Issues/Policy

Awarding these writers the Nobel Prize en masse, if not sequentially, is the least that Stockholm can do. For Osundare, Osofisan, Omotoso, Segun and Okediran, the honour will amplify their voices, and those of Soyinka, […]

The redesign of the Nigerian currency by the Central Bank of Nigeria is raising fundamental questions on the domain and objectives of monetary policy. This is coming against the background of the difficulties and challenges […]

As a student of development, I have patiently studied the trajectories of several nations — Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the US, the UK, Norway and some developing countries — and I have a confession to make […]

The views of three personalities and leaders on the above topic shape our discussion today . They are the Catholic Pope Francis , the outspoken Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El Rufai and the veteran […]

Last week, I opened my case for Nigerians not to vote for the All Progressives Congress this year. I refer to Nigerians who are led by reason, not sentiment; by the facts, not conjecture; by […]

That polymorphous word, cabal has cropped up again. And those deploying it know that there is power in that word — cabal. They have been manipulating the word to bend minds and win hearts in […]

It was with mixed feelings that Nigerians first received the news in October last year that the federal government was redesigning certain denominations of the nation’s currency. From December 15, 2022, the new notes would […]

First off, our Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) – soon to be known as Nigeria Revenue Service to capture the fact that revenue everywhere including online (not only inland) must be captured – must be […]

I find this article very interesting and quite relevant to our situation at this very challenging period of our national life when a sizeable number of our people may actually be depressed without knowing or […]

“….. the defences of the respondents are plagued with fundamental mortal flaws highly irreconcilable and unreliable, incapable of defeating the credible evidence tendered by the petitioner in respect of 744 polling units where over voting […]

In his book, “This animal called man,” published after her left prison in 1998, the former military Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, who later became a democratically elected president of Nigeria, concluded that man […]

So why does the CBN’s Monetary Policy Committee go through the motion of regularly tinkering with an orphaned instrument? As performance art, maybe. Something to engage in as passionately as others elsewhere in the profession […]

First, those of us who seek to mould public opinion and guilde public conscience, have a huge responsibility here to redouble our efforts in building confidence in the BVAS device. A critical appraisal of the […]

First off, our Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) – soon to be known as Nigeria Revenue Service to capture the fact that revenue everywhere including online (not only inland) must be captured – must be […]

abati1990@gmail.com Over the weekend, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decided to extend the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (popularly known as PVCs) by an additional week. The PVC collection that was […]

One challenge facing Nigeria is that of weak democratic culture. Many Nigerians feel that they are powerless before powerful politicians and political godfathers. They believe that only the politicians and the godfathers have the power […]

A Major Commentator on Minor Issues ABEOKUTA is the favourite place of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaban Borgu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to say important things importantly. It was there he made […]

Growing up, there was this expression we took both as a joke and a rebuke for one exaggerating: no one who examines him or herself has ever failed. This maxim filled the mind while hearing […]

Since he announced plans to redesign some denominations of the naira last October 26, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele has pursued it with a singlemindededness never before displayed by any public official […]