Issues/Policy

Nigeria, the giant of Africa indeed! As we celebrate another Workers’ Day on May 1, 2019, with more or less zero improvement from the last celebration of Workers’ Day, one must wonder what exactly the […]

It is no longer news that President Mohammadu Buhari has embarked on a 10 day “private visit” to the UK without informing the National Assembly and delegating presidential powers to the Vice President. Expectedly, this […]

Dr. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, may indeed be a typical old school civil servant whose noble qualities include being a stickler for law and order, processes and procedure and, above all, unalloyed […]

Nigeria’s King of the novel, Professor Chinua Achebe wrote ‘Anthills of the Savannah’ after a twenty-one year writing hiatus. It was a Locus Classicus on a satire against military dictatorships. It was the inevitable clash […]

Kidnappers on Monday afternoon blocked the Kaduna – Abuja Express way forcing several motorists to abandon their vehicles and head for nearby bushes to avoid being abducted. Members of the Police Anti-Terrorism Joint Squad during […]

The one we knew was the petite David who turned the table against the Goliath of infernal godfathers in Anambra. They thought they had his hands tied with a dark oath at the Okija altar. […]

From Lagos to Sokoto, from Bayelsa to insurgency-ravaged Maiduguri and Damaturu, workers may lament their deteriorating conditions today as they mark the 2019 edition of May Day.The celebration of the 2019 edition of Workers Day […]

At a recent event in Lagos, The Bullion Lecture, organized by the Centre for Financial Journalism, the President and Chief Executive of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Professor Benedict Okey Oramah, made a moving presentation […]

These findings that the autonomy or independence of the Electoral Commissions and National Security Agencies matter, have also been replicated in the Electoral Integrity Project undertaken by Pippa Norris, Thomas Wynter and Sarah Cameron in […]

Except the Federal Government does something urgently about the ravaging insecurity in the country, sending corps members on national service from their home states to a ‘foreign’ unfamiliar state to do the service is tantamount […]

In 2017, the East African country of Kenya rewrote Africa’s democratic history. In what demonstrated patriotism at the highest level and judicial precedence which will continue to guide other African democracies on the path of […]

The 2019 gubernatorial election in Oyo State (in South-West Nigeria) had more than a phase; it moved from being political to personal, comic and petty. I am yet to see an election more monetized than […]

Once upon a time elections were simple selections by consensus. There was no question of unsuitability, unpopularity or rigging because it was as all-inclusive as possible for the community-based constituencies and consensus was unanimously accepted […]

The willingness to sacrifice one’s interests and comfort for the benefit of others is no doubt the hallmark of a selfless leader.Of course, leaders abound in Nigeria but she sure has honest and altruistic political […]

Zelensky has the opportunity of bringing peace to his country, fighting entrenched corruption, rebuilding the economy in the interest of the poor and running a government centred on Ukraine’s national interests. Ukrainians who went to […]

These kinds of comments from Nigerian leaders are reflective of the quality of their thought processes. The comments signpost a decadence of mind that even a degree in Oxford cannot disinfect. They find anchor in […]

There will always be disputes on boundaries in this country but the Mamman Nasir panel tried the best it could in reducing these conflicts. In the end, the panel recommended the establishment of a National […]