Issues/Policy

January is the height of the hunting season when the animals are restless. The games are on the move looking for better feeding ground and watering holes. The game hunters are on their trail. It […]

Abubakar Malami Esq. (SAN) Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Federal Ministry of Justice, Maitama District, Abuja, FCT. Dear Honourable Minister, In a press statement issued on December 24, you announced that you […]

We should also not forget to ask: Do we as a society contribute to creating many fraudulent and criminal billionaires? A system that makes it imperative to have many millions and even billions of naira […]

In international politics, there are no permanent friends (at least not one that colonised you), but permanent interests. The CFA is a neo-colonial relation between eight former colonies of France except Guinea-Bissau, which was colonised […]

Once a dictator, as a military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari sought democratic power, preaching change; and we embraced him, believing that nothing could be worse than the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. But we are […]

Recently, shareholders and partners in the multi-billion dollar Nigeria LNG sealed the final investment decision to construct the Train 7 expansion project after almost 12 years of delay. BUSINESS EDITOR, BASSEY UDO, who witnessed the […]

At swearing in, presidents and vice presidents , as well as governors and their deputies, usually take an oath of office, where they will promise to be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal […]

Shows were top on our Yuletide list and Burna Boy’s Christmas day performance was not originally part of it. However, my wife and daughters were keen. Majority rules in our house and I caved in. […]

Barely 24 hours after Kwara State Government announced its plan to build a new secretariat on the land currently housing the Ile Arugbo in Ilorin, the scion of the Saraki family, Bukola, came out threatening […]

Permit me to indulge in this end-of-the-year humbug. I have read some prophecies for the year 2020 by men who arrogate to themselves the title ‘’man of God’’. Well, since I am not born of […]

Iam constrained to pen this open letter owing to the cloud of silence exuding from your political party. Citizen Agba Jalingo was arrested in a gestapo fashion on August 22, 2019 on the instigation of […]

In 2018, during our struggle against evictions of this manner, the popular and hypocritical propaganda of the university was that we were against renovation exercise to be carried out by them as we chose to […]

One is deeply appalled that none of Nigeria’s numerous trendy Business Schools, inclusive of the so-called prestigious Lagos Business School, has risen to the challenge of lecturing the International Oil Companies (IOCs) on the acute […]

There is a sense in which we believe that an outgoing year actually dies. It ends. It quits the stage and goes into oblivion. It can only be a reference material thenceforth. It does not […]

Na God go punish all these our leaders!!” The agitated crowed started wailing. Some minutes ago, Mr Seun arrived work limping and immediately, drew the attention of everyone as he nursed the wounds around his […]

Once a dictator, as a military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari sought democratic power, preaching change; and we embraced him, believing that nothing could be worse than the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. But we are […]

Permit me to indulge in this end-of-the-year humbug. I have read some prophecies for the year 2020 by men who arrogate to themselves the title ‘’man of God’’. Well, since I am not born of […]

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says Abubakar Malami, minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, lacks powers to order the release of any detainee out of mercy. Falana said this while responding to Malami’s […]

Bamidele Salam, a member of the house of representatives, has opposed the plan to spend N37 billion on the renovation of the National Assembly Complex. There has been a nationwide outrage since President Muhammadu Buhari […]

In Nigeria, falling for Afghanistan’s sirens simply is when our newspaper columnists and writers focus their attention on far-flung foreign features while ignoring domestic hot-button issues beckoning them. When home matters of momentous concerns come […]