Issues/Policy

It is arguably clear that we do not learn, as a people, from history – and we revisit our vomit every four years unfailingly. I recall an article on this column almost the same day […]

It is obvious that Prof. Yakubu rushed to announce Tinubu as the winner and also rushed to hand over the Certificate of Return to him to foist a fait accompli and a state of helplessness […]

The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. Prior to the elections, there had been a lot of trepidation, anxiety and tension across the country, including Ogun State. But the elections turned […]

Furthermore, Central Bank of Nigeria is now the sole authority for the determination of the exchange of rate of the naira from to time, using any mechanism it deems appropriate. The formulation of the country’s […]

Pick almost any poll over the past decade and you’ll find that voters always cite the economy as their top issue. Depending on the survey, the economy issue is also often more broadly defined in […]

In the UK, being a woman means you’re three times more likely than a man to have a mental health problem. Rates of self-harm among young women have more than tripled since the 1990s. For […]

A world without women is simply unthinkable. A world without healthy and thriving women is a world that is as sick as what we have today. With everything women bring to the table, it remains […]

When the storm of this general election is over, we shall be left with a few lessons. One is, never underestimate the will of a determined people. The other is, when the shepherd is ready, […]

Every successive government in Nigeria promises economic stability, unfortunately this objective is never or under achieved. It is not as if some of them never meant the promise they made, it is the fiscal and […]

‘The rule of law upon which our democratic governance is founded becomes illusory if the President of the country or any authority or person refuses to obey the orders of courts. The disobedience of orders […]

The ethnic irredentists who regularly punctuate the atmosphere with the dog whistle of Yorùbá ro’nú are not sincerely invested in the gains of contemplation. If they were, they would deploy the same gusto to call […]

…I am indeed concerned by the seething anger among the urban youths of Lagos and other state capitals, especially those who voted en masse for the Obi-Datti ticket, which is anchored on those three principles […]

BY REUBEN ABATI abati1990@gmail.com Nigeria held its Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023 across all the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. It was the most competitive […]

eniola.bello@thisdaylive.com 0805 500 1956 Sometime in May 2002, the City Colleges of Chicago presented the distinguished alumnus award to the then Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the nomination of his alma mater, the […]

As my dear readers will guess, the title for today’s piece is borrowed from David Yallop’s bestseller, but nonetheless controversial book with the same title. Whereas the meat of the book is aptly captured in […]

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 06 March, 2023) The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President […]

There was a time in Nigeria when Adams Oshiomhole was the symbol of Labour and the struggle for the emancipation of the citizenry. Time it was also when Lai Mohammed was the face of the […]

BY OLUWATOBI OJO On December 25, 2022, an assistant superintendent of police, Drambi Vandi, shot Bolanle Raheem, a seven-month-old pregnant lawyer, dead in Lagos. The senseless murder was not an isolated event of police brutality […]