Issues/Policy

Over the weekend, precisely on Saturday, February 25, 2023, Nigerians finally trooped out to perform their civic duties to choose the next president and members of the National Assembly. The expectations were very high, mobilisation […]

The growth and expansion of independent broadcasting in Nigeria took root and was consolidated in the initial period of its existence after the sector was initiated during the tenure of the military presidency of General […]

It is a healthy phenomenon when people move a debate forward by civilly expressing their view. They don’t give vent to insults, thereby polluting a profitable conversation as some do. The former has an understanding […]

As the Russia-Ukraine war entered one year on February 24, it is clear from all indications that the conflict will not end soon. This does not augur well considering the enormous loss of lives, destructions […]

Nigeria is at the cusp of political transition. Millions of dispossessed Nigerians, who chafe and suffer under the weight of excruciating poverty caused by our political leaders’ maladministration, want a change for the better. They […]

History was made yesterday morning when Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State, was declared the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The coalition he husbanded so meticulously in 2014 has endured […]

he Conservative party’s 2019 manifesto promised to “end the blight of rough sleeping” by 2024; four years later the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the biggest year-on-year percentage increase since 2015. According to […]

President Biden recently declared in Warsaw that Russia’s war against Ukraine is a test for America and the world. But waning public support for Ukraine aid means that a war that Russia openly, proudly, repeatedly […]

In the eyes of the people, Labour Party won this election, and there is no better way to reciprocate the mandate given to them by working for the people. This time, representations at the National […]

Until we are able to stand for ourselves, and calmly evaluate which systems of government is good for us, we will probably flounder all over the place and continue to toxify our society. Somehow, the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had assured the country of its readiness to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the Election Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in the build-up to last Saturday’s presidential […]

Nigerian election outcomes are all too easy to discern. Once one side starts crying too loudly know it has lost. On the basis of that simple test, the poor imitation of a three-year-old’s tantrums by […]

The only real surprise from last Saturday’s presidential election was Labour Party’s Peter Obi’s magical win in Lagos, and other parts of the country. Obi was definitely bound to make some statement on Nigeria’s political […]

Those whose understanding of Saturday’s presidential election is that the Labour Party played the “spoiler” for the Peoples Democratic Party miss the significance of the moment. As of now, the PDP is effectively dead and […]

February 24, 2023 marked exactly one year since the Russian invasion of its south western neighbour, Ukraine, with proactive Belarusian support. The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, characterised it as a “special military operation” with the […]

I had two spells as a student at the University of Ilorin, abbreviated by us as ‘Unilorin’. True, our university started as a college under the University of Ibadan, (UI). We were in a hurry, […]

In the last instalment, I proposed to discuss the present-day arguments for the domiciliation of power in the north as well as the outcome of the February 25 elections. As I write the results of […]

A father-of-three has accused YouTube of gathering data on the viewing habits of up to five million British children under the age of 13. Duncan McCann, Head of Accountability at the 5Rights Foundation, says this […]

The less you say, the less risk you run of saying something foolish, even dangerous. In 1825 a new czar, Nicholas I, ascended the throne of Russia. A rebellion immediately broke out, led by liberals […]