Issues/Policy

Hitmen are inherently brutal. But they are not usually stupid. If anything, most are cowardly. They operate under the stealth of darkness or the anonymity of a crowd. In Russia, for example, where prominent critics […]

It is said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. I have spent the last couple of weeks discussing succession planning in the context of consciously populating your talent pool […]

Ayo Fayose, his second governorship of Ekiti State ended, showed up at the EFCC two weeks ago as he had promised. It was October 16, and hours after his predecessor also became his successor. By […]

I want to do a letter to the All Progressives Congress (APC) but there is a little problem. I don’t know to whom to address the letter. It would have been perfect addressing it to […]

A Chieftain of the PDP, Chief Olabode George, on Saturday, advised the Minister of Power, Works & Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to leave the issue of who becomes President in 2023 and focus on improving […]

BY MATHEW AYIBAKURO In October 2017, the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, announced that the Nigerian Government had reached an agreement with the United Kingdom for the repatriation of $85 million from […]

God will surely reward your labour of love for the girls you are mentoring! He will grant, give and grace you with spiritual, physical and mental strength daily for the next phase of this call, […]

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 […]