Issues/Policy

According to the Federal Ministry of Power, Works & Housing, fifty four buildings collapsed in Nigeria within a period of five years (between 2012 and 2016). This is an average of more than ten buildings […]

Leah Sharibu has become a symbol of Nigeria in captivity. Yet, this powerful symbol is ignored. How does one explain the fact that in the latest scramble for Nigeria’s wealth that the 2019 elections were, […]

It has been said of Obafemi Awolowo, Western Nigeria’s first premier, like Roman Empire’s first emperor, Augustus Caesar, he was “an efficient organizer” and a “great builder” who struck several feats that have remained unmatched […]

I’m neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son. Yes, I’m not a pastor. But I have a message for Nigerian Pentecostal pastors. I’m here to warn you. The Lord is angry with you. If you […]

Penultimate weekend the east-central African nation of Rwanda marked 25th anniversary of the very worst man-made cataclysmic event in her national history — genocide anti-Tutsis. In April 1994 following the tragic crash of the presidential […]

Like a phoenix, the Arab spring rose from the brutal civil war in Syria to claim the thrones of two African Arab leaders; Omar El-Bashir of Sudan and Abdel Aziz Bouteflika of Algeria. In a […]

Mr. John Campbell, Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC., who was US ambassador to Nigeria from 2004 to 2007, immediately after the February 23, […]

News, last week, that some land-grabbers poisoned Opa Dam, the main source of water supply to the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife, made me sick to the marrows. What has taken […]

ENUGU – ALIGBO Development Foundation, ADF, has noted that the Igbo/Yoruba cooperation has become even more eminent now because it would help fasten the realistion of self-determination pursuits of most ethic nationalities in Nigeria. It […]

Economic Renaissance by Henry Boyo lesleba@lesleba.com 08052201997 The oppressive impact of the myriad charges on the transactions of every owner of a bank account in Nigeria was the subject of discussion in this column in […]

Over the weekend, the All Progressives Congress boldly claimed that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a citizen of Nigeria by birth and he […]

In his book, Business at the speed of thought, the software billionaire Bill Gates, wrote, ‘The best way to put a distance between you and the crowd, is to do an outstanding job with information […]

If one is asked to put a finger on two defining indices of Nigeria’s post-independence socioeconomic crisis, it is not difficult to identify youth unemployment and poverty as the core of the national malaise. While […]

Before 1914, the geographical space called Nigeria existed in bifurcation – the northern and southern protectorates. And before the British savaged and carved out the area for immanent exploitation, there were thriving kingdoms, ethnic groups, […]

We marked the World Water Day on March 22 with a damning statistic: over 60 million Nigerians do not have access to safe drinking water. In simpler English, they get their water from unhealthy sources, […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday gave insight into why Leah Sharibu, who was held-back by the Boko Haram Islamist sect over her refusal to denounce her Christian faith a year ago, was yet to be […]

The Federal Government’s announcement that it would undertake a gradual phase out of fuel subsidy, weekend, triggered panic buying of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, across some states of the federation. The […]