Issues/Policy

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the collapse of the National Grid on May 8, at 2:32 p.m. was caused by a multiple tripping on its substation in Onitsha, Anambra. The Managing Director of […]

Cecilia Ibru, former chief executive officer of the defunct Oceanic Bank, says she was persecuted by Lamido Sanusi, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), because he thought she wanted his job. In […]

It may be too early to write the political obituary of the military in our body politic, for anything can happen before 2023. But let us indulge ourselves in bidding the military goodbye from our […]

…Sall won a second term in office on the back of a remarkable economic record. The Sengalese economy grew from about 5 per cent in 2012, when he first took office, to 7 percent in […]

…omission by the INEC led the two judges to allege non-compliance with the electoral law. Under this pretext, they cancelled the votes in the 23 polling units. The cancellation led to a loss of 2,029 […]

Independent media is collapsing. Across the world news is taking a different form, starkly against the realities of the past. Nowhere is this more felt than in West Africa’s most populated country Nigeria. Just last […]

A current advertisement on TV shows a lady cutting vegetables in a crowded marketplace. Her English is as good as that of any university graduate in Nigeria. She said people called her mere vegetable seller. […]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the US President in tough times. The Great Depression and World War II were harrowing events that could have mowed Americans down to the rubble. But, the 32nd President successfully pulled […]

For ardent practitioners of the different faith in Nigeria’s religious landscape, there are sacred rites that sometime take the faithful outside the country, on journeys to holy sites around the world, in adherence to religious […]

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, […]

The South-West is primed to be the next theatre of mass slaughter and pillaging. This is not the time to placate killers. To be in a position of weakness is not strength, it is weakness. […]

Judging from its latest investigation on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is easily convincing more Nigerians that it is acting on the instruction of some persons in […]

The national power grid has collapsed twice within the last 24 hours causing blackouts in most states across the country. A daily report from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) confirmed a system collapse on […]

That the Nigerian Police Force is about the worst national police formation in the world is no longer news. What is perhaps news is that they are digging deeper into infamy on a daily basis. […]

My reading of the 252 page book of Lt. Gen. Ishaya Rizi Bamaiyi (rtd.) titled “VINDICATION OF A GENERAL” led me to one conclusion. That the Nigerian Army has not been combat ready from the […]

One of the cheering news that came from the Nigeria Police Force last week was the redeployment of its head of the Complaint Response Unit, Assistant Commissioner of Police Abayomi Shogunle, to a rural region […]

(gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665) The way it stands today, it is as if our country’s sanity – not unity – is tested at every passing moment. I choose not to pussy-foot the familiar unity question, because I […]