Issues/Policy

The serial violations discovered from the 2017 Auditor General’s report leaves much to worry about the state of our nation. As concerned Nigerians continue to reflect on the reasons for the country’s slow progress, one […]

Tayo Oke, drtayooke@gmail.com What does it take to spend several years as a shop steward, then emerge as the boss; spend several years as trade union regional leader, then emerge as national leader; spend several […]

Nigeria is at the crossroad once again. The price of crude oil which is the mainstay of our economy has plummeted. Oil provides over 60 per cent of our revenues as well as over 85 […]

The furore over the removal of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from the throne of his forebears is unlikely to die down any time soon. It’s a storm in a tea cup, if […]

Today’s VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) calls for a rethink on how we organise, perceive our work and execute to deliver value speedily to the customer because the volatile environment would very quickly invalidate […]

Never has our institution, FUNAAB, been led by a recalcitrant head whose sworn mission, it clearly seems, is to go beyond all boundaries of professionalism and due process in proving his misplaced maladministration to the […]

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, again recorded another deadly explosion on Sunday morning, leaving behind devastation and chaos in its wake for all those directly affected. The incident, which happened around the Abule Ado area of […]

The last Monday sack of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, erstwhile Emir of Kano, by the Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, sent shock waves round the whole of Nigeria and I dare say to every nook of […]

A German Philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer once said that suffering by nature, or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted by the arbitrary will of another. If you were a Nigerian, currently experiencing the poor […]

When the ancient gate to the palace opened that fateful evening of Monday, March 9, 2020, the convoy of pickup vans, buses, and cars that drove out bore the somber looks reminiscent of a funeral […]

One case that lingers in the memory from those days of growing up in Akure had to do with a death in a crowd. Who killed the man that died during one of those demonstrations […]

His conflict resolution skills rid the Niger Delta of the habitual tension caused by militants in 2017. His sense of diplomacy settled what was to become a rift between the FG and the S/West State […]

Former MD/CEO, Pfizer/Neimeth, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, spoke to Southeast Bureau, CHIEF LAWRENCE NJOKU, on various topical issues. • It Does Not Require Microscope To See That This Government Is Unfair To Southeast How would you […]

We are on the march again looking for Mr. President even when we should be seeking ways to shoot the trouble our poor judgment created last time we recruited one. I still believe that there […]

These are depressing times – stemming from different factors of course – for a large sector of the nation. Insecurity, economy in a coma, a leadership in name only, having vanished into ether, permanently AWOL […]

His conflict resolution skills rid the Niger Delta of the habitual tension caused by militants in 2017. His sense of diplomacy settled what was to become a rift between the FG and the S/West State […]

In 1947 when the British Raj left India after being there for well over three centuries, the newly created independent state of India opted to do away with the traditional institutions that had been part […]