Issues/Policy

My attention was drawn to Abimbola Adelakun’s back page column published in The Punch of Thursday, April 18, 2019, in which she criticised the University of Ibadan and vilified its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abel Olayinka, over […]

I humbly appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to kindly reconsider the condition of the sacked staff of the defunct Air Nigeria (Virgin Nigeria). The Chairman of the aviation company sacked all the staff on the […]

As a boy growing up in Anambra State, we had no need for parks, recreational centres and cemeteries. Every compound was a park or recreational centre because it was large enough to be used as […]

Lord Fredrick Lugard, a one-time governor general of Nigeria, didn’t get the consent of the people(s) of Nigeria before he cobbled the northern and southern protectorates together. And, his wife, Christine Shaw, christened the geographical […]

Following submissions made by the legal team of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Tribunal that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, […]

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not Niger Republic in West Africa. Saudi Arabia sits on top oil fields which are the envy of many nations and their rulers are accorded respect no-end as a […]

Some presiding officers in Borno and Yobe states say they transmitted results of the February 23 presidential election to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The All Progressives Congress (APC) had tackled […]

Zamfara bloody gold miners’ war of ex generals and politicians is a threat to stability and development. More than 5,000 people have been killed in 5 years. Federal Government suddenly woke up to ban illegal […]

It was in my first year in the university that I was formally introduced to African stories in the written tradition after my mother had taught me some tales about the crafty and cunning tortoise […]

The penchant to politicize national tragedies has reached alarming proportion in our dear nation. Could it be a hangover of the 2019 election or a build up to the 2023 change of baton? Does the […]

Whatever their merits, none of these discussions (especially the new ones) around how best to structure poverty intervention programmes will make the grade in our space until we have solved the problem of who is […]

Senator Adeyeye says Nigeria’s Constitution is the problem with the country. Is this true? I very much doubt it. Usually, lawyers are the ones who think this way, but it is said that if your […]

was up before dawn this morning, preparing for our first service of Easter. This meant that, around the same time as bombs were going off in churches in Sri Lanka, I was reading a passage […]

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), the chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), in this interview, speaks on the cycle of corruption in Nigeria, the anti-graft war in the judiciary and the need for youths to […]

The point of departure for our Easter reflection this year 2019, is from the following passage of St. John’s Gospel: “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say: Father, save me from this hour? […]

By Olusegun Adeniyi, Email: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com Two years ago, following the convocation ceremony of a private university where 188 students graduated with first class degrees, there was an online discussion on the lack of quality control […]

There is a connection between those engaged in illegal mining activities in Zamfara State and marauding bandits who have become thorns in the flesh of the ordinary folk in the rural areas of the state. […]

censoj@gmail.com; 08127235995 Transparency and accountability are key issues in the reform of any governance system. This is more so in systems that relate to revenues, expenditures and how public resources are managed. Again, there cannot […]

(tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) Although the laws of the jungle are written in cold blood, they are laws, anyway. The animal that obeys the laws of the jungle is less likely to fall quick prey to the prayer […]