Issues/Policy

hen mineworkers took strike action in 1984 to save their industry from a government policy aimed at its total destruction, Margaret Thatcher was quick to refer to them and their families as the “enemy within”. […]

The pervasive deployment of money to influence the direction and outcome of elections in Nigeria has of recent, become a matter of grave concern. Political parties require funds in prosecuting their activities of voter education, […]

Late Thursday night, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection released its final report, a bulging 845-page account of a months-long effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In its […]

Capturing the essence of who you are has been difficult, in a world where fleeting accolades of men means more than the true affirmation. From your rise in 1982 you have always placed Nigeria 1st. […]

WHAT would make a single individual spend as much as N50billion to prosecute a governornship election in a financially struggling state like Osun? An Osun that is gasping for breath on the account of inccessnt […]

It is difficult to pinpoint one person, or one group, who must bear responsibility for Nigeria’s descent into the doldrums of poverty and underdevelopment since 1960. However, if what would undoubtedly be such a difficult […]

Here’s a modest proposal to Ahmed Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC): quit. My suggestion is bound to strike some as quixotic, perhaps even as sheer political theater. But be assured I’m […]

What will be in it for Nigeria if most of the voters in 2023 elections are multi-dimensionally poor and addicted to drugs? In other words, what can BVAS and other electronic devices deliver to us […]

In recent times, the critics of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, particularly, members of the opposition are in pitiable disarray probably because their reservoir of political ammunition is empty. The 2023 presidential struggle falls within the subject […]

When I hear the name Nigerian Immigration, my first thought is, Oh Dear! The notion of renewing my Nigerian international passport elicits feelings of dread, despair, exasperation and exhaustion. This means I’m already stressed out […]

My dear friend and brother Dr. Reuben Abati, I watched you and a colleague of yours by the name of Mr. Rufai Oseni interview a young man by the name of David Hundeyin, who apparantly […]

The most abused phrase in Nigeria today is justice, equity, and fairness. Most of our politicians can’t make a complete sentence today without adding justice, equity, and fairness. The way the phrase is being bandied […]

“Elections, unfortunately, can only determine who has the most support among the candidates and not who is the most competent of them all. We have no way of knowing who will do well. Performance is […]

The recent announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the introduction of newly redesigned N200, N500 and N1, 000 banknotes, has political and economic implications. Like a thunderbolt, the move has jolted many […]

The National Grazing Reserve Council Bill before the National Assembly came to the fore as a result of the farmers/ Fulani herdsmen conflict ongoing in Benue State an other parts of the country. The crisis […]

At the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv recently, I watched a performance of an opera by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. The work, charming and comic and an escape from the grimness of Russian […]

abati1990@gmail.com A week ago, President Muhammadu Buhari travelled out of the country on a two-week medical vacation. He is expected back in the country next week. As has been the pattern since he assumed office […]

History may not have been kind to Nigeria and Africa but the future may be kind if we consciously embrace a new form of media and information literacy and tell our stories in ways that […]