Issues/Policy

Is Onnoghen guilty? For the NJC and the courts, this is yet to be decided. But in the court of public opinion, he appears to have already answered ‘yes’. Too bad for a man who […]

“I like Chidiebere, candidate of the New Ideas Party. He is a great economist. He understands the dynamics of our problems and knows exactly how we can get out of them. What’s more, his track […]

There is no way Nigeria is returning to its past In this past three and a half years of the Buhari presidency, one, thankfully, has learnt, experienced and been part of quite a number of […]

The chilly politics of elections is fast reaching its crescendo. For the first time in Nigeria’s political history, the electioneering process is characterised with heavily demonetized campaigns even as players watch campaign spending with sullen […]

Life can be indeed paradoxical. So this government can be this swift and responsive to issues? This was what my bosom friend asked me when news of the arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria […]

Every four years in the Kogi East political space, those who live by holding onto power at the detriment of our people unfailingly come up with ethnic sentiments in order to garner political support and […]

Nigerian workers are among the most marginalised in the world today, with little or nothing to show for their efforts towards building a sustainable nation. If I may ask, when will Nigerian workers begin to […]

Tunde Odesola (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) As the lord of the deep, the whale needs no megaphone to announce its awesomeness. A lifespan of over 200 years qualifies the bowhead whale as the longest living animal on earth. […]

Objectively, there isn’t much difference, here, between this conceit of wishing positive outcomes into play and the more familiar cop-out known as “playing the ostrich”. Either way, the problem doesn’t go away. I’d wager that […]

“I like Chidiebere, candidate of the New Ideas Party. He is a great economist. He understands the dynamics of our problems and knows exactly how we can get out of them. What’s more, his track […]

There is nothing heartwarming about the expected arraignment, later today, of Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) on a six-count charge bordering on fraudulent asset declaration. […]

The Nigeria Police Force has filed a charge against Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, for alleged illegal possession of firearms. In the charge, which has been filed before the Federal High Court in […]

The planned arraignment of the highly revered Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Honourable Justice Walter Annoghen has understandably attracted mixed reactions across the country with some persons describing the move as outright witch hunt and […]

Introduction: The right to information is a component of the broader right to freedom of expression and of press enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1984(UDHR). Article 19 of the […]

The United States (U.S.), like a country under bombardment, scrambled its national security adviser, John Bolton and secretary of state, Mike Pompeo into the air. Their flights are taking them through the Middle East primarily […]

There is a raging controversy about the familial relationship between Amina Bala Zakari, a commissioner at Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and President Muhammadu Buhari. The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleges that […]