Issues/Policy

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 […]

The tragedy of our nation is that with the derailment of our political socialisation process by misguided military adventurers, our youths and compatriots below 50 years of age never knew we once had an organized […]

Celebrations at the palace of the Obong of Calabar, Édidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V, following his dethronement by the Supreme Court last Friday, caught the attention of curious Nigerians. Most are oblivious to the interesting […]

…the frontrunners are also becoming desperate to get as many groups and voters generally to themselves. This is further exacerbated by our agelong divisive issues of ethnicity and religion, which are rearing their heads again. […]

ON the 14th of April 2014, 276 students were abducted from the Chibok high school in Bornu state. Though some escaped while a few others were rescued, dozens are still unaccounted for eight long years […]

The hustle and bustle of life. The rush and rustle in human existence. But why do human beings get immersed in the hustle, bustle, rustle, and rush of life? I know why. It’s a strife […]

Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese footballer, as a person is not in focus here. The arguments that I imagine have followed a mistake he made are. It serves as a backdrop to an interrogation of the […]

Nigerian policy makers and implementors love fiction and we as citizens play along. I just remembered that our next census is going to be in April, immediately after the elections in February and March. If […]

Is anybody still taking the G5 governors seriously? I mean does anyone still believe that this gang can strike and cause a political tsunami of some sort? If there is anyone still expecting anything ‘ghen […]

We’re good Europeans at last. Nearly seven years after we voted to leave, Britons are finally doing their bit for the European Union. Diligently and with dogged devotion to duty, we are strengthening the ties […]