Issues/Policy

Nigeria is currently the seventh most populous country in the world with a total population projected to reach 236 million by 2030 and 410 million by 2050 making her the fastest-growing among the 10 most […]

According to most religious doctrines, marriage is ordained by God and it is a legal union between a man and a woman. Culturally marriage in Nigeria comes with a lot of respect for both the […]

What are the attitudes of thought that the current leaders of our democratic politics indeed have given us? Or what are the attitudes of thought that the current leaders of our democratic politics have been […]

‘Up Nepa!’ Those words seem to be one of the first that every kid learn to speak in Nigeria, which ironically prides herself as the Giant of Africa. Right from when I was born in […]

The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria, described by one English Language dictionary as the fun-loving people of the Southern part of West Africa have a habit of greeting people over everything. Whatever the matter […]

When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But […]

I: A Celebration of Scholarship Harry Garuba,internationally acclaimed Nigerian scholar, poet, journalist, editor, anthologist and theorist. A prince of Unemenekhua, Edo State, Harry Oludare Garuba was born in Akure on April 8, 1958. He graduated […]

The truly helpless society is not one threatened by revolution but one incapable of it—Samuel Huntington. There is a renewed consensus among a broad section of the Nigerian population that Nigeria is not working. To […]

Continued from yesterday It is true that not every injustice and violence suffered by a Christian automatically amounts to persecution. We live in an environment where injustice and insecurity is having a deadly toll on […]

The consecration of Reverend (Dr) Augustine Ndubueze Echema on February 13, 2020 as the Bishop of Aba Diocese in Abia State is the climax of a successful priestly vocation of Echema (as he is fondly […]

A former acting Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, Lagos, Mr Chima Igwe, may have defrauded government of millions of naira and committed perjury before his recent ouster by the institute’s governing […]

Coronavirus was always going to come to Nigeria. If a viral disease originates from China, the world’s most populous country, then Nigeria, the seventh most populous is surely a potential destination given the intricate interconnectedness […]

In the end, it is all bad economics. Markets and institutions ought to be as self-sustaining as possible. And the economy capable of plotting its courses without guidance from a nanny state. And where a […]

You only need to suffer a medical issue that requires urgent and specialist attention before you start harbouring doubts about Nigeria. The talk of patriotism and appreciating Nigeria and Nigerians will be thrown out of […]

2,890 days at most…. To do a thankless job that must be done urgently nonetheless. It doesn’t look like we have serious people on the horizon who see the urgency and sheer scale of the […]

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, on Sunday, came under intense criticism on social media for advising the Nigerian media to focus on the deaths caused by malaria […]

“Reconciliation does not mean forgetting or trying to bury the pain of conflict, but that reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.” ~ Nelson Mandela. It would appear that Senator Enyinnaya […]

Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to […]

In eight weeks — between January and February 2020, to be specific — a disease killed 118 Nigerians. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), there were 2,633 “suspected” cases, 609 “confirmed” and […]