Issues/Policy

The Corona pandemic is a phenomenon in a global village which is very different from that when the concept of surrealism was coined a hundred years ago. Artists then saw the goal of surrealism as […]

It is increasingly embarrassing that leaders at all levels in Nigeria are not yet prepared to face the implications of the COVID-19 that has taken the world by storm. It is also becoming scandalous by […]

The Coronavirus for every reason made available to time has made history. That human history has never been this troubled by the widespread and panic-inducing effect of an epidemic of this magnitude. The world will […]

Troubling videos showing policemen, military officers and other agents of the state torturing, flogging, harassing and humiliating citizens for straying outside despite the current lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja and general movement restrictions across […]

Our attention is drawn to a circular by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, commanding soldiers to embark on an action he tagged ‘Op-Second Eleven’ and which is organised for the “enforcement of government […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given reasons why it decided to suspend the implementation of a new electricity tariff regime in the country earlier scheduled for April 1. In its latest Order No: […]

The world is gradually turning into a nightmare of some sort. Recent happenings tend to suggest that the earth may soon be winding to a close. All of a sudden, the earth throws up a […]

The Lord has spoken. The fire is lit on the mountain and everyone is on the run. Those who bestrode the world yesterday like colossi are themselves seeking hiding places. Peter Tosh, one of the […]

In the history of any nation, there are special moments that the citizens hold dear in their mind. For much of Nigeria’s 59 years of independence, several historical events and occasions continue to shape and […]

I remember falling asleep at a Tuesday evening church service as a 9 year old child. I had a tambourine on my lap and as I fell to the floor, it reverberated thunderously throughout the […]

With the public outrage following the flouting of government’s directives by some religious institutions last weekend over the number of worshippers that could attend mosques and churches for prayers in the face of the deadly […]

drtayooke@gmail.com Coronavirus infection (aka COVID-19), is spreading worldwide like bushfire. Like the fallout from a nuclear explosion, no one, no country, is immune from its deadly effect. It is a pandemic on the much heralded […]

After two months living with draconian curbs on daily life, residents were allowed to leave Hubei from midnight Tuesday March 24 if healthy, while Wuhan city, the initial epicentre of the outbreak of the novel […]

In the past two weeks, the Coronavirus pandemic has produced many paradoxes to give Nigerians a life time of anxiety about the future of their country. A virus that arrived in Nigeria with an evil […]

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos and national leader of the All Progressives Congress will be 68 tomorrow. He is not celebrating and has cancelled a colloquium usually held in his honour, because of […]

“When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.” – Piers Anthony It is […]

If there’s an awareness that these stressful and uncertain times should bring upon us, it’s the NOTHINGNESS OF IT ALL. Imagine having the wherewithal to ‘go hide’ in the best places of the world, but […]

Re: Babalakin obsession with…….. My attention has been drawn to a sponsored treatise by an unknown Alabi Azeez of a phantom online magazine codenamed Unilag Vanguard. The decision of the writer to launder the image […]

Has the outbreak of the coronavirus marked an end to faith healing practices in Nigeria, Africa and the world? This question has become necessary because traditional, Christian and Islamic faith healing claims have been rampant. […]

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which has compelled people to stay within their localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home. It has exposed the malignant ignorance within Nigerian leaders who […]