Issues/Policy

President Donald Trump said he will scrap a constitutional guarantee to citizenship for anyone born on US soil in a headline-grabbing move bolstering his anti-immigration platform a week before midterm elections. The surprise announcement in […]

Adedayo should know that political calculus is sometimes outside the ken and comprehension of forward writers like him. To attempt to reply to the pack of taradiddles in his article is to advance the devil’s […]

Kemi Adeosun resigned because she did not have a NYSC certificate and submitted instead a forged document. Buhari should resign because he does not have a school-leaving certificate and also submitted a forged document. Imagine […]

On Thursday, September 27, 2018, the Nigeria Labour Congress and other labour unions embarked on a nationwide warning strike to protest the non-implementation of a New Minimum Wage, after the 14-day ultimatum to the Federal […]

The statement by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State that the National Youth Service Corps scheme keeps alive the dreams of Nigeria’s founding fathers is false because no such dreams really ever existed and worse […]

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says the military had admitted losing President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate. In an interview with The Nation, Adesina was quoted as saying the issue is dead and those still discussing it are […]

Shortly before the 2003 governorship election, then Governor Olusegun Osoba had come on television to address the common grouse of Ogun State people against his four-year reign. He had apparently gleaned security report, which predicted […]

Don’t get married unless you are first married to Christ. Don’t get married to anyone who is not married to Christ. Jesus says to a woman by the well of Jacob: “You have had five […]

Senator Bukkar Abba Ibrahim, a three-term governor of Yobe – in two dispensations –and the senator representing Yobe East, has warned the APC not to expect victory in the North East as it did in […]

Dear reader, consider this thought-provoking quote: “From records by the United Nations Centre for Peace and Disarmament, I understand that there are approximately 500 million assorted firearms in West Africa. Of these 500 million, 70 […]

My most memorable Halloween story happened when I stayed home one year to give out candy to the goblins. Our own goblins were out with their Dad to canvass for treats… I looked up and […]

The human caravan is a reminder to America and most rich countries that centuries of dominating and exploiting other peoples, and the prevailing unfair globalisation, will have to be addressed in favour of the victims. […]

…like most of his friends, Fashawe advised Atiku not to rush out of Customs until he had served as director. But Mrs. Lydia Ijamolayemi, Fashawe’s mother, had a different opinion. She advised Atiku to leave […]

As a professional journalist and a regular columnist, one of the things I fear the most on the job is boxing myself into a corner. My philosophy of life is that no one is completely […]

The Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, COWLSO, was founded by the Late Mrs. Olufunmilayo Johnson, wife of the first Military Administrator of Lagos State, General Mobolaji Johnson. The objective was to bring wives […]

This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, […]

The deaths of and whispered deaths of people in far-away places in Kaduna can lead to the deaths of hundreds of people in the state capital. These have gone on for too long with no […]