Issues/Policy

This is another time for me to speak to the powers that be, specifically to the elites in northern Nigeria who don’t appear to understand the times in the country and indeed the world today. […]

When people talk about the challenges facing Nigeria, politics usually comes first. They talk about bad leadership, corruption, elections and power struggles among politicians. These issues are real and serious. But beneath all of them […]

There is talk that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s, Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, is defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC. If he does, he will leave only Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde […]

This is the concluding part of the piece which from last week continues the narrative of how Nigeria, just five years after independence, was asked to host the Commonwealth Conference to find a solution to […]

When six states in Nigeria’s south-west zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to confront social ills spreading across the region, they weren’t reinventing the wheel, despite the political […]

For the past week, Al Jazeera’s Head to Head interview with presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala has dominated social media in Nigeria. As a communications professional who preps senior executives for high-stakes interviews like this, it […]

The statement by Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, that we are brothers, that you are peaceful, and that we should negotiate with you, prompted this letter. I struggled with greeting you as “Dear bandits” hence […]

Dialogue With Nigeria By AKIN OSUNTOKUN Nine months to the January 2027 D Day general elections, this electoral cycle is distinguished by the poverty of the opposition platform. It was predictable. The moment they could […]

I agree entirely with President Tinubu’s position that he should not be blamed for the recent wave of defections into the APC. Come to think about it. Did the President compel anyone to join his […]

In June 2005, the Paris Club of creditors announced a deal granting Nigeria “60 per cent cancellation of its Paris Club total debt stock based on December 2004 figures.” It was a culmination of a […]

On Friday, January 14, 1966, there was a night party at 11 Thompson Avenue, residence of Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari. It was to celebrate because he had remarried, his first wife having been shot dead. Wining, […]

This article offers a trenchant analysis of the economics of politics as practised in our clime using the parable of the knife and yam. The battle for 2027 has ignited a strategic recalibration. The APC, […]

Public debate is healthy for democracy. However, when discussions about economic policy drift away from verifiable facts, it becomes necessary to restore clarity. Recent remarks by former minister Rotimi Amaechi suggesting that Nigeria’s new tax […]

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three rogue states that have formed an Alliance of Sahelian States, AES, to resist external pressure from ECOWAS on military rule – have just won the biggest diplomatic jackpot […]

Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja A university Professor of Political Science, Salisu Usman, has tasked the federal government and National Assembly to initiate and review the constitution as part of efforts to curb hydra-headed corruption across […]

As Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, continues his long-standing attempts to wrestle his embattled former protégé (Sim Fubara, the Rivers State Governor) to the ground, I find myself mystified. Why? Most of the Rivers people […]

My fellow countrymen and women are surely in for a very rough ride along a very rough, bad road that leads to nowhere through a wilderness created and sustained by politicians and civil servants. You […]

For Nigeria to build cities that can stand proudly beside Dubai, Cape Town, Toronto, or Singapore, our democracy must evolve beyond the perpetual recycling of politics into a governance system capable of birthing and sustaining […]

Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com We are aware that Section 39(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) (the Constitution), guarantees the right to freedom of expression, but, still, it is discouraging, and can […]