Issues/Policy

Who among homo-sapiens has no story to tell? What living being has not experienced the bad or good weather of life? Any man or woman who claims to have no sweet or sour story to […]

The new appellation and euphoric praise name by which high-profile governorship candidates were addressed by their supporters during the campaign and voting period is the word, ‘incoming’. Now the governorship elections, including that of the […]

For some time now, motorists have been passing through hell as a result of the ongoing reconstruction work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Last Wednesday, the entire stretch of the road was locked down for hours […]

Kolade Johnson, victim of the fatal shooting in the Onipetesi area of Lagos, might have survived the incident if help had come his way early enough. The deceased, who was watching an English premiership match […]

Death eath makes mockery of life, and of all achievements. Death is always a tragedy since it puts a finality to existence, and ceases all possibilities. The death of a terminal patient, a loved one, […]

The lessons of Nigeria’s Elections 2019 to which I refer here are not abstract lessons-in-general or lessons-for-all-time, but concrete lessons that emerged for the use of political forces on the Nigerian Left that see the […]

What a country is our country, this country that is our country. As I write, I wonder who we are as a people and as human beings civilized enough to live in our part of […]

Dear governors, Permit me sirs, to lay the foundation of this letter with literature because as a literary person, critical thinking is my forte. The place of letter writing in the annals of human relationships […]

Whenever trigger-happy cops kill an innocent citizen, they have only given expression to the adversarial relationship they have cultivated with the rest of the citizens. They have not done anything different from what others who […]

Blow-blow burst, penny go. Another day, come and buy. Tell your teacher you are a fool. If you take am buy ball, e go belleful you… hahahahhaha.’ So, we sang as little children when our […]

In a Report titled The Misery Index 2018 authored by Dr. Steve Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Nigerians have been labelled the sixth most miserable people in the world. The misery […]

The old squirrel, according to an ancient Edo riddle, habitually sips from the gourd of iniquities. His lineage is forbidden from eating the palm kernel near its warren. But out of ancestral curse, the duplicitous […]

I hereby bring to the notice of the general public the flagrant and raw deployment of state apparatus by the present government against two law-abiding citizens, Mr Monday Ubani and Hon Christopher Enai, using the […]

Right now, there is too much speculative reshuffling and reorganisation within the police, and it is not resonating with the poorly trained men at the bottom of the pile, who mostly think about how to […]

Jelani Aliyu is an engineer and automobile designer. He is celebrated for the design of Chevrolet Volt, an auto brand of General Motors. And he is from Sokoto state. He is one of the Nigerians […]

Only four elected Nigerian leaders have had the opportunity of presenting lists of Ministers after re-election. They are Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966), first and only Prime Minister of Nigeria, President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari […]