Issues/Policy

FOR A MAN WHO WOULD NEITHER TOOT HIS OWN HORN NOR PAY A TRUMPETER TO SING HIS PRAISES, IT IS NOT SO SURPRISING THAT JOHN OBARO, NIGERIA’S FINTECH TYCOON, RECENTLY REACHED THE DIAMOND AGE OF […]

In a bid to garner public support ahead of the 2019 general elections, some opposition elements have descended to the level of peddling lies against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. While it appears that the reason […]

History holds three approaches. The good and fascinating approach. The bad and cruel approach and Infact the most irrational- conjectural approach. The topic of the essay looks gloomy because, the event of Olusegun Obasanjo as […]

In September 2015, the global community agreed at a United Nations general meeting to set up the 2030 global agenda as a call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all […]

The National industrial court has ordered the organised labour not to go ahead with the nationwide strike scheduled for November 6. At its sitting on Friday, Sanusi Kado, a judge, ruled that the planned strike […]

Over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, TheCable can report. This has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty — or below $1.90 a day — to […]

…we must be guided by the rule of law to reverse the fast deteriorating security situation posed by the current Shi’ite uprising. The continuous detention of Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in […]

It is indeed a welcome development that both chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly acted swiftly and in due consideration for the overriding interest of democracy by embarking on the review of the electoral bill for […]

Everybody who reads the newspapers, patronises the social media or watches independent television stations like CHANNELS or AIT is by now familiar with one ongoing national disgrace involving the Federal Ministry of Health, FMH. Nothing […]

Our records speak for themselves. At periodic intervals, solutions to our national problems flash across the radar. We latch on to it as only Nigerians can. I know of no nation that has done more […]

The news of the execution of Hauwa Liman, a humanitarian worker with the Red Cross by terror group Boko Haram, has left the country in shock. Her death casts a huge pall on the country’s […]

Arik Air has reassured its customers that its online portal is secure. This follows a report that data belonging to the airline’s customers between December 2017 and March 2018 was leaked. Justin Paine, head of […]

Our first encounter in 2000 was simply apocalyptic. The old cop was at his bewitching best – marshalling provincial tactics of intimidation and seduction. An editor with ThisDay then, I was in Benin City for […]

Now, it is certain that of the nearly 100 political parties asking Nigerians to vote for them in 2019, two are in the forefront: the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), governing at the centre and […]

The Shi’ites are not the problem. Impunity is. Protest is not the problem. Violence and trampling on the rights of others is. It is crucial in any democracy to have and preserve the right of […]

They met at Afor Nnobi last year during Ashaolu, the New Yam festival. They had gone on a couple of dates in Lagos and laughed a lot, especially when she made fun of him. Emeka […]

The destination of the Presidency will continue to be an issue in Nigerian politics, prompting here another look at the single-term proposal. Erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal of a single, six-year tenure for president and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly spoke on the phone with Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Miss Leah Sharibu, the 15-year-old girl captured by Boko Haram insurgents, who invaded her school in a Gestapo manner some months […]