Issues/Policy

Most literate Nigerians have heard or read about gas flaring but it may not mean much to them. Some of them may know that gas flaring is done in the oil producing states of the […]

My uncle recently asked me to help guide and counsel his son, who is at that discouraging state which many young Nigerians find themselves in after graduating from the university, doing the national youth service […]

Ahmed Joda’s Board understood the enormity of the responsibility placed on them and set out to build one of the most respected regulatory bodies in the world. The Board embarked on extensive consultations worldwide with […]

The intoxicated celebrant is resting his celebration begun more than a month ago with randomly selected celebratory quotes from his primary Uniben constituency. Dr. I.A.: On this special day, I wanted to take a moment […]

Pity our public officers – the president, the state governors and even the local government chairmen. They are products and victims of a pernicious social system that has hardened into a tradition, to wit, the […]

Tope, my trophy-wife friend, ended in hospital and in trouble. No, she’s not ill. Her husband, Otunba, was rushed to the hospital about 2am a few days ago, panting and gasping. He lost consciousness on […]

Prof. Temi: It is preposterous, ridiculous, and unbecoming of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to poke its combative nose into matters that do, should not concern it. What is ASUU’s business with student loans […]

It is entirely reasonable to interpose the query as to the proper rationale for private military contractors in sovereign states. That quandary is strikingly pertinent where a sovereign nation possesses, and retains the deterrent capacity […]

On May 29th, 2023, when Tinubu was inaugurated as the President of Nigeria, he spoke off script and announced the withdrawal of fuel subsidy. The following day, the price of petrol increased astronomically. Not just […]

About 25 states in Nigeria suffered a shortage fall in internally generated revenue and struggle with cash crunch in the first quarter of 2023, findings by The PUNCH have shown. Data obtained from the budget […]

Security of lives and property has been accorded priority attention by governments of different countries of the world, be it democratic or military administration. This is so because an atmosphere devoid of fear, anxiety, threat, […]

I just returned from Morocco, where I represented the Humanists International at a conference on interfaith dialogue, June 13 to 15. The Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Kingdom of Morocco cooperated with Religions for Peace, the […]

Say what you like, but for the Nigeria Media, those who were hell-bent on destroying the country would have succeeded a long time ago. It was the design of the destroyers, right from the inception […]

The Nigerian economy has a bad attitude. I am sure you know that by now. This attitude borders on pure hostility and an unholy determination to defeat every effort by our leaders to tame it […]

In the first morning after – and still in a state of strange and un-strange slumberous-ness in which consciousness was never lost – I woke up. I was still every inch in me intoxicated – […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been receiving accolades for his initial, somewhat radical policy steps since he was inaugurated on May 29. Many economists, foreign media and, surprisingly, some Nigerian opposition figures are impressed with […]

For instance, Olaopa believes that there is an administrative pathology in the Nigerian civil service which he tagged “debilitating bureau-pathology” and that this conundrum can be surmised as “too many people doing nothing; too many […]

Four years of implementing the Police Duty Solicitors Scheme (PDSS) in some parts of Nigeria has revealed a dangerous trend affecting the effective implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice System The Administration of Criminal […]

On July 17, 2012, Peter Obi, then Governor of Anambra State, swore in five new commissioners. One of them was Chike Okoli, whom he assigned to the Ministry of Science and Technology where he would […]

The dissolution of the boards of government parastatals, agencies and companies the other day by the new government may have sent so many messages. But two of them I can relate to immediately. One, that […]