Issues/Policy

In a world that celebrates individual achievements it is not a surprise that communitarian ethics should be disappearing. In a country where the faith of the daughter cannot save the father why would communal salvation […]

‘Cabinet Size and Factors Determining Number of Ministries’ (Adegoroye, 2015) Continued. Indonesia is an archipelago of 17,508 islands of which about 6,000 are inhabited by its 237.6 million people. The land area is 1,919,440 square […]

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth – Chief Seattle (1786 -1866), Suquamish and Duwamish leader. April 22 of every year is International Mother Earth Day, a day set aside […]

One of the resilient arguments against the establishment of state police is the retailing of the abusive power of the badge to governors. And really, this contention is germane if situated in the actualities of […]

World-renowned novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said she believes men should be feminist to correct the injustice of gender imbalance. She made the proposition when responding to questions from global lifestyle magazine, Marie Claire 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 […]

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 of our elite in the […]

Venezuela is being pushed towards anarchism. Through the use of sanctions, its populace is being forced to surrender. But the powerful will not always be victorious. Africans counsel that those being chased by the gods […]

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, […]