Issues/Policy

Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, has said that National Youth Service Corps members will now receive the new minimum wage as allowance. While speaking to the press on Thursday, the minister revealed the government’s […]

There are often thoughts that come to mind, questioning the essence of life. There are situations of maximum hopelessness that makes life seem unendurable. There are moments of total shame or impending grand shame that […]

The mess bedeviling the Kano Emirate Council is President Muhammadu Buhari’s baby. It stinks like a skunk, but he ought to own it. The crisis has tap roots in Buhari’s growing twin evil of selective […]

When people like me write about the failure and imperfections of the church system, some people won’t bother to look at the merit of our submissions, but dismiss them as the rants of incurable critics […]

In the words of Buzz Hargrove, a Canadian Labour leader, the future strength of every nation depends on its young people as their generation will provide the next leaders. Given this preceding position, it will not be an overstatement […]

I do not believe that a society can sustain its democratic claims if it allows its public office holders to run two lives: an open public life and another jealously sheathed private one. At work, […]

As soon as Ajax of the Netherlands and Tottenham Hotspur of England ended their UEFA Champions League second leg semi-final encounter in the night of Wednesday, May 08, 2019, that is, nine nights ago, someone […]

LORD Frederick Lugard, British Governor-General of Nigeria between 1914 and 1919, expressed the following views about Africans in his book, The Dual Mandate, which was published in 1926: “In character and temperament, the typical African […]

On April 1, 1981, Governor Rimi created four new emirs who were declared to be co-equal with the emir of Kano – those of Auyo, Dutse, Gaya and Rano. It was not an April Fool […]

Our goal is to our push students out of their cozy zones and ignite their passions; once this happens and their imaginations are set ablaze, amazing things take place. This is how we motivate and […]

To the perceptive, one of the puzzling changes to governance in the last 20 years is the progressive weakening of the all-powerful-state and the rise of groups, businesses and personages, who wield more influence and […]

For anyone who thinks that the scale of insecurity in this country tips towards the North, there is news for them – we are all in the eye of the storm. The whole country is […]

Nigeria is in a new season of political firsts. In 2015, for the first time, a sitting government was defeated at the polls. In 2019, for the first time, a sitting president should be removed […]

For anyone who thinks that the scale of insecurity in this country tips towards the North, there is news for them – we are all in the eye of the storm. The whole country is […]

In assessing the chances of President Donald Trump for the 2020 American Presidential election, the American telecom giant, Yahoo! Media Incorporated rated Trump as winning the 2020 poll with a landslide victory because the United […]

In 1865 a month after America’s civil war ended the abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass posed this question “In what new skin will the old snake come forth? That question remains a metaphor reading […]