Issues/Policy

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. […]

My four years as an undergraduate at the University of Lagos witnessed what I can describe as an annual mess which, I dare say, is peculiar to my great alma mater. Unfortunately, this messy situation […]

The bumbling Washington’s regime of Mr. Donald Trump has finally crossed the line; cold-bloodily assassinating formal top actor of another state on the street. Major General Qassem Solemaini is not a shadowy chief of a […]

“The tariffs shall remain the same as they presently are (i.e. 2015 levels) until April 1, 2020 when there will be a slight increment to cater for tariff shortfalls which shall be gradually passed on […]

Segun Ogundeji & Rasak Musbau Government’s investment in transport infrastructure is a big factor in people’s quality of life. It is the backbone and chief driver of socio-economic development, which every country strives to achieve. […]

It is vitally important that the submission in this week’s column be rendered outside of any industrial controversies that usually surround this vexed issue of our time. So, no taking sides, no schisms, no rancour. […]

Julie Okah-Donli, Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Abuja: I read the article titled as above last Thursday where the writer, Abimbola Adelakun, said there was no such thing as rituals […]

Despite her potential for greatness, a large population with great human capital (i.e. a dynamic workforce), enormous natural resources, growing economy, raw materials and great reservoir of oil deposits which presents her as the largest […]

As 2019 was winding down, Nigerians in different places, including schools, universities, offices, churches, mosques, market places most deservedly discussed what Nigeria would be like in 2020 having regard to the multifarious problems that afflicted […]