Issues/Policy

On Friday, January 25, 2019, the President of Nigeria , Muhammadu Buhari, suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Nkannu Samuel Onnoghen from office, and immediately administered the judicial oath of office to the […]

The second day of the second week of December found me in the Land Use Tribunal office of Lagos State. It was to honour an invitation—or a summons—sent to me. The office is on the […]

What was Oby Ezekwesili’s agenda? What was her interest? And what was her endgame? A few weeks to the general election, Ezekwesili woke up marketing the illusion that she was “Esther”; the destined liberator of […]

The Justice Walter Onnoghen case is compelling me to think, contemplate and dwell further on the question of patriotism in our country. And we may begin by asking some simple but fundamental questions. What is […]

How one wishes our citizens were as excited and committed in ensuring the accountability of politicians as they are of getting them elected into various offices. There are not a few who could be killed […]

A letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari by former president Olusegun Obasanjo where he alleged that the government was planning to rig the forthcoming general election, has elicited several reactions. On Tuesday, a Twitter user, […]

The world celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr who was a force for racial and societal equality and cohesion and is an enduring symbol of humanity at its best and most noble. His […]

Dr. Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate, is not a candidate in the next governorship election in Kwara State, but it is his election. This is one election that would determine his future and […]

Have you ever given a thought to this—that for sleeping peacefully in your home, someone is in the dark forests taking the bullets for your sake? Has it ever occurred to you that dead at […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the minimum wage bill to the national assembly after its approval by the national council of state. Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly affairs, said […]

I read with sufficient vexation a statement credited to the presidential candidate of the PDP Atiku Abubakar who gave a baseless excuse in support of his decision to boycott the BON/NEDG presidential “debate”, claiming that […]

Dear Sir, How delighted I am to write you today cannot be expressed in words totally. I write with the hope that this meets you well and communicates the plight of the average Nigerian student. […]

Fellow Nigerians, greetings from Washington. After being banned from entering the U.S. for 12 years, I finally made a “triumphant” entry and shamed the “e-rats” and APC trolls. I even slept at the Trump Hotel, […]

Dear Sir/ Madam, I was arrested at some minutes before 8 am today at some distance from under bridge at CMS bus stop for not using the pedestrian bridge. The Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corp […]

Imo, like every other state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has just three senatorial districts of unequal delimitations namely; Imo West (Orlu Senatorial zone), Imo East (Owerri senatorial zone) and Imo North (Okigwe Senatorial […]

The thickest cloud hanging over the candidacy of the presidential nominee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, had been that he could not set his foot in the American soil […]

On that faithful day, September 18, 2018, I had a fairly long phone discourse with ordinary Ahmed Musa, the popular Presenter on Brekete Family Human Rights Radio. I wanted to hear straight from him about […]

The United Nations said on Friday it was “extremely alarmed” by the forced return by Cameroon of thousands of refugees to north-east Nigeria, where Boko Haram Islamists pose a continuing threat to civilians. “This action […]

It matters, therefore, that invited to adjudge the suitability of different individuals for the office of president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we should place great store on their respective understanding of the problems […]

It would therefore be more practical to consider a different approach and re-design of the privatisation model for Yola DisCo to achieve a successful re-privatisation. Breaking up Yola DisCo into several DisCos along state boundaries, […]