Issues/Policy

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 […]

Some months back, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, posted a tweet pleading with his supporters to let him answer direct attacks from his co-contestants. Then, other candidates, especially Bola Tinubu of […]

Many who quote the Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, still love ‘the other tribe’ narrative regarding Nigeria’s trouble. It’s a contradiction because the sage they quote said Nigeria’s trouble is leadership. He means the elite – […]

Bespectacled Ola Rotimi, the late playwright, left a brilliant play titled ‘The gods are not to blame’. It has been staged many a time in Nigeria and overseas. It was years back made into a […]

Rufai Oseni, Arise TV’s Morning Show co-anchor, is popularly known for his utterances and sometimes talking down on his guests. Truth be told, his unconvincing pseudo-intellectual posturing is sure not doing him any good. His […]

The alarm on vested interest’s move against the electoral umpire’s boss should be taken seriously, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Going by the saying that there is no smoke without fire, the alarm raised by Ikenga Ugochinyere, […]

As I was concluding this article, I read of the killing of one of the 23 rescued persons while on his way home to Kebbi, during another kidnap attack. What does that tell us? The […]

What do you mean I must fill out the Confessional Form? The fact that many denominations now make it a biennial requirement because of the scandals surrounding some religious leaders doesn’t mean anything. I have […]

In order not to sound like a killjoy, let me begin by congratulating all the distinguished citizens of Nigeria, and “Friends of Nigeria,” who were decorated with national honours of various categories on Tuesday this […]

This is what a collapsing NHS looks like. Each metric is worse than the last, every health professional I meet is stuck for words. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen in my career,” says […]

On Monday, Russian missiles scorched a children’s playground in Kyiv that my family calls “our playground,” leaving behind a gaping crater. Later, people gathered to take photos of the rocket’s footprint in the upturned soil, […]

Lately, the INEC Chairman Prof Mammod Yakubu publicly promised that notwithstanding the gargantuan challenges facing the commission, it would conduct free and fair elections and deliver electoral justice in 2023. “Only the votes cast by […]

The number of young Nigerians leaving the country lately is mind-blowing. You could be chilling with a close pal on Tuesday, and boom, he has relocated to the United Kingdom the night after without you […]

More than a century after it was taken away from the African Kingdom of Benin and kept at Jesus College, Cambridge, Okukor, a bronze stature of a cock, finally made its way back home to […]