Issues/Policy

The Queen’s College Old Girls Association (QCOGA) says the recent outbreak in the school is not water-related. Some students in the school had been admitted at the sickbay following a fresh outbreak of an infection. […]

Sochi, the Black Sea resort in the Russian Federation, has hosted many international events. Sochi 2019 refers to the first Russia-Africa Summit to be held on 23-24 October 2019 in that city. My article titled […]

The judiciary has come a long way in trying to use the law to guide society and make the people be law-abiding as well as foster peace among citizens in the country. However, to judge […]

A recent article in The Guardian of the UK, titled “Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language,” critically outlines the issues regarding the possibility of a breakdown in communication […]

Nigeria is dead! Let those words sink in. Two hundred million people are without regular and steady power. No treated water. No roads. Hunger is prevalent. Food is expensive. Salaries are not being paid as […]

The woeful state of affairs in Nigeria is a logical consequence of truncated national aspirations and lost opportunities to build a strong vibrant nation from independence. The country derailed six years after independence in 1966. […]

In August 2018, one month after I ‘moved’ into a rented apartment, Ikeja Electric sent me a power consumption bill in excess of N22,000. This was daylight robbery; I knew there was no chance I’d […]

This week’s topic is indeed the conclusion of the whole matter I began three weeks ago on a thematic area: ‘Why Buhari is a man of the decade (1&2)’. It has been part of my […]

Nigeria like most developing countries of the world is faced with problems of youth and graduate unemployment, high rate of poverty and low economic growth and development. The high rate of unemployment among the youth […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed optimism that South Africa is addressing xenophobia. Speaking with journalists in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, on Saturday, Obasanjo said he believes the South African government is putting adequate measures […]

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st 1949, the Chinese people have brought enormous changes to the country, creating an unprecedented miracle of development in the world history. Once labelled […]

The United Kingdom and United States are Nigeria’s role models in democratic governance. At the end of colonial rule, the UK bequeathed Nigeria with its parliamentary form of democracy. But after some tumultuous years, a […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in New York last week against the background of a sad legal hoopla about having been “insulted” on television by a citizen. And then he demonstrated why it is virtually […]

A former spokesperson for late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Olusegun Adeniyi, has said that pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, predicted long ago that the Department of State Services would not obey the […]

He was a foundation member of the team that set up pacesetting Newswatch magazine, published by the trio of Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu and Yakubu Mohammed. Nyaknno Osso was the Librarian and later Editor of […]

Come Tuesday 1st October 2019, the Urhobo Renaissance Movement (URM) will rally the Urhobo people to its inaugural public outing in what promises to be a redirection for one of Nigeria’s most resourceful and dynamic […]

In about 72 hours from now, Nigeria will celebrate its 59th independence anniversary. The country is now 59 years old. It means it’s 59 years that the country extricated itself from British colonial rule. Expectedly, […]