Issues/Policy

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 […]

There are more Nigerians than other nationals on death row in Malaysia, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday. Of the 568 foreign nationals on death row for various offences in Malaysia, 119 are […]

Nigerian government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country is still in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into through capital releases, […]

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of […]

The 119 Nigerians on death row in Malaysia may be saved from the executioner if the country’s legislature passed a bill to abolish the death penalty as being proposed by the country’s law minister Liew […]

It was a sore point he touched. President Muhammadu Buhari who is not known for diplomatese said it as it is. In his address to the newly inaugurated Economic Advisory Council he dismissed the data […]

The appointment at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta will provide him a unique opportunity to contribute to the diffusion of creativity, the linkages of sciences, technology and culture, and the training of future leaders […]

The great teachers!! We are the great teachers!! This slogan caught my attention recently, while inside a BRT bus. A group of ladies perhaps in their late 30s or mid 40s shouted this slogan again […]

The first time of hearing of qualified people leaving South Africa for greener pastures was when I was leaving Nigeria for South Africa. There was reason for leaving South Africa then especially if you were […]