Issues/Policy

If a President cannot address a family problem before it goes public, how can he address the herculean task of governance and nation-building? This has been my concern since the rumour mongers went to town […]

Fatima Mamman Daura’s Monday interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation is as audacious as it is revealing. Until Fatima picked up the gauntlet, there were widespread aspirations to put a face […]

The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) says a Nigerian entrepreneur has been killed in the country over an alleged business disagreement with a client. Sylvester Okonkwo, acting chairman of NUSA in the Kwazulu Natal […]

The recent disclosure by the Country Director of Oxfam international in Nigeria, Mr. Constant Tchona, that no fewer than 94,470,535 people in Nigeria currently live below extreme poverty line, greatly contrasts the pronounced intention by […]

Mixed reactions have trailed the statement by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, which the federal government plans to re-introduce toll plazas on federal highways across the country. He stated this at […]

The saying “life is stranger than fiction”, may conjure images of happenstances that defy the imagination and stretch incredulity. Such occurrences may even engender universal awe and delight. Permit me to postulate a situation where […]

Agitation or call for a reduction in the cost of governance has been rather perennial. I wrote on this very topic sometime in the 1980s for the London-based West Africa magazine. I had then called […]

Movement is one of the key functions of any living organism. Naturally human beings, as the leaders of the food chain are expected to take advantage of this prerogative to the fullest. In essence, people […]

Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says scammers are using his office to defraud Nigerians. In a statement Willie Bassey, director of information in the SGF’s office, issued on his behalf, […]

Like an angry tornado, sex for grades is effacing life away from Nigerian universities. Every year, stories abound of how university professors and lecturers seduce and blackmail students. We all hear about it but it’s […]

Have you read President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech at the 25th Nigerian economic summit? Oh, you haven’t? It is a thought provoking and amazing revelation I must tell you. Please take a sit as countryman takes […]

Unless where government is using it to control unending longing of Nigerians for exotic products and ostentatious lifestyles.This takes me to the fiscal reforms that have been going on in China, whose model is copiously […]

The buttocks spoke to its owner, a lady well-endowed on the backside. However, other parts are in commensurable proportions in loudness though the backside is louder and more conspicuous. The buttocks having discovered its weight […]

Agitation or call for reduction in the cost of governance has been rather perennial. I wrote on this very topic sometime in the 1980s for the London-based West Africa magazine. I had then called for […]

Many Nigerians argue that the Nigerian Constitution is loaded too much in favour of the Federal Government, and it becomes extremely difficult for sub-national governments – states and the local governments – to be economically […]

In Nigeria, the pursuit of perfection or excellence is almost a crime. You have heard that it has been said by the wise men and women that the perfect must not become the enemy of […]

I have always assumed that ‘’the cabal’’ or the kitchen cabinet in any administration exists at the pleasure of the president or the leadership; hence members of this clique owe him and everything that comes […]

The Big Brother Naija reality show is condemned to a life of controversy. Such controversy is good for the show and it makes the organisers to watch their money grow by leaps and bounds. For […]

That the recent announcement of the proposed increase in the Value Added Tax rate from five percent to seven-and-half percent is generating ripples and knocks is not unexpected. The concern of those opposed to the […]

I have been finding it very tasking to go on with my usual op-eds in recent times. Too many commitments. So busy was I that I couldn’t write a line for the independence. However, a […]