Issues/Policy

“Go to Court”, three words sentence, advisory as it innocuously appears or if you like a command usually given by rogue politicians to their victims of rigging, and generally majority of politicians in Nigeria are […]

When the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused […]

It is just as well that less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari denied that he instructed the Attorney-General of the Federal and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Governor of the Central […]

On Sunday, the US Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) jointly announced a package of actions to stop the turmoil from Silicon Valley Bank’s insolvency and Signature Bank’s near collapse. As details […]

Forget that he could not pronounce Eko e dide! Loosely transplanted to mean: Lagos get up. This summarises the incongruence in the philosophy underpinning his political sojourn. It is axiomatic to say: Lagos no dey […]

Madiba Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s views on Ubuntu are useful for the clarification on the term. Of course, such attempt to explain the concept of Ubuntu further should raise questions on the relevance […]

Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election in which a former two-term governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, emerged as the president-elect, may have come and gone. But the lessons from […]

For the third time since 1999, I voted at a general election on February 25 and did so without much hassle. I knew my candidates would lose at the unit where I voted, but that […]

Cleveland, a city in Ohio, USA, was long regarded as the sufferhead among American cities. Bearing on its big head the weight of an unfortunate nickname – The mistake on the lake – Cleveland shares […]

A critical element of the 2023 general elections is the intensity and electricity of the participation of Nigerian youths in the process. Statistics may not fully capture or contextualise youth involvement in the 2023 national […]

Every presidential candidate in the recently concluded presidential election – save probably for Omoyele Sowore – promised to remove Nigeria’s overhanging fuel subsidy, which takes anything between N4 trillion to N6 trillion of the country’s […]

After the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, now heavily disputed, Nigeria goes to the polls again on March 18, 2023 to elect Governors and members of state legislatures in 28 out of 36 […]

Despite the shortcomings of the 2023 presidential election, which were seemingly deliberately created by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the election has given some power to the masses and created some fear in Nigerian politicians. […]

Outside of politics and the 2023 elections, Lagosians especially have been gripped, in the past month, by the sordid drama over the death of Ms Whitney Adeniran, a pupil of Chrisland High School, Ikeja. The […]

Long before the ethnopolitical madness for power started in 1998, which has taken an untoward dimension in recent years, Chief Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi sang a song, ‘Lagos state is the place for all…’ I am […]

A public protest has three main objectives, namely, to a) air in the public space grievances or wrongs done to groups of persons b) seek public sympathy for the cause for which the protest becomes […]

The theme for International Women’s Day, 2023, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” recognises the powerful potential that digital entrepreneurship presents for women. Whether it is in new business opportunities, in making gains in […]

In most of such cases of signing results under duress, the judiciary has chosen to play dumb by ruling that the law says the results read by the returning officers stand, thereby siding with forces […]

The last presidential poll had the trappings of an epic battle. The three top contenders namely, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Wazirin Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and […]

Thursday, March 9, 2023, was a sad day in Lagos. As early as 7:45am there was a breaking news which shook many Lagosians to their marrow, especially families of Lagos state staff members. The tragic […]