Issues/Policy

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 […]

In the Biden administration’s latest reckless move to promote abortion on demand, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formally eliminated its rules against sending DIY abortion drugs through the mail. For the first […]

Our tall, angular president with an aloof carriage and an air of a pious recluse afforded us in his eighth decade a rare glimpse into his human interior. Not that we have not seen some […]

The last couple of weeks have witnessed a flurry of monetary policy activities that appear drastic and seem informed by a vision beyond what the ordinary mind might see. These policies and the ensuing activities […]

This Christmas, I am happy to congratulate the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) on opening of the Second Niger Bridge (SNB). To be sure, the project is not completed, which might explain why he […]

The much anticipated US-Africa Leaders Summit has been held in Washington, DC from December 13 to 15. As expected it drew considerable media attention. Coming eight years after the first summit was held in 2014, […]

As Qatar 2022 kicked off, Arabophobics went on overdrive with unsavoury stories about the host country. The stories ranged from deaths recorded during the construction of the various football facilities to ‘human rights’ (read: gay […]

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 […]