Issues/Policy

I refer to the above article by Professor Pius Abioje published in the Guardian of 07 May 2019. The writer’s pieces appear on my reading radar frequently. What you can’t take away from him is […]

I have taken pains to go through the speech delivered by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, President of the Court of Appeal and chairman of the five-man Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, at the inaugural sitting of the […]

With the recent issuance of a certificate of return to billionaire politician, Prince Ned Nwoko of Delta North Senatorial District by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), despite a pending appeal before the Court of […]

I am incontrovertibly Igbo, and I am unwaveringly committed to the good of the Igbo. However, I am unrepentantly anti-Biafra. I am opposed to Biafra because the Igbo have the most to lose in the […]

With the rest of the world beginning to turn its back on petroleum products in favour of sustainable renewable energy sources the demand for oil in the coming years will drop: the current price of […]

Many Asian countries including Saudi Arabia and Singapore impose the capital punishment on drug trafficking. This has not deterred dare devil traffickers from trying their luck in these countries as the ‘rewards’ are extremely bountiful […]

The Pope in 1493, by the Treaty of Tordesillas and as subsequently amended by further treaties, laid the foundation for Western world dominance. The Pope divided the world into two halves, gave the Western half […]

Nature makes fine gold go through the fire to purify it and make it into finer gold. Any sincere observer of the travails of ‘Oloye’ as he is fondly called will see nothing but an […]

We are not in Spain. But there, it is claimed that bulls are enraged when red flags flutter before them. The matador, the man who fights and kills a bull in a sport, gets the […]

Nigeria is in the throes of crises. They range from political crisis, economic crisis, social crisis to security crisis, the last being the most serious and the most daunting. The security crisis is hydra-headed as […]

There are speakers you just cannot get tired of listening to, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah and the Chairperson of First bank of Nigeria, Ibukun Awosika. They have the energy, the language and […]

Without ignoring irony as a characteristic value of a mature literary work- the maintenance of desperate perspectives- I wish to regard it here as also a mode of interconnection, as illuminating discrepancy. Awareness of a […]

In April 2019, CBN made good its over a year old promise, to tackle the acute shortage of lower Naira denominations by flooding the market with fresh supplies of N50, N20, N10, N5 POLYMER denominations, […]

It is often said that when power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Many of the state governors, due largely to their unhindered and unlimited access to billions of public funds they are not made to […]

The much touted fight against corruption is something that attracts different interpretations to different people. For some, it does not matter if our anti-corruption agencies go after members of the opposition only. I sincerely do […]

In recent times, the spate of attacks on Lagos traffic managers has increasingly become disturbing, troubling and worrisome. Officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have been at the receiving end of various […]

On 3 May after a closed door meeting, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, announced a deal between the FG and the Miyetti Allahh Cattle Breeders Association as part of efforts to curtail […]

simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com, sms: 0805 500 1961 Eleven years ago — to be specific, on July 7, 2008 — the title of my column was: “One Day, the People Will Rebel”. I warned that the extravagant lifestyles […]