Issues/Policy

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 […]

Quite a challenging week it has been for Nigeria, and, indeed, the rest of the world, writes Femi Adesina, the media adviser to President Buhari. Except perhaps in China only, where the affliction started from, […]

Once again, a major global illness has caught our country pants down. No country anticipated, let alone prepared for COVID-19. But other countries are ready for such eventualities. When they come, their response time is […]

The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: […]

Dear Mama Graça, It is with due respect that I decided to write to you today. We met at a number of fora over time but none as close as in April 1995 when I […]

Two Fridays ago, I narrated here what I felt about the interview Professor Banji Akintoye, the retired Professor of History and currently a top Yoruba leader, granted Channels Television. Mr. Ladi Akeredolu Ale, the anchor […]

The cloud out there is still dark, the thunderstorm swirls with warning. A day the trumpet blows itself without a signal may just have come. Just suddenly a day turns into a night. A scary […]

Political leaders in Nigeria from time immemorial especially in the fourth republic, developed a penchant for misfiring on issues that affect all Nigerians. From power to education, infrastructure, health and the topical COVID-19 pandemic of […]

The spread of the infectious Coronavirus now referred to as COVID-19, with its attendant and towering impact on global economy has clearly become an existential threat to humanity. The pandemic is reshaping the world in […]

In recent times, cases of natural disaster in the form of flood and fire outbreaks have wreaked havoc across Nigeria. This has resulted in the loss of lives and damage to property worth millions of […]

We are all learning science now. The Coronavirus pandemic, also known as Covid-19, is teaching humanity the lesson of a lifetime. Almost all the countries of the world are affected. On Sunday, Cuba, a small […]

When Senator Ndoma-Egba turned 64 on Saturday, the 7th day of March 2020, President Buhari publicly acknowledged him in glowing terms. The President in his goodwill message described Senator Ndoma-Egba as a role model, a […]