Issues/Policy

Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says she does not have intimate conversations in bed with her husband owing to a lack of time. She said it is the reason she keeps ”talking”. Speaking […]

Jane Appleton Pierce, the wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, is perhaps, most remembered as the ‘’calamity first lady’’. She spent her years working against the political ambition of her husband. […]

Few months ago, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari raised an alarm over the country’s burgeoning population, describing it as “frightening” and “a big challenge.” According to the President, “By average estimates, our population is close to […]

“It was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said that History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the […]

This latest study claiming the evolution of humanity occurred in a huge lake that previously existed in Botswana overlooks a fundamental requirement that the environment should be salty marine water as well as have a […]

This is a deleterious bill that warrants an urgent arrest. The apologists of this counter-productive bill are oblivious of the inherent cancer it poses to our democracy. The hierophants of this potentially obnoxious bill must […]

In the wake of the offseason governorship election of November 16 in Bayelsa and Kogi states, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in conjunction with other concerned stakeholders, has resumed conversation on how to make […]

The controversy being generated by the proposed hate speech bill by Nigeria’s senate is well deserved and not surprising. If anything, by its desire to make hate speech a capital offence, one is left in […]

As the country heads to the end of the year, President Muhammadu Buhari is declaring war on open defecation with the signing of Executive Order 009 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 which is titled, “The […]

Tayo Oke, drtayooke@gmail.com When it comes to big fishes, they do not come any bigger than the former Abia State Governor (1999-2007), a former presidential candidate (2007), now, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, […]

moody’s Investors Service, a global credit rating agency, last week downgraded Nigeria’s sovereign rating due to what it described as the increasing fragility of the country’s public finances as regards to the dependence of the […]

It is neither a bad idea for the Federal Government to take measures aimed at bolstering the total revenue accruable to its purse, nor is it ignoble or less productive for its Ministries, Departments and […]

After beating Lagos traffic, I finally arrive at a place Google Maps called Iju Train Station — it looked nothing like a train station. To the right was a middle-aged woman selling adequately roasted plantain, popularly known […]

Babatunde Fowler, former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), requested for an extension of his tenure before President Muhammadu Buhari announced his replacement, TheCable can report. Buhari appointed Muhammad Nami, a tax consultant, […]

That every society, whether in the developing or advanced economies of the world, face all manners of challenge in their dynamics and evolution cannot be over emphasised. However, the truth is many of these challenges […]

Sonala Olumhense (Sonala.Olumhense@gmail.com) For several weeks in something that looked like a Nollywood movie, the Nigerian government flagrantly defied the courts, refusing to release political activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore. There were people who thought […]

Recently, a video of a woman violently confronting a security officer who turned back her daughter at the gate of Queen’s College, Lagos went viral. In the said video, the mother of the student was […]