Issues/Policy

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 […]

In other parts of the world, you cannot gain the heroic status unless you did something really noble and outstanding, and mostly in the service of humanity. But not Nigeria. Here, one could be a […]

The administration of our airports and seaports has been built around mind-boggling corruption, perpetrated by petty profiteers and major criminal syndicates alike. The bubble of corruption is so thick and resistant to change that any […]

Can there be anything private about a public person? Can a public figure announce to the public he’s using public funds for private ends? Was there more to the trip? Can a public office holder […]

In all, for Nigeria to achieve its true potential in Information and Communications Technology development and performance, a new and fresh raft of thinking, policy initiatives and investment push needs to be unveiled that consolidate […]

Nigeria’s tertiary education system is falling apart and everything is being blamed for that – from the government’s inability to fund universities to failure to grant them autonomy. Beyond that, the quality of teachers is […]

About the middle of 1985, the tendency to which I belonged in Nigeria’s Marxist Left met somewhere on the campus of the former University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. We met to […]

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life – John F. Kennedy. Renew your youth as you share the Good Times together – […]

If the senate really needed unimpeachable answers to the nation’s security questions, it only demonstrated another case of its accustomed dilettantism when it summoned the acting Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu. Latching on to […]