Issues/Policy

(This is the second part in a series to reivew the National Health Act. Read the first part here.)  The failure by government to implement existing laws and policies is one of the major problems of […]

As we count down to Nigeria’s next general election which is 80 days away, I took it upon myself to unravel the mystery of the country’s electoral albatross and found out that legally, the framers […]

Even with crude oil price selling above the budget benchmark of $51 per barrel, the greatest risk to the 2018 budget is the significant shortfall in government actual receipts. As disclosed in the recently published […]

In a jingle that he produced ahead of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, a very close friend and confidant, but now the late Architect Sola Olugbesan, had said that Nigeria was “On the march […]

I read the investigative report of Samson Folarin in The PUNCH on “Visa-seeking Nigerian students lament sad experience at US embassy”. The major complaint is the refusal of student visa for a majority of applicants […]

Nigerians are the unkindest set of people on earth when it comes to dealing with each other. In fact, I unhesitatingly declare that Nigerians hate each other with an uncommon hatred. Look at it this […]

When governorship campaigns begin across the country on December 1, some campaigns will attract greater attention than others, and some governorship candidates will be more magnetic than others. In Lagos State, the country’s former capital […]

Following the Nigerian Civil War between 6 July 1967 to 15 January 1970, the Supreme Military Government under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon launched its post-war 3Rs (Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction) agenda. This agenda […]

“Iya Kabiru must be the luckiest woman in Nigeria today” “Who is that? I don’t know anybody so-called” “You don’t know Iya Kabiru? But you know Baba Kabiru?” “Do they know me?” “This is the […]

I pledge to Nigeria my country, to be faithful, loyal and honest. To serve Nigeria with all my strength. To defend her Unity and uphold her Honour and Glory, So help me God. (The Nigeria […]

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. So says the English Nobleman, Lord Acton, Member of the British Parliament, 1865-1886. Spare a thought for the Owelle, Rochas Okorocha, the flamboyant Governor of his own special fiefdom […]

Last week’s reported attack on the 157 Military Task Force Battalion in Metele, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists shook Nigerians to their bones. The reason for the shock was because of both the high […]

Nigeria’s debt stock increased by three per cent from the N21.68tn recorded in December 2017 to N22.4tn recorded in December 2017 and to N22.2tn ($73.21bn) at the end of June 2018. The Director-General, Debt Management […]

“There was no file I treated that must not first pass through him (Oyetola) before getting to me. He is a major contributor to the success of this administration. He is not going to be […]

There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women —Kofi Annan (1938-2018), former UN Secretary-General. I am among millions of Nigerians who can’t wait for the day God will bless our […]

But, nearly always, a Panglossian outlook means that our budgets will be underachieved annually. And in the present case, just about every revenue line fell short of expectations in the January-August period. That the Buhari […]

Ikeogu Oke Last week, a certain friend, a northerner, mentioned to me that some djinns had – or have – been dangling on an imaginary pendulum swinging across our political landscape. To our interlocutor, who […]