Issues/Policy

In furtherance to our letter submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on April 23rd, 2018, we emphatically and unequivocally call for the declaration of Nigeria as a terror […]

There’s so much happening economically in Nigeria recently that can potentially depress even the most thick-skinned business leader. It’s great we celebrated the improvement in our “ease of doing business” global ranking from 169th to […]

No, I don’t plan to run through the horrible events of the week that ended yesterday. If the headline sounds like a memo from NTA circa 1980, it’s because of the many ideas I had […]

I enrolled in college as an economics major, but sitting in my first economics course (microeconomics 101) I had a sense that I had made the wrong choice. But who gives up on the first […]

Chief Anthony Anenih, one of the most influential chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party from 1999 to 2016 who was widely-known as “Mr. Fix-It,” died last week, aged 85. A veteran of various political parties […]

For some time now, the nation’s landscape has been characterized by massive political activities. This is quite understandable as the much awaited 2019 national elections are just around the corner. By next February, the die […]

Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has said claim of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, would reduce fuel price to N90 showed […]

  A former lawyer to President Donald Trump of the United States (US), Michael Cohen, has claimed that Trump used racist language in several private conversations with him during the time he worked as the […]

We would not have given him the document if he didn’t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s demand the other day on Europe and America to help recharge Lake Chad is curious and uncalled. The nation should be tired of this request on the West for this technical and […]

“You won’t be allowed to board the airplane,” the check-in officer said matter-of-factly, hands spread apart, his facial expression revealing no mischievous intent. Although this reporter knew it was a lie told for the sole […]

In its political fight for 2019, the PDP is not relying on the big issues of the day – security, corruption and jobs but on small, distractive matters that take little or no account of […]

Physical, psychological, emotional, and verbal abuse is not tough love, it is a debasement of a growing human being. Raising children can be exhausting, but we cannot resort to brute and emotional cruelty to do […]

Beyond the warning alerts given by SON on the cancer-causing school uniforms made by China-based companies, there should be some draconian measures the government must take to ensure all-round safety of its citizens. One of […]

What is in a governor’s puny sense of self-esteem? It is in acquiring all the resources and influence to be enjoyed for a lifetime within the maximum period of eight years. He never cares about […]

Of two evils, choose neither —Charles Haddon Spurgeon (English Baptist preacher) 1834-1892 Now, it is certain that of the nearly 100 political parties asking Nigerians to vote for them in 2019, two are in the […]

The administrative capacity of Mallam El-Rufai has never been in doubt. In Kano, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has a Ph.D in Public Administration, his erstwhile Deputy Hafiz Abubakar is a professor of Biochemistry, while his new […]

Gbau gbau langbo aomobi ibon tindun Gbau gbau langbo aomobi ibon tindun K’olori dorie mu o, ka kiye s’ara Oro Nigeria yio kom bawa d’ogun -I.K Dairo 1967 The first generation of Nigeria musicians were […]

It’s a surprise that the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, is still standing. His appointment had been barely announced when some folks with very long memory of their […]