Issues/Policy

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 […]

From a distance, I can see the impact of the university, and His Excellency Atiku Abubakar’s vision even more clearly. Being out of the country, I believe I now have more objectivity and a broader […]

Twenty-twenty-three election is four months away. Already, ugly has begun to show its hand – in violence. It is typical. Elections in Nigeria without the spectre of violence is like a hunchback man without the […]

Nigeria has no reason to be poor. The country’s human capital is one of the richest in the world. Nigerians are some of the most energetic go-getters in the world. The country is blessed with […]

Amidst prevailing weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, news of the ‘completion’ of the 2nd Niger Bridge was received with elation nationwide; nay the Southeast. As announced by the works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola, […]

The principled stance of many African countries on the Russian-Ukrainian conflicts has been a source of discomfiture to Ukraine and its Western sponsors. Ukraine had sought to persuade African countries to its side before the […]

If there’s one impediment which has, in the last decades since independence, mitigated the deep entrenchment of democratic institutions in Nigeria, it will be the dearth of true, progressive, and purposeful leadership. While the nation’s […]

Even for a country notorious for its lack of regard for data, available statistics have shown that Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major concern in Nigeria. Whether physical, emotional or sexual violence, women are, […]

This world is like a big football stadium. A throng of people come either as spectators, players, or referees. At the stadium, contests are conducted and games are played. Some players play fair; some play […]

This is not the best of times for Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation. Since the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, visited the Akure home of an erstwhile leader of the group, […]

This is a pertinent question in view of what I witnessed lately. In the event, I saw what the nation has done to the police. Two, I saw close-up what some members of the force […]

he term “ghostwriting” was coined by Christy Walsh, whose agency for years controlled the literary output of American sports celebrities from Babe Ruth onwards. The agency had a series of rules. One suggested that a […]

Question: Honourable Minister, what do you think as to; 1) the timing of this CBN policy and two as to whether or not this is something that needs to be done at this point. Answer: […]

When on 13 September, 2012, five Conservative MPs led by an Ivy League educated son of a Ghanaian immigrant, presented a treatise called “Britannia Unchained”, they warned that Great Britain should either adopt the free-market […]