Issues/Policy

Even as experts on strategic distraction in the polity appear to be succeeding in imposing some frivolous agenda including a third-term-for-Buhari ambush on the media space, I would like to draw our attention to what […]

It is appalling that Nigeria frequently reports outbreaks, mortality and morbidity from diseases instead of sustainably promoting and implementing preventive measures. What is the purpose of report rhetoric without concrete actions? Some prominent and recurring […]

It was yet another recognition of excellence on Thursday, November 28, 2019, when Nigeria’s Paragon of Integrity, Prof. Is’haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, walked up the dais to receive the prestigious National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) […]

Anybody who read Sam Omatseye’s piece titled ‘The Road’ in The Nation newspaper edition of November 25, 2019, will easily understand the motive behind the effort, even from the first paragraph. It is simply a […]

willieojo@yahoo.com It is not my intention to express too fierily about the achievements or otherwise of the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle. I believe it is too early to make that call either way. […]

tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657 The torrent of congratulatory messages for the new Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, is capable of bringing down the roof. Nonetheless, I congratulate him too. Nigerians are saying they expect better times for […]

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. […]

Ordinarily, the expulsion of a 300 level Accounting student of Babcock University over a viral sex video should be stale by now, but for the expulsion of another set of undergraduates by the Federal University […]

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 […]