Issues/Policy

This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be […]

drtayooke@gmail.com A former Chief of Training and Operations Officer, Air Vice Marshal Olutayo Oguntoyinbo, had been standing trial for receiving a “gift” of N166m from a contractor under his management, but, was sensationally acquitted of […]

For weeks now, people have been sharing messages on the social media, warning the public to avoid travelling on certain highways in the South-West because of the activities of kidnappers, believed to be herdsmen. Victims […]

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has enormous challenges on his hands. And, son of man pity him a lot. He has been very comfortable almost throughout his life with his hands in lovely portions […]

The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, once said of himself, that the day he was born, one other being was born with him, fear; for his mother went into labour on hearing of the approach of […]

Right from the first day she stepped into her role as the Acting Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in April 2017, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar must have known she was gliding straight into […]

A country can only operate efficiently if it has a basic grasp of the number of people that exist within it. This is where democratic accountability begins. I do not believe the data from our […]

The annual ritual marked as the World Environment Day has no meaning in Nigeria since the day is merely used by government officials to deliver beautiful keynote speeches and rehearse the same environmental problems plaguing […]

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 […]