Issues/Policy

It was impossible believing what my eyes were seeing. I did a double take because it’s not every day one sees a great masquerade walking alone, without attendants or courtiers or whatever. The scene manifesting […]

All over the world, governments use tax revenues to provide jobs, build dams and roads, operate schools and hospitals, provide medical care and for hundreds of other purposes. Without taxes to fund its activities, government […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked the national assembly to discard the social media and hate speech bills. The association asked the legislature to devote its time to solving issues on poverty, insecurity, […]

Nigeria has come of age, and for a nation which got its independence fifty nine years ago, much ought to have been achieved in terms of general development more so considering the nation’s abundant human […]

Many of us have or have had friends in this or that government everywhere in our country. These friends have served or are serving in different capacities from the central government to the governments in […]

A recent report that a lion discreetly kept in a private residence was seized by state officials in Lagos, shows the level of impunity that has pervaded the Nigerian society, which the political elite have […]

Now Ibn Taimiyyah adds a different but equally useful perspective. He says a man may become a victim of demonic possession if he falls in the track of a Jinn which has excessive sensual or […]

I love Ile-Ife. Its dusty streets and ancient monuments are the enduring totems to some of the most memorable years of my youths. My set in Ife Anglican Grammar School, Ile-Ife, was the first to […]

After reading a quote by Martin Luther King Jr that ‘ Returning Hates for Hates multiply Hates, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can […]

The Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are at it again. But this time, the row has nothing to do with breach of agreement or non-payment of earned academic allowances. They are […]

gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 As President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Executive Order 009 last week, I could not hold back myself from thinking: We are a people given to setting unrealistic dates for achieving national agenda. We […]

Next time, Minister of Work and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, tries to grandstand about the great job the guys at his ministry are doing, please remind him of the shameful mess that the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway has […]

There is a probability that if the predicament facing the CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, had happened in, maybe, July or August this year, he would have landed on a hard ground. He is […]

On December 12, 2013, I woke up to Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘Before it is too late’; a caustic letter to former President Goodluck Jonathan. In the 18-page missive, Ebora Owu diced Jonathan like a sushi chef. […]

Religion from time immemorial has been both a blessing and curse to mankind. The positive side of it is that it helps regulate the behaviour of man. Man by nature is mean if left to […]

Nigeria is gripped in a macabre dance in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) where an ‘interim management committee’ is running the agency when the nominees for the board have been screened and confirmed for […]

Kogi State of Nigeria lived up to its billing during the gubernatorial election, read selection, on November 16 as the killing field of Nigeria. If Kogi State in the present dispensation has nothing else more […]

Behind the shabby school building, gathered with my peers during leisure period, we ransack tangled heaps of broken chairs and desks like scavengers. In a school of over 1800 students, each student is responsible for […]

In 1883, Otto Von Bismarck who later became the Chancellor of Germany was up in arms against the Marxists who were gaining ground in the country on a daily basis. In a single master stroke, […]

It was uncomfortable to hear that Henry Olajide Boyo, the economics columnist with The Punch newspaper, died last Monday, November 18, 2019. How could death come and snatch Boyo away just like that? “O t’oju […]