Issues/Policy

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 […]

Yes, Abuja is winding up, as it does every four or eight years. If you look closely and listen intently, you can smell it. Abuja is a work of fiction. Ever since the Federal Government […]

By the time you read this, our public universities that our federal government’s intransigence caused to be closed for well over seven months may have been opened or are about to be opened. Those who […]

Only a quarter of the eight million Palestinian people live in the Palestine; one million in Gaza, 750,000 in the occupied West Bank and 250,000 inside Israel. The rest, or over six million, are forced […]

Dear Mr Bola Tinubu I am writing you regarding your recent comment about church rats and our penchants for eating poisoned Holy Communion. Usually, we, the congregation of active, reformed, and retired church rats ignore […]

Two recent events; first, the hard hitting remarks of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the 14th Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, at the just concluded Kaduna Investment Summit, as […]

We stepped out of the airplane into the discombobulation of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. The ten-hour flight from Washington DC kept me wide awake with nagging thoughts about Nigeria’s next presidential election. Will […]