Issues/Policy

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 […]

From the vote-buying and voters intimidation scenarios of Ekiti and Osun to the trashing of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in Lagos State by the structures that enthroned him and the eventual emergence of party torchbearers at […]

The latest genocidal hunt down of minority Muslims of the shia classification makes you wonder if Nigeria is earth’s window to Hell. First Let Me Tell You About Our President Buhari is a coward. Nigeria’s […]

Whether Yusuf is culpable or not, members of the NHIS board, the HMOs and some of the revolting staff of the NHIS may have dirty hands that would be better protected if Yusuf is disgraced […]

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 […]

I read with utter disgust the many outpourings of Atiku Abubakar’s critics to the effect that he is corrupt simply because of his inability to travel to America and I am sure that every well-meaning […]

It is an established principle that the status to belong to a particular nation either by birth or by a legal relationship between an individual and a state is termed nationality. However, in recent time, […]

A lot of pushing back is required from the apparatchiks of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, if it must avoid the coming to pass of the grim prophecy of one of its own. Senator […]

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 forefront: […]