Issues/Policy

“….. 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 […]

Someone once defined politics as the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. The unpredictability of politics, and the cruelty of many politicians are factors that […]

For clarity, I shall outline a few areas where the tenure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has demonstrated that turning around the fortunes of Nigeria isn’t a job for one good man. […]

In the history of the Catholic Church which is almost as old as the history of Christianity itself, only a couple of Popes have resigned and only one Pope has actually quit. The rest have […]

Some of the top candidates who are refusing to debate amongst themselves have focused their attention on insulting their rivals and accusing them of having terrible histories of corruption. I don’t like the vile language […]

The full weight of the manipulative tendencies in our power sector finally dawned on me two weeks ago. I went to an Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) office to purchase a N10,000 worth of energy. […]

Anytime the legendary historical musings and opinions of Franklin Roosevelt about governance and politics come to mind, I get refreshed. The 32nd President of the United States was voted to power four times. He saw […]

Recently, a Nigerian made an analogy on twitter between the kind of president he wanted and the introduction of telecoms companies in Nigeria. Two worlds apart, right? But the online writer managed to make his […]

By the year 2020, every major institution of American culture had converted to the cult of identity. The virus of performative dogmatism, long incubated at the universities, suddenly spread with alarming rapidity, infecting news media […]

Going deep into the threshold of the average home in Nigeria, and how they have continued to trudge along amidst the various challenges and difficulties ascribed to the common man cannot be overemphasized, from the […]