Issues/Policy

In an opinion piece, titled Shaka Momodu, a columnist as hater-in-chief, presidential media adviser Femi Adesina denounces the writer for hateful articles on Buhari that are often replete with lies: For many years, week after […]

Last year October, about a week after the nation space that we have generously agreed to refer to as Nigeria, celebrated her 59th year of Independence from colonial rule, I found myself at the Athens […]

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s only Nobel Laureate has warned that the nation cannot afford to lose another 2.5 million people to war as it did 50 years ago to the Nigerian Civil War. He spoke […]

MANY Nigerians want to leave. That is why a citizen would gather a lot of money and pay a human trafficker to be taken through the horrors of the desert with the possibility of dying […]

WITH a forecast by the World Bank that Africa’s most populous country urgently requires millions of jobs to avert an implosion, it should be all hands on deck, to promote inclusive economic growth. Describing the […]

It’s one of the most amazing creatures in nature, though fear, cunning and deathliness rule its world. The weak don’t call its name in vain, especially at night. It runs, swims and even jumps when […]

‘Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things’ (Peter Drucker). “If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” […]

…how will this situation affect Nigerians? The answer is: We really don’t know for now. However, this is an area that will require effective diplomacy and constant management to ensure that Nigerians are safe and […]

…what does 2020 have for us? We have shown, through the culinary analogy, that the year has nothing to present more than what we give it. Nor can it offer what we didn’t give its […]

Demolition of structures – including undoubtedly illegal ones – is often a highly emotive subject. So the intense debate arising from the ongoing urban renewal drive of the Enugu State government aimed at reclaiming the […]

We should under no circumstances let terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because those barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world” – President Buhari after Muslims […]

Dikoye Oyeyinka, 33, has been billed as one of the most promising Nigerian writers of his generation. He went to some of the finest schools in his West African homeland but says that like the […]

Were the setting the same or the equities equal to what is obtained in the old Oyo Empire respecting the face-off between Adams Oshiomhole and Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, his erstwhile anointed godson, […]

Let Uncle Ramoni think again and make amends. Let the president think seriously of Comrade Muhammad’s agony and perhaps send him a message. That is one great PR opportunity that the president’s handlers have passed […]

…Justice Tanko has not only crossed the dividing lines of the separation of powers by going beyond his constitutional responsibility of interpretation of the law to now suggesting how the law should be made, but […]