Issues/Policy

Given the kind of theatrics that come with political campaigns, it was not surprising that some mischief-makers in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, used the name of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic […]

The debate about the allegation of rape which hit social media penultimate week is still waxing stronger by every passing minute. As expected, a lot of people have expressed their divergent opinions from their level […]

Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo, representing Adamawa North, should hide his head in shame. But more importantly, the senator should be charged to court for assault; and the victims he assaulted should also bring an action […]

Questions will linger, even when it seems the cause celebre is over. No affair of the heart, especially where sex roils, ever fades into the grave. Even when it is only suggested, without a scintilla […]

Love him or loath him, you can’t take one thing away from Prince Nduka Obaigbena: his phenomenal pluck. The word “impossibility” simply doesn’t exist to him. So, he dares where most will dither. He throws […]

I would imagine that two things would have happened by now with the suspension of the Ruga, acronym for Rural Grazing Area, plan by President Buhari. One, the temperature generated over the controversy would dip, […]

The grand finale of the 2019 Army Day Celebration and Combat Support Arms Training Week (ADC-CSATNW – my abbreviation) ended last week. Not being a soldier, I will not pretend that I understood/understand in toto […]

Throughout his sojourn at the National Assembly, former senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki never saw anything immoral in expending one-quarter of the federal budget on fuelling the false lifestyle of lawmakers and their hangers-on. In […]

Losing a spouse — husband or wife — should not be the end of life for the victim. As a country and at community level, we need a new narrative (instead of the social dysfunction […]

Without proper dialogue, institutional measures to address concerns and safeguards to the cultures and ways of life of host communities, people will continue to assume the worst and kick against any insinuation of government coordinated […]

For the low, laughable, calibre of many of those who voted, were voted for, or will be voted for in future Nigerian elections, Dr. Kayode Esuola of the Institute of Diaspora Studies of the University […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says it is despicable to slap women. In his tribute at the launch of a memoir by Olusegun Osoba, former governor of Ogun state, on Monday, Osinbajo went down memory lane to […]

I think he got things wrong and needs to be quickly corrected. It is very important to correct this assertion so that some non-discerning elements from the South will not start jumping up and dancing. […]

Any government that would want to secure the future of Nigeria must invest in education. This is more urgent in the North where historical underdevelopment in Western education is responsible, more than the diversity in […]

Dear Mr. President, “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter. Sir, the “new normal” […]