Issues/Policy

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. […]

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 It is rather foisted on or withdrawn from us by others, whether we […]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 […]