Issues/Policy

Given the age of the US establishment and its increasing inability to come to terms with the unfolding global reality, it is certain that it is suffering from a recurring diplomatic memory loss. Let me […]

In the late 1990s, a former Head of State probably woke up from the wrong side of his bed and decided to purchase above five per cent stake in a quoted oil company on The […]

Very few Nigerians would have been surprised to learn that such behaviour happens. What the episode did was to confirm what people already knew. It was not for nothing that the joke during the recent […]

It came to pass that the elections for the four top positions in the National Assembly namely, President of the Nigerian Senate, the deputy, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the deputy, which held […]

Great nations take advantage of the benefits accruing from diversity in the task of nation building, economic growth and development. The task of nation building seeks to utilise and deploy all the positive qualities of […]

It seems that begging has been normalised in Nigeria. It is ubiquitous. Virtually everybody is begging, irrespective of status. The only difference is the type of begging and the target of the begging. Those who […]

After many years of procrastination and proclamations about fuel subsidy, the decision by President Bola Tinubu announcing Nigeria’s departure from fuel subsidy cannot be timelier. This is more so against the backdrop of the big […]

The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political circles as its percussion impacted virtually all spheres of life. It […]

While Malcolm X says “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”; Nelson Mandela says “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to […]

Browsing through the internet this morning, I came across an article written by one Bob Majiri Oghene Etemiku, which he titled: “Buhari’s Blood Runs Through Osinbajo’s White Agbada.” In the said article, Etemiku stooped so […]

On Monday May 22, 2023, policymakers and captains of industries from across the world converged at the Lekki axis of Lagos state for the commissioning of the world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels-per-day petroleum refinery, built […]

Without any iota of doubt, Nigeria was the cynosure of all eyes on Monday, May 29, 2023, when the country inaugurated its new President at the Federal Capital Abuja. The event attracted the crème de […]

As I was saying last Monday, misgovernment at sub-national levels poses more threat to our democracy than we are programmed to admit. Our minds are always fixed on the Federal Government. But we can’t keep […]

Jim O’ Neill, the Chief economist of the multinational investment bank, Goldman Sachs, in 2001 coined the acronym BRIC, which initially stood for Brazil, Russia, Indian and China. At the time, the four countries were […]

To say that the post-secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the […]

There is so much to say and to write about the month of May. May is the fifth month of the year. As numerologists are wont to say, but mostly those who preoccupy themselves with […]

The sun glowed brightly over the Aso Rock Villa last Wednesday as the federal cabinet, headed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), met for the last time. How time flies! For some, the […]

Each person is a thread in the tapestry of creation but some people stand outside of the weave directing the thread and painting the pictures that become reality. Tokunbo Wahab, the immediate past Special Adviser […]

On 31 December 1983, Sani Abacha, then an unknown Brigadier in the Nigerian Army, went on radio to announce the overthrow of the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari, claiming that the military had […]