Issues/Policy

Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Introduction Nigeria can be such a funny country, sometimes funny ‘ha ha’, and also funny in terms of being bizarre. When there are pressing matters that require attention, we waste precious time on making […]

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) which Chinua Achebe the Immortal founded over four decades ago concluded its 44th Convention on Saturday, November 1, 2025. The Convention held for four days: from Thursday, 30, to […]

President Donald Trump of the United States of America, a man not given to conventional international diplomacy, announced last week, toeing the line of Senator Ted Cruz and co., that Nigeria was guilty of genocide […]

Sir: It is another day in Nigeria with another crisis of certification and a veritable crucible of chaos for certainty. Uche Nnaji is the latest high-ranking Nigerian official to have his political head chopped off […]

Convocation ceremonies that universities and other tertiary institutions hold to celebrate the achievements of their graduands are more than mere ceremonies. They are signifiers of a significant event about to take place. That event has […]

Apart from tariffs, another word that the Trump presidency is fond of is genocide. First, it was South Africa. During South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House last May, President Donald Trump […]

EARLIER in the week, two renowned economists, one a businessman and the other a traditional ruler used the occasion of a book launch by the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference in Abuja to speak […]

On October 24, 2025, President Bola Tinubu announced a sweeping reshuffle of Nigeria’s top military hierarchy, appointing General Olufemi Oluyede as Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General Waidi Shaibu as Chief of Army Staff, Air Vice-Marshal […]

As Nigeria’s digital economy grows into a continental force, the country stands at a crossroads, caught between rapid innovation and a rising wave of cybercrime that threatens its digital future. Home to fintech unicorns like […]

Yobe’s 2023 election upset was not a rejection of the APC it was a cry for inclusion. The road to reclaiming the state runs through Yobe South. A Political Wake-Up Call In the 2023 general […]

The choice to marry someone younger, especially across a different generation, can often bring fresh ideas and new experiences for the couple, despite the age gap, often spanning ten years or more. A man or […]

Nigerians may be hard-pressed but military takeover of power must be left out of their options, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE Dateline: April 22, 1990; Lagos, Nigeria. It was a Sunday. I left my house in […]

The recent press statement issued by the All-Progressives Congress (APC), titled “APC Should Learn from History – A Sordid Display of Editorial Bias”, reads more like a reflexive political outburst than a reasoned response. It […]

Monday, October 20, 2025, was the fifth anniversary of the #EndSARS protest that claimed scores of lives and humongous public and private assets. In my column of October 28, 2020, I had observed that “The […]

Citizenship is more than a legal status. It is a covenant between the individual and the state, a badge of belonging, which is perhaps most visibly represented by the national passport. The passport is therefore […]

The recent violent disruption of political gatherings in states brings to mind another tumultuous period of political violence as the 2027 electoral climate gathers momentum. Although ours is a country not unfamiliar with the brutish […]

It was once said that when two kings meet, the earth trembles. Today, when two Yoruba monarchs clash, it is not the earth that shakes, but the very foundation of our cultural heritage. And the […]