Issues/Policy

The story of U.S. leadership in the global battle against Covid-19 is a story of days, months, and decades. Every day, new U.S. technical and material assistance arrives in hospitals and labs around the world. […]

Reports of angry and hungry youths invading parts of Lagos demanding money for food amid the coronavirus (covid-19) lockdown in the state is unsettling. The development has thrown up another potentially dangerous challenge that requires […]

Mr. Oluwole Kehinde is the editor of Nigerian Weekly Law Report (NWLR). In this interview with YETUNDE AYOBAMI OJO, he spoke on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lagos state infectious disease (emergency prevention) regulations […]

The fear of the unknown is looming large all over the world because coronavirus is trending as front page news for the wrong reasons. People are dying every day due to infections from COVID-19 but […]

So it was that we, poets, journalists and writers who take ourselves more seriously than the rest of the country takes us, gathered in the serenity of an auditorium at the University of Lagos, to […]

Vivid account of an experience, following encounters at a police station and their impact on the poor, is what this article is all about; it is never intended for police bashing. Even the jubilation of […]

Vindication couldn’t be any starker than it has been for the Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, in the last 48 hours. In that period, he has demonstrated through his actions the importance of standing resolutely […]

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has defended his action in arresting two pilots of Caverton Helicopters and 10 passengers, saying the company had frequently violated his executive order on the Coronavirus lockdown by previously flying […]

The fear of the emergence of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic is the beginning of wisdom. The emergence of the pandemic in Nigeria on February 20, 2020, sent jitters down the spines of the entire citizenry. […]

The incident of COVID-19 in Oyo State, one of the states most ravaged by the rampaging novel virus, and the apparent inadequacy of funds at the state’s disposal, worsened by what seems like a dramatic […]

Onoshe Nwabuikwu sms: 08099400229 airtimeplus98@gmail.com The relationship between celebrities and the people oscillates between love and hate and at different periods, the scale could tilt towards one side or the other. This means that one […]

Obviously, Nigerian political landscape has not gotten to Eldorado but somethings have moved away from where we started 1999. If one thing at all, the political consciousness of the electorates has increased. It is no […]

The story of U.S. leadership in the global battle against Covid-19 is a story of days, months, and decades. Every day, new U.S. technical and material assistance arrives in hospitals and labs around the world. […]

In case you are just tuning in, let me keep you up to speed. They say fifth generation of wireless communication technology, known as 5G, was launched in China in November 2019 to weaken our […]

Two different videos but with the same message went viral last week. The first was that of youths playing football with bread. The second was people tearing bags of gari (cassava flakes) and dumping the […]

“There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully you will hear”….Bob Marley. The entire social media went agog over the weekend when Funke ‘Jenifa” Akindele’s husband posted a video of his […]

The amount of information on social media, are usually much, and where one is not careful, he can be drowned in the pool of fake news and misinformation that swim across cyberspace. Man’s quest to […]

I have just read a situation report on “how people in Kano are responding to government directives against COVID-19” released by the Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, Kano, April 7. Before I go […]

The standoff between Gov Nyesom Wike of the Rivers State and the federal government over the management of Nigeria’s airspace has further exposed the timidity of the Buhari administration in dealing with some state governors. […]