Issues/Policy

A fresh crisis is brewing in Ogoni over plans by the Federal Government through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to resume crude oil production in the Ogoni area of OML 11 by October. Not […]

William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest English poet and playwright, in his epic play- Macbeth, looking melancholic and distraught, as a result of the death of lady Macbeth, had soliloquized- “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, creeps […]

Pope Francis says abortion is like “hiring a hitman” and can never be condoned, even when the foetus is gravely sick or likely to die. The pontiff was speaking on Saturday at a conference at […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari drew attention recently to the offensive Almajiri system that features children yanked at an early age onto the streets in the Northern states to become beggars and social miscreants in the name […]

My Lord Bishop, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, if you ask me and if I am permitted to… once again air my views, I will, without hesitation recommend that we go back to that number one […]

Recent happenings across the country show that there is an alarming upsurge in incidence of suicide. Usually, Nigerians are considered lovers of life and as such would never contemplate suicide for whatever reason. But recent […]

In Lagos, a few days back, the heavens opened and it rained profoundly. If the enormity of the recent rainfall is anything to go by, Lagos residents must gear up for more of such fierce […]

True, there is no nation without security challenges. As we have become accustomed to hearing in the last four years, it did not start with this administration. This and many other excuses are often used […]

I am persuaded that as we optimise multimodal means of transportation of goods and cargo from the port, we would minimise vehicular traffic, and the Apapa gridlock will become a thing of the past. As […]

On Tuesday, Nigeria’s house of representatives passed a bill banning the use and sale of plastic bags in the country. According to the legislation, anyone that fails to provide customers with paper bags in place […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday declined comments about whether it had launched an investigation to find out how former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, came about the bullion vans that drove into […]

Conspiracy theories are the palm oil of Nigeria’s politics. They give taste to falsehood, tension, fear and unrest. And often, they are ignorantly eaten, regurgitated and spewed by the unwary. On December 11, 2013, former […]

A British man has been arrested in Uganda on suspicions of “intoxicating the public” after he claimed to have carried out a trial of a “miracle cure” on local villagers using industrial bleach. Sam Little, […]

In the Dark Ages of what we now call the United Kingdom, kings and dukes needed a way to raise an army that did not require large payments of cash. This led to the beginnings […]

A notable trait of most Nigerians irrespective of ethnic group, religious persuasion, academic achievement, and social strata is the craze to acquire and be addressed with titles. In Nigeria, bigmanism is a national malady, and […]

Dapsy has always argued, worked for and demonstrated that the answer to authoritarianism was to be found in the “investigative tradition to Nigerian journalism (which) challenged the military’s sense of its own legitimacy.” His position […]

The headline was a shock: “North will shock south in 2023 over presidency – Tony Momoh.” As the Hausa man would say, haba. We thought the rotation of the presidency between the north and the […]

Anyone seeking to understand the concept of a tortured soul only needs to pay close attention to Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, whose every action in recent days seems to provoke his demons instead […]