Issues/Policy

Unlike the situation in 2015 when he was in no hurry to assemble his team many months after being sworn in, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to constitute a new cabinet sooner than later. His […]

Relatives of people who died in a Boeing crash voiced anger yesterday after the aircraft maker admitted that it had known for a year that a safety circuit was not working on its new 737 […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is in the throes of a dilemma. It does not seem to know how to extricate itself from the server mess in which it is currently embroiled. The chairman […]

Of all the tributes poured on Justice Mamman Nasir, the late Galadima of Katsina, who died on April 13 this year at 89, his work in solving boundary problems was overlooked. Yet his contribution in […]

I was booked for a 6pm flight on Arik to Port Harcourt. We passed the nearly completed beautiful road to the International Airport and then paid the toll gate on the way to the domestic […]

The recent revelation by Mr Ike Chioke, the Group CEO of Afrinvest Ltd, on the high-level remittances from Nigerians in the Diaspora to the Country as compared with actual export proceeds from Oil and Gas […]

This year marks the 10th year since Abubakar Shekau took over the leadership of Boko Haram in 2009 and declared war on Nigeria. Many Nigerians cannot believe that this insurgency has been on for 10 […]

Recently, I had something that unsettled me. It was about a decision I had taken three years ago and now it had gone awry. Guilt-ridden and self-blaming, I stumbled into a thought-provoking narrative by David […]

One is an African (Liberian), the other is a South American (Brazil), and the other one is East European (Ukrainian). They are all democratically elected Presidents of their respective countries. More than that, they were […]

Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) Razzmatazz is the razzle-dazzle synonymous with showbiz. Showbiz is the umbrella under which the theatre, movies, television and music operate as one industry. Showbiz is make-believe. When two or more journalists come […]

Economic Renaissance by Henry Boyo lesleba@lesleba.com 08052201997 In an apparent admission of public rejection of lower naira denominations for daily transactions, the Central Bank of Nigeria has embarked on a project designed to mop up […]

Today, 105 years after creation, Nigeria has neither relinquished nor repudiated the pattern of internal disparities with which it was born. But the reason is no longer to be located in the fact that Nigeria […]

Even chronic pessimists know by now that Nigeria is in a state of complete war with herself. The only difference is that, unlike other wars with known and identifiable enemies, those who roll artillery tanks […]

The suffering of Venezuelans are real, and a quick fix to the country’s problem is desirable… Inviting the military as part of the solutions to these problems raises the important question of whether a democracy […]

Nigerian workers always posit that “their take-home pay does not take them home”. Such is the tale of the Nigerian worker – who lives miserly because he earns poorly. The Federal Government of Nigeria has […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is in the throes of a dilemma. It does not seem to know how to extricate itself from the server mess in which it is currently embroiled. The chairman […]

Immediately after the 2007 general election won by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the exiting President Olusegun Obasanjo and his political party organised an induction programme for all the newly-elected members of their party. Present […]