Issues/Policy

National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for South East, Deacon Austin Umahi has described Fashola’s statement of possible Power return to the South West in 2023 as an eye opener for the […]

I am a strong advocate for the unity of churches in Nigeria. This much I have highlighted in many forums in recent times. I am of the opinion that the church has a critical role […]

Natural disasters come with its attendant consequences. But the topic is how well the relevant authorities manage such disasters. Having stated the above, it is therefore desirable for me to travel memory lane on how […]

Predictably, the immanence of the 2019 general election is meeting Igbo in a serious quandary. The seriousness of that quandary is typified in the kind of inchoate double-speak and obfuscation that has hit Ohaneze; the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari who is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again, failed to provide his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as one of the requirements to […]

“All of you will prosper. That is the plan and purpose of the Buhari administration with the N10,000 Trader Moni collateral-free loans for two million petty traders in all states of the federation,” were the […]

Between 2001 and 2017, several new records and milestones, signs of the weakening post-Soviet New World Economic Order dominated by the US under the unipolar global framework of engagement were established: The developing South became […]

I made a promise last Friday in September. I stated that I would, from time to time, compare Nigeria’s South with the North and point out what one can learn from the other. My intention […]

I bet you, if the Saudis had foreseen the fallout from this Jamal Khashoggi mystery hit, they would have thought twice before embarking on such a murderous undertaking. It is interesting seeing how the disappearance […]

Intrigues, confrontation and infighting have been the lot of Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since its Executive Secretary, Usman Yusuf, assumed office. One of the latest intrigues in the scheme is its governing council’s […]

The recent re-surfacing of Nnamdi Kanu, the uncouth leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Israel, raises more questions than answers: How did he escape from the raid by Nigerian security forces on […]

‘‘Ifa kin puro, ifa kin se eke’’ (literarily translated as Ifa oracle neither lie, nor gossip) is a Yoruba mythology that has become a word made flesh which dwells among us (Nigerians) as it fittingly […]

No matter how much President Muhammadu Buhari strives at every critical juncture to portray his so-called anti-corruption fight as incontestable reality, it often unravels as an unrelieved charade before the citizens. This irrevocable futility has […]

If there is anyone who wants to know why Lagos State was ranked recently by The Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine as the third worst city for humans to live in the world, […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s recent claim that his biggest surprise as the number two man was the scale of grand corruption in the Nigeria public service raises an eyebrow. As someone who cut his political […]

Monday’s refutation of rumours that there were ongoing moves to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, is meant to reassure Lagosians that the All Progressives […]

HUNGER is ravaging the land. Worse, there is no end in sight as the latest forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organisation strongly projects that Nigeria’s efforts to achieve zero hunger by 2030 are being […]

Some mischievous individuals are saying in jest that the Minister of Labour of Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is pint-sized, and that he acts like Goofy, one of the dwarfs who took in Snow White, the […]

“But when workers go on strike, the principle of ‘No work, no pay’ will also be applied because that principle is enshrined in that same Section 43 of the Labour Act. That section says for […]

The tripod of poverty, illiteracy and unfettered religious influence has cost the country more lives than we may realise, since poor people are more likely to be radicalised and exploited by others to carry out […]