought Rip Van Winkle was about to […]

Pangolin is a scaly ant eating creature. It is lizard-like; but without agility of lizard. Also, if one wants to insult crocodile, comparison can be made. However, it has neither the courage of crocodile nor […]

Nigeria is an impoverished country. In fact, the country has never been rich – in the economic sense of the word. The assumptions of wealth have always been hyphenated to the abundance of crude oil […]

Unfortunately, the act of remembrance, in itself, is somehow beyond our choice, because it is not in our gift to remember ourselves. It is rather foisted on or withdrawn from us by others, whether we […]

Overall, while progress has been made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, the country needs to prepare for the inevitable flooding of the citizens into the streets now, not at the end of […]

Mallam Abba Kyari was neither the villain who was believed by many to be Nigeria’s biggest problem in the last five years nor was he that patriot his close family, friends and associates are trying […]

The death of Mallam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to the President, has brought home to us the grim reality of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating possibilities. Kyari was President Muhammadu Buhari alter-ego. […]

The reaction of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the allegations of fraud levelled at it by some Niger Delta groups in the last few weeks is the […]

By means of the arresting appeal of the New World Order conspiracy theory, the evil one seeks to entrap the world. Many pseudo prophets and demagogues have taken over the rostrum of the information superhighways […]

Assessing a government or any official of government in a time like this may really be an herculean task, but at that risk, I hereby offer myself, as a community leader to assess the present […]

As the world battles the deadly COVID-19 virus, countries across sub-Saharan Africa have taken a number of measures aimed at stopping the spread of the virus in their territories. However, while efforts to address the […]

Twenty-second of April each year is marked as International Mother Earth Day (IMED). Unfortunately in much of the world the day will go unnoticed. Deep earth awareness is still lacking in many quarters. Human existence […]

If you are a state governor in Nigeria and you are not already working round the clock, night and day, you are playing with fire. Red-hot, napalm fire! Here is your reality. Bonny Light (Nigeria’s […]

To mitigate the stony resolve of Shylock, the shylock (what else?) of William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” to extract a pound of flesh from debtor Antonio, pretend lawyer Portia, pleaded earnestly, “The quality of mercy […]

No doubt, COVID-19 is a global problem that will have a global effect. African countries may, however, end up being disproportionately affected by the deadly virus given that most of these countries entered the pandemic […]

The above question was posed to me on Monday, April 20, 2020 by the anchor of ‘Politics Today’ on Channels Television, Seun Okinbaloye. Well, I answered in the negative and I would advance my reasons […]

These are the days of great unravelling. A new empire is rising as the old fumbles its way down a dark, uncertain alley. Elements of the much-celebrated global village have become separated by overnight executive […]

I do not gloat when someone dies, even if they were the most reprehensible in my world during their lifetime. I remember clearly the stunned face of the Nigerian compatriotic who broke the news of […]

Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the Pluto Press, London, released a book with the title: “The Lugano Report” and subtitle, “On preserving capitalism […]

The beauty of due diligence is that it can be employed from a distance and without the slightest contact with the target organisation. So, it is relevant to bring it to the attention of management […]