Issues/Policy

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 […]

The Vietnamese government says all the 16 patients who were infected with coronavirus in the country have recovered. Vu Duc Dam, the country’s deputy prime minister, was quoted as saying all the infected patients, including […]

Last month, the latest disease in town: the corona virus hit China with some deaths recorded and many severely ill from it. Many countries were caught in a crossroad as the communist country is a […]

On Saturday February 22, 2020 I was the guest speaker at the 66th anniversary of an iconic secondary school in the old Okitipupa Division (South) of Ondo State, ‘Manuwa Memorial Grammar School, Iju-Odo in ‘Ikale […]

Sixteen years ago, precisely on Friday, December 3, 2004, at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, I listened with real curiosity to the current Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo, then a staff […]

On December 14, 2016, the senate asked Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), to immediately resign from office. This followed the recommendation of its ad hoc committee on the humanitarian crisis […]

Rita Omokha is a Nigerian-American graduate journalism student at Columbia University, where she is writing a book on the history of Nigerian immigration. Rita’s mum is a nurse who migrated to the US in 1992 […]

Recently, 22-year old Daibo Toju Davies, reportedly jumped into the lagoon on the 3rd Mainland Bridge. The victim, a resident of 17 Sosanya Street, Gbagada Soluyi, Lagos, allegedly engaged the services of Uber Taxi, with […]

Pretending that the crisis will go away is futile; and treating the Oluwo like a wayward schoolboy who will sit up by a mere wink of the eye portrays the government as weak or – […]

There is a general outcry about the preavailing hot weather especially in the cities.People now sweat more and are having frequent baths.There is restlessness among urbanites. The signs of the heat now being experienced have […]

Since the colonial days, Ekiti State has been landlocked, airport-locked, railwaylocked, industrylocked and powerlocked, a development that has adversely affected the economic development of the state. Conversely, most of the other states in the country […]

In this piece, BOLA BAMIGBOLA examines the controversies of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, since his enthronement as the 16th Oluwo in 2016 The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, has been one […]