Issues/Policy

In a recent interview with The Economist, Chimamanda Adichie, one of Africa’s leading feminist voices struck chords with clever sound bites, one of which was an anecdote on the performance of feminist resistance. Towards the […]

Those who are familiar with the history of the Israelites will understand why their story in the wilderness will not be complete without a mention of how, at a stage, they had preferred being “slaves […]

Nigerians and other foreign nationals resident in South Africa’s Keimoes and Upington areas of Northern Cape Province were yesterday morning given 12 hours to vacate by the indigenes. The President of Nigeria Union in South […]

’Tunji Ajibade(tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657) The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Sa’ad Abubakar III, made a public comment recently. It’s his opinion regarding what some have pronounced as persecution of Christians in Nigeria. The Sultan didn’t deny […]

“ God is into succession. Anyone in government that does not concern themselves about succession is destroying their own legacy because the person coming after you can just mess up everything” – Pastor Tunde Bakare, […]

January 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian Civil War and the official end of the short-lived Republic of Biafra. It is unlikely there will be any national event to mark […]

Dear Aisha Buhari, Last Christmas in Lekki, Lagos, where I live, I saw a street beggar and I thought about you. She sat on a pavement near a busy junction. She was barefoot and wore […]

I would like to start by acknowledging the recent piece by the award-winning columnist, Abimbola Adelakun, titled, “There is nothing like ‘money rituals’”, (The Punch, January 2, 2020). I thank Adelakun for taking the bull […]

Motorcycle, popularly known as okada, is now one of the primary modes of transportation commonly used in the country. Most people opt for okada for many reasons. Some do so because it is considered convenient, […]

‘IF Igbo want to be president” is now the refrain in Nigeria even as the next election cycle in 2023 is three years away. When it has to do with the Igbo and their inalienable […]

Governors in the six states of the South West have told the Federal Government not to see the launch of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun as an agenda to undermine the integrity of […]

In recent times, the embattled governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, seems to realise that he needs a second term to continue as governor of Edo State. For a governor as powerful as Godwin Obaseki, […]

In these days of clannish foreboding and apprehension, in which revolution has become an odious and abhorrent expression; it may not be a treasonable eulogy to describe His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Governor […]

The situation within the Ministry of Power superintended by the duo of Engineer Sale Mamman and Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba in the last few weeks undoubtedly calls for concern. This unpleasant development portends danger for every […]

While pondering over headlines highlighting the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (redt.)’s comment on Nigerians spending so much to attend hospitals abroad, I arrived at two conclusions of which one is likely. The first is […]

More than a decade ago when I first started writing this column, one of the articles I wrote was on Nigerian “Nostradamuses”. In that piece, I called out the culture of Nigerian pastors’ annual prophetical […]

It is happening! For those that are still waiting for 2030 to start seeing accelerated impacts of climate change, they have the movie now, early release. Nigeria has swapped its climate with Europe, it seems. […]