Issues/Policy

His charge should be to spend the next 100 days erecting a solid, visible and logical foundation, especially in education, health and wealth creation. It is then that he will be able to totally convince […]

Today, more than I have ever felt, I am asking myself, if Nigeria is not one big lie. And if the persistence of this lie is not at the heart of the insecurity that we […]

In recent years, personality psychologists have refined our understanding of personality and have reached a working consensus that personality traits can be comprehensively conceptualized and reliably measured by observing the dealings of people in their […]

Notwithstanding the passions elicited each time public discourse touches the subject, “deregulation” is not always the invitation to anarchy that its opponents invariably make it out to be. Doubtless, advocates of both the concept and […]

Fragile but brutal, life is the mortal combat that grinds slowly but surely. The Yoruba explain this paradox in their worldview description of life as being as delicate as an egg (aye gbe’ge), and as […]

The late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was the acclaimed, legitimate winner of the 1993 presidential election, which was purportedly conducted to usher in a democratic administration after Gen Ibrahim Babangida’s eight years as Nigeria’s sole […]

It has been 12 days since Muhammadu Buhari took a new oath of office which would enable him govern Nigeria for the next four years as the President and Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces. […]

Kaduna State’s new law to regulate religious preaching outlaws the use of religion for incitement and encourages respect for the rights of others and compliance with the law in the practise of faith. The new […]

A few weeks ago, I sat for hours at the airport in Abuja as all flights were grounded because President Buhari was returning from the UK. What was meant to be a 4pm flight back […]

“As I watched our First Lady on television on Saturday, I saw dissent. I saw deviance. I saw resistance. I saw opposition to what the present gives. She is a rare combination of beauty, brain […]

The administration of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, issued a query to Muhammadu Sanusi, emir of Kano, over alleged financial misappropriation. This followed a probe by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission which […]

In light of what we know about the odyssey of press freedom last year, however, the publisher of Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi, whose online newspaper is a relentless thorn in government’s side, must be asking […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has come out clearly with a position that the presidency of the Ninth Senate has been zoned to the North-East geo-political zone. Beyond that, the party appears to have […]

Despite the fact we’re living in the 21st century the ugly issue of domestic violence against women ( – and sometimes men!) is on the increase and growing to epidemic levels. The main perpetrators of […]

As a matter of urgency, President Buhari should direct the anti-graft agencies, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the ICPC – involved in the earlier case – to probe these newer allegations […]

A few years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a professor of political science in his office at the University of Ibadan. We talked about many things but mostly about where Nigeria was headed […]