Issues/Policy

With increasing intensity as the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s era hurtles to an embarrassing end, the truth has become inescapable: his government is as much a lie as any other. I have given […]

For some time now, I have been feeling bored about the happenings, political and non-political, all about us in our land, this land of dire hunger and dismal poverty and sub-human insecurity from everywhere to […]

Others at that time were particularly not happy that the debt profile of the country would soon rise to $60 billion from less than the $20 billion it was before the present government came to […]

As countries explore the most effective ways of promoting international human and labour rights standards beyond the traditional foreign instruments and mechanisms, most developed countries have found trade agreements or preferences viable tools in this […]

In a few days, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is eager to retire peacefully, will leave Nigerians and Nigeria in fragile pieces, as well as an economy that is struggling to survive. Buhari’s administration will be […]

All things, either good or bad, must come to an end in due season. The fate of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is no exception. As AMCON continues to lament its inability to […]

Today marks the golden jubilee of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), set up by the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon in 1973. Coming barely three years after the civil war ended, it was […]

When I opened what has turned out here to be a justifiable debate on the Adamawa gubernatorial problem, I never believed that it would be this prolonged. More than several readers, even from the diaspora, […]

According to Nigerian laws, once a candidate is declared by the electoral commission as duly elected into public office, only a court of law can declare otherwise. A candidate has been so declared. Aggrieved parties […]

Hearty congratulations to the National Youth Service Corps, on its golden jubilee anniversary. According to the information gleaned from the website of the corps, “the NYSC scheme was created in a bid to reconstruct, reconcile […]

Nigeria has been waging a war on terror for 11 odd years. The terror group started off as ragtag armed bandits that sprang up from the then-Islamic sectarian group known as boko haram in Maiduguri, […]

Adventurism in the context used here refers to the tendency of the Igbo to migrate to other lands and consciously decide to settle, build homes and develop those lands while their homeland is abandoned in […]

In its proper sense, sovereignty is the capacity of a nation State to independently run its affairs, determine its future, assert and defend its national interests in foreign and domestic settings. Plus, securing the well-being […]

International concerns about Nigeria’s high fertility rate calls for a deeper reflection on our national demography and its implications. Clearly, Nigeria’s bourgeoning young population is a potential national asset and the envy of the developed […]

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as Amended), sections 4 (1) & (2): (1) “The legislative powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be vested in a National Assembly for the Federation […]

The 2023 elections appeared well planned, with more than adequate budgetary provisions to ensure that the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) would deliver all promises and be firm at every point, not yielding to pressures […]

Creation and how it came into existence has, from time immemorial, been enigmatic to nearly all human beings on the face of the earth and will continue to be so for unforeseen-able future. Scientists have […]

Today I was prepared to speak some words that are words on the Adamawa abracadabra gubernatorial election. I was prepared to utter words that are words on Binani, Finitri, Hudu, INEC, APC, PDP, and the […]

A talented Nigerian musician, Adekunle Gold, in one of his popular songs entitled: Work, encouraged people to work hard. This is in harmony with what God’s word, the Bible, recommends in Ecclesiastes chapter 9, verse […]

The sack of the resources of the House of Oodua, or South-West, was accomplished by two sets of buccaneers, non-indigene military governors, who were first appointed by General Murtala Muhammed in 1975, and indigenous civilian […]