Issues/Policy

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 […]

At least 1.534 trillion naira has been received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) since its inception in 2001. This amount was allocated to the NDDC for expenditures on projects to reverse the huge […]

Let me make this categorically clear ab initio. This piece is about continuity. I have taken a decision to be this open from the outset to avert taking readers through needless interpretative exercise and in […]

Call it evil, despicable, horrendous, unlawful and pervasive, there’re yet no adjectives that can soothe the agony of a rape victim. For me, rape is the very worst crime there is. How on earth is […]

censoj@gmail.com; 08127235995 What is the value and meaning of democracy especially in the Nigerian context? What were the dreams and aspirations of a majority of Nigerians, including the activists who fought the military to withdraw […]

“A library of financial matters is shut down” – Bob Etemiku “Henry Boyo was the one we read to get a lay man’s interpretation of economic policies” – Khaleb Ogbonna sometime in December 2011, I […]

“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” Indira Gandhi The vitriolic and caustic reaction of Bishop Abiodun Ogunyemi, the combative Bishop of the historic St. George’s Anglican Church Sabon Gari , Zaria to the […]

Tony Blair, former British prime minister says Britain is in a mess, accusing Labour and Conservative Parties of “peddling fantasies”. Britain is holding an election three years ahead of schedule because parliament was deadlocked over […]

Lagos, the Centre of Excellence, means a lot to many people. For some, it is the most viable State in Nigeria in terms of commercial activities. For others, it is home. However, Lagos is one […]

When in September, in the wake of Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, Air Peace Limited Chairman, Allen Onyema volunteered to fly Nigerians in South Africa back home, the entire nation was awash with his praise. Nigerians […]

Uber was stripped of its licence to operate in London today after serious safety flaws with the company’s app allowed unauthorised drivers to pick up passengers. The US minicab company, which has almost 50,000 drivers […]

I read this epistle full of lies and half-truths by Lolu Aderogba, hoping he would tell us the real governance issues not being addressed by Governor Seyi Makinde. Alas, I was disappointed! Therefore, I am […]

There is only one thing that unites driving a ship through a terrible storm, marshalling an army for an offensive against the enemies and governing a state in ways that ensure the empowerment of the […]